Sentences with phrase «saw his corruption conviction»
Silver is not the first legislative leader to see his corruption conviction overturned on appeal.
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Former state Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam saw their federal corruption convictions overturned by a federal appeals court panel Tuesday.
In a dizzying year that saw the public corruption convictions of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos at the hands of Bharara's office, what better candidate to run in Skelos» old district than a former prosecutor with a record of fighting corruption like Kaminsky?
Former Senate Leader Joseph Bruno, a Republican, was convicted on corruption charges in 2009 — only to see the conviction vacated after the Supreme Court deemed the law used to convict him too vague.
Another famous governor across the Hudson River saw his political fortunes decline rapidly after the conviction of former top aides on corruption charges, but Cuomo's situation is markedly different from former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's, Montclair State University professor of political science Brigid Harrison told POLITICO.
Attorney Gerald Lefcourt, who defended former Assembly Speaker Mel Miller in court, sees wiggle room for the corruption conviction of ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver after Supreme Court public corruption ruling.
Bharara has already seen his record on Albany corruption tained after his high - profile convictions of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) were overturned on appeal as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that came out after their trials that limited what is considered bribery.
In a landmark year for corruption in the state legislature, 2015 saw the arrest and conviction of two of the most powerful political leaders in New York.
Gov. Cuomo, seen with then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in January before the State of the State address, said «justice was done» after Silver's conviction on federal corruption charges.
The convictions of both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on multiple federal corruption charges led many legislators and advocates to assume that this year would see significant action on government ethics reform.