Sentences with phrase «separate corruption trial»

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

Both Silver and Skelos lost their powerful posts earlier this year, and more recently their legislative seats after convictions in separate corruption trials.

Not exact matches

De Blasio's strenuous efforts to discredit Harendra Singh, who pleaded guilty to bribery in a city corruption case, could factor in a separate trial of two former Republican Long Island elected officials.

Good - government advocates had called the session Albany's «Watergate» moment after the ex-Senate and Assembly leaders were convicted in separate federal corruption trials.

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

Both men were convicted last year of corruption charges in separate trials in Manhattan federal court.

Both were arrested the following year on federal corruption charges and convicted in separate trials.

But then, he's got bigger troubles: He's awaiting trial on separate corruption charges in Manhattan federal court, where he's charged with illegally using a nonprofit group — one that he had supported with taxpayer contributions as a City Council member — in his political campaigns.

De Blasio's opponents had an opening in the campaign's final weeks after Jona Rechnitz, a major donor to the mayor's 2013 campaign, gave sordid testimony in a separate federal corruption trial of the access to the mayor that his money bought him.

The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni came shortly after lawyers from four separate defense teams rested their case Monday in the corruption trial of Percoco and three business executives.

Bharara's office convicted ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos of corruption in separate trials last year.