Sentences with phrase «resigned over the corruption charges»
As lawmakers awaited the bills to be printed, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who's been on the job for only a short time, after former leader Dean Skelos resigned over the corruption charges, seems relieved to have it all behind him.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been steering clear of public events at the state Capitol recently, after a second major party legislative leader, the head of the Senate was forced to resign over corruption charges.
Carl Heastie says he knew he would be under scrutiny when he became speaker after his predecessor, Sheldon Silver, resigned over corruption charges.
Not exact matches
Three top LPCiminelli executives facing corruption charges over an alleged bid - rigging scheme for a lucrative contract to build a solar panel factory in South Buffalo have resigned from the Buffalo contractor.
Empire State Development, a state economic development agency, took over the project from SUNY Poly a year ago after the college's president, Alain Kaloyeros, was arrested on corruption charges and resigned from the university.
New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced in February, shortly after taking over for Sheldon Silver, who resigned after being hit with federal corruption charges, that he was going to hire someone to clean the place up.
Empire State Development took over control of Fort Schuyler's projects last year after SUNY Poly's president, Alain Kaloyeros, resigned after being arrested on state and federal corruption charges.
That's the on going ethics scandals that's led both leaders of the legislature to resign their posts this session over corruption charges.
The lawmaker who introduced the most bills out of a total of over 12,000 bills proposed, was former Brooklyn Senator Karl Krueger, a Democrat who resigned after pleading guilty to felony corruption charges.
Rep. Robert W. Ney's guilty plea last month on corruption charges still hangs over the Ohio campaign of his would - be Republican successor, Joy Padgett, especially because Ney still has not resigned from Congress.
Once a source of national leaders of both political parties, New York state has descended into a bizarre, riveting spectacle of corruption and political debasement, with its governor facing calls to resign as well as new charges of accepting illicit perks and lying under oath, the dean of its congressional delegation giving up his gavel over corruption charges and another House member announcing he won't run again amid allegations of sexual harassment.