Sentences with phrase «separate corruption case»

Both legislative leaders in the Assembly and Senate, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, were convicted last year in separate corruption cases.

The trial coincides with separate corruption case against one of the state's top Democrats, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Prosecutors in Bharara's office filed court papers in two separate corruption cases giving notice that they were adding the pensions of two state senators, a city councilman and two other officials to the list of property subject to forfeiture if the officials are convicted.

US Attorney Preet Bharara — who earlier this year brought separate corruption cases that toppled Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos from their leadership posts — lauded Karas» stiff sentence.

In a span of only 16 weeks, the leaders of both legislative chambers have been arrested and replaced as a result of separate corruption cases, a head - spinning change in a capital known for its inertia.

This month, two men who once reigned over Albany's political apparatus will stand trial in separate corruption cases.

The trial coincides with a similar but separate corruption case against one of the state's top Democrats, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The charges were announced six months after the arrests of Platinum executive Murray Huberfeld and Norman Seabrook, the former chief of New York City's correction officers union, in a separate corruption case in Manhattan.

The investigation comes after Libous, R - Binghamton, was named in a separate corruption case in Westchester County and was accused of arranging for a job for his son at a politically connected law firm.

The sentencing was the second solidification this month of a former legislative leader's fall from grace after ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was given 12 years in prison for his role in a separate corruption case involving the masking of bribes as legal referrals.

The measures are being pushed for nearly two months into the legislative session, which comes after a year in which both the former speaker in the Assembly and ex-Senate majority leader were convicted in separate corruption cases.

The leaders of the Senate and Assembly at the beginning of the year were ousted from power following their arrests in separate corruption cases.

Both Silver and Skelos are on trial in their separate corruption cases this month.

Calls for anti-corruption legislation grew late last year after the convictions of the former Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the Senate, in separate corruption cases.

Next week, when former Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos, R - Rockville Centre, is sentenced in his separate corruption case, it will be the Senate's doors where reporters will descend seeking reaction.

Their convictions just days apart in separate corruption cases are a major repudiation to the business - as - usual politics in Albany, particularly because their schemes involved some of the same powerful interests.

Like former Assembly Democratic Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was sentenced to 12 years in a separate corruption case last week, Skelos still will be able to reap his nearly $ 96,000 - per - year public pension