Sentences with phrase «separate federal corruption trials»

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.

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.

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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.