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.
An out - of - town judge is scheduled to unseal an indictment Thursday in a Mineola courtroom that sources said details charges against multiple parties, including former Town Supervisor John Venditto, a Republican who also has been charged in
a separate federal corruption indictment.
Venditto — who already is facing
separate federal corruption charges — surrendered to prosecutors just before 7 a.m..
The business was registered with the Department of State last November — a month after Monserrate was indicted on
separate federal corruption charges — under the name «Papaya Pizza Corp..»
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.
Not exact matches
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.
The Nassau district attorney's investigation is
separate and not coordinated with a continuing
federal investigation into
corruption in Oyster Bay, the sources said.
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.
Separate grand juries have reportedly begun hearing evidence related to the state and
federal corruption investigations into the de Blasio administration.
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.