Sentences with phrase «sentences on corruption»

Both former leaders of the legislature are awaiting prison sentences on corruption convictions involving their outside income.

Skelos, who was forced from office in December, is due to be sentenced on corruption charges later this month.

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge set former state comptroller Alan Hevesi's sentencing on corruption charges for Friday after four other delays in the Forest Hills resident's sentencing.

The former - No. 2 man in the state Senate was begging a federal judge to have «mercy» and not send him to prison when he's sentenced on a corruption rap...

Efrain Gonzalez, Shirley Huntley, Pedro Espada Jr. and ex-Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. — offer advice to their onetime colleagues now awaiting sentencing on corruption charges.

Ms. Cancel praised Mr. Silver, who is due for sentencing on corruption charges on April 13, after her nomination.

Disgraced former state Senate majority leader Malcolm Smith was scheduled to turn himself in last week so he could begin his seven - year jail sentence on corruption charges, but he got his surrender date pushed back more than six weeks by claiming that he must be checked for prostate cancer by his own doctor before prison, court papers show.

Disgraced former state Senate majority leader Malcolm Smith was scheduled to turn himself in last week so he could begin his seven - year jail sentence on corruption charges, but he got...

There's also an election in lower Manhattan to replace former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is scheduled to be sentenced on corruption convictions in a few weeks.

Seen though a courthouse window on May 12, 2016, Dean G. Skelos, the former majority leader of the New York State Senate, waits in a security line to enter federal court in Manhattan for his sentencing on corruption charges.

Sun Zhengcai, a former top Communist Party official once seen as a possible successor to Chinese President Xi Jinping, received a life sentence on corruption charges — a punishment state media portrayed as lenient.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich waved goodbye to supporters in 2012, bound for a medium - security facility in Littleton, Colo., for his 14 - year sentence on corruption charges.

Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum to be sentenced on corruption conviction, Canadian Press

Not exact matches

Mehdi was sentenced to 10 years on corruption and security charges.

Who would have imagined that today I would be writing freely, praying freely, breathing freely, standing on free soil, while Zhou, once nicknamed China's «security tsar,» would be sentenced to life in prison for corruption by his political enemies?

Christian Solidarity Worldwide says he's being held in solitary confinement and is facing 18 new charges, including «Mofsed - e-filarz», translated as «spreading corruption on Earth» which carries a sentence of death.

Republican former Senate Majority Dean Skelos, who was convicted in a separate corruption trial in December, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 25.

Silver in may was sentenced to 12 years in and prison and owes nearly $ 7 million in civil penalties stemming from his conviction late last year on corruption, fraud and self - dealing charges.

Republican former Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam are due in court this morning to be sentenced following their December convictions on corruption charges.

John Sampson, the 51 - year - old former leader of the Democratic conference in the state Senate, was sentenced on Wednesday afternoon to five years in prison for his corruption conviction in 2015.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno arrived at the federal courthouse about 2:40 p.m. this afternoon for his sentencing on federal corruption charges.

You simply can't see it,» Judge Gary Sharpe told ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno before sentencing him to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is also awaiting sentencing on public corruption charges, has only $ 246,608 left in his campaign account after spending $ 1.5 million in the past six months.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's retrial on corruption charges is scheduled to begin Monday in federal court in Manhattan, but his new shot at vindication is expected to be a virtual carbon copy of the 2015 version that ended in his conviction and a 12 - year prison sentence.

Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is set to be sentenced Thursday on federal corruption charges.

Former Senate Leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay over $ 334,000 in restitution after his conviction on corruption charges.

In a statement after former Senate Leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to five years in federal prison on May 12, Bharara said that the «most effective corruption investigations are those that are truly independent and not in danger of either interference or premature shutdown sentencing».

Tthe special elections on Long Island and in Lower Manhattan offer voters a chance to do the unprecedented: to replace, in the space of one day, two former members of New York State's ruling triumvirate, both of whom are scheduled to be sentenced in the coming weeks after being convicted on corruption charges.

Democrats also expect to hit on the theme of corruption, especially after the conviction and sentencing of Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, hoping the anti-incumbent sentiment helps them in down - ballot races.

It helps that the sentencings of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, both convicted last year on corruption charges, are set for April 13.

The voting wrapped up a session clouded by federal investigations into corruption and the sentencing of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) to federal prison on bribery and extortion charges.

The symposium's timeliness wasn't lost on Ravitch or other participants: Two former legislative leaders, Democrat Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and Republican Sen. Dean Skelos, are awaiting sentencing following federal corruption convictions — just the latest in a jailhouse parade of disgraced lawmakers.

Huntley, who was recently revealed to be one of at least two lawmakers who recorded their colleagues for law enforcement as part of the corruption probes, is to be sentenced on Thursday.

Skelos was sentenced to five years in prison on corruption charges in May.

With a recent poll showing that nearly 90 % of New Yorkers believe that unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government a month before former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are sentenced for public corruption, the governor and legislative leaders have an obligation to New Yorkers to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform.

Silver is set to be sentenced on May 3 after he was convicted in November of corruption stemming from his masking of bribes as legal referrals.

Former Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence's sentencing hearing on corruption related charges was delayed indefinitely on Nov. 27.

Former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver leaves federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, after being sentenced to 12 years on corruption charges.

Disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption Tuesday by a judge who said she hoped the idea of «living out his golden years in an orange jumpsuit» would keep other politicians on the «straight and narrow.»

Former New York Senate leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $ 800,000 in restitution and fines Thursday after his conviction on corruption charges.

The New York State Assembly and Senate have released budget positions that focus on taxes and spending policies, but very little on ethics reform, even though both former leaders of the legislature face prison sentences over corruption convictions.

Federal prosecutors sent indicted state politician Sheldon Silver a letter laying out his likely sentence if he pleaded guilty on all corruption charges — but he never responded, they revealed...

Silver, a Democrat convicted last November on seven corruption counts, should serve a sentence that reflects the «unprecedented magnitude, duration, and scope of his abuse of power,» Manhattan federal prosecutors said in the sentencing memo.

U.S. prosecutors are recommending that former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver receive a sentence «substantially in excess» of 10 years in prison for his conviction on federal corruption charges late last year.

The memo cited «the egregiousness of Silver's conduct and the need for deterrence» in suggesting a sentence «greater than any sentence imposed on other New York state legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.»

«The Senators and House of Representatives members should first make corruption or stealing of public funds attract death sentence, they should introduce a strict law on asset forfeiture for persons who corruptly and criminally enrich themselves.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who endured for decades as one of the most powerful figures in state government, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in November on multiple corruption charges.

Former New York State Senator Dean Skelos of Long Island was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison and a $ 500,000 fine over corruption charges, while serving as majority leader.

Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was convicted on multiple felony - level corruption charges in 2015.

Federal prosecutors sent indicted state politician Sheldon Silver a letter laying out his likely sentence if he pleaded guilty on all corruption charges — but he never responded, they revealed in court Friday.