Sentences with phrase «sentenced in federal corruption cases»
Last week, two former New York State Assembly Democrats were sentenced in federal corruption cases.
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As he did in the wake of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's sentencing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a brief statement in response to the five year sentence handed down by a federal judge in the corruption case of ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.
A Shelton developer, James Botti, was sentenced to six years in prison in the federal corruption case, but Lauretti was never charged in the case.
The conviction and hefty sentence — the second highest for a state politician convicted of corruption in the past decade — has capped a stellar run of Albany and New York City corruption cases brought by Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara and federal authorities in Brooklyn.
The new poll follows a month in which former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were sentenced to federal prison after they were convicted on corruption charges in separate cases last year.
A federal judge in 2010 sentenced him to 18 months in prison for evading taxes on payments he got from a developer working on government contracts in his legislative district who also was at the center of the New Cassel corruption case the Nassau district attorney's office prosecuted.
Former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison in a federal corruption case that prosecutors said «struck at the core of democratic governance» and polluted the institution where he wielded immense power.
William F. Boyland Jr., a former state assemblyman from a political dynasty in Brooklyn, was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in federal prison in a high - profile corruption case.