Sentences with phrase «speaker after his arrest»

He stepped down as speaker after his arrest, and he has pleaded not guilty to charges that include honest services fraud and extortion under the color of official right.

Not exact matches

The longtime speaker of the Assembly, Silver was removed from the post after his arrest on corruption charges, but remained in the chamber pending the outcome of his trial.

The former speaker, who was removed from this office after his January arrest, generally remains sociable, and can frequently be seen conversing with other members or mingling in the members - only break room in a hallway outside his former office.

Niblack, who was hired in 2008 as former Council speaker Christine Quinn's budget chief, was arrested in February after his domestic partner accused him of attacking him with a statue and a picture frame inside his Upper West Side apartment.

The proposals come two and a half weeks after the Democratic Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver was arrested on corruption charges, and one week after he resigned as speaker.

He resigned as speaker Jan. 27, 2015, five days after the FBI arrested him in the public corruption case.

This morning, Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the State Assembly, was arrested on corruption charges, hours after the Times broke the story — and barely half a day after Silver sat smiling onstage as Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered his 2015 State of the State address and was featured by the governor in humorous slides as one of the «Three Amigos» atop state government.

Silver was essentially ousted as speaker six days after he was arrested.

Republicans in the New York State Senate are in talks with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about legislative ethics reforms as demands for changes mount after the recent arrest of the former Assembly speaker.

The proposals come two - and - a-half weeks after the Democratic Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested on corruption charges, and one week after he resigned as speaker.

Mr. Silver, who resigned on Monday as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges in January, was accused of essentially facilitating the harassment by not acting forcefully to prevent Mr. Lopez's behavior as leader of the Assembly, which was also named as a defendant in one of the lawsuits.

He stepped down as speaker after his January arrest, but he retains the lower Manhattan Assembly seat he has held for nearly 40 years.

Silver stepped down from his speaker post after his January arrest but retained his Assembly seat

Skelos is expected to step aside as majority leader — but not as a senator — if arrested, much like Assemblyman Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) did as speaker in February after Bharara arrested him on corruption charges.

The statement comes after the elevation of Carl Heastie to the speaker's post, who is the first black lawmaker to hold the position following former Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest on corruption charges.

Cuomo, who has said ethics changes are a top priority as he negotiates a budget, said the agreement matches the five principles he sketched out after the arrest and ouster of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver.

Silver, who gave up his speaker position but retained his assembly seat after his January arrest, has been on trial simultaneously with state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son on charges that the Republican badgered companies to give his son more than $ 300,000 in exchange for his political support.

WASHINGTON — A day after Mayor Bill de Blasio defended Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as a «man of integrity,» he acknowledged that the speaker's arrest on corruption charges would create a «different» atmosphere in Albany and the upcoming legislative session.

Stewart - Cousins said that the usual «three men in a room» negotiation process, which for decades had been dominated by a cast of mostly white men, was ripe for reform after an arrest that led to a change in Assembly speakers.

Secondary jobs held by state legislators have come under increased scrutiny in recent years after the arrests of former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, Senator Carl Kruger and Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio on charges related to their outside income.

The Assembly's proposal was released after business hours on Friday by Speaker Carl E. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, who rose to power last year after the arrest of the past speaker, Sheldon Silver, who was convicted of federal corruption charges in November.

Almost immediately after news of the arrest was reported, the speaker's regular Republican critics were joined by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and State Senator Brad Hoylman, a reformist Democrat from the West Side of Manhattan, in calls to step down.

NEW YORK CITY — Sheldon Silver is out as speaker of the Assembly just days after his arrest on federal corruption charges in an alleged bribery and kickback scheme.

His colleagues had forced him to resign as Assembly speaker days after he was arrested in January, though he had maintained his elected office.

Silver resigned as Assembly speaker after his January arrest.

After Silver was effectively removed from his leadership post in February, days after his arrest, the chamber elected a new leader, leaving the former speaker to serve as a conspicuous back - benAfter Silver was effectively removed from his leadership post in February, days after his arrest, the chamber elected a new leader, leaving the former speaker to serve as a conspicuous back - benafter his arrest, the chamber elected a new leader, leaving the former speaker to serve as a conspicuous back - bencher.

Silver was first elected in 1976, and served as speaker for two decades, before resigning his leadership post after he was arrested earlier this year.

The goal of the government and the defense is to identify jurors who might have made up their minds about the guilt or innocence of Mr. Silver, who was forced to step down as speaker of the New York Assembly after his arrest in January.

The Republican said things might be different if Assemblyman Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) hadn't been forced by his Democratic members to step down as speaker early this year after his arrest on federal corruption charges.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Assembly's speaker pro tempore said this morning Democrats have no plans to remove Speaker Sheldon Silver as leader of the chamber after his arrest this morning on corruption charges.

Heastie replaced Sheldon Silver, who recently stepped down as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges.

That description could apply to Carl Heastie, who on Tuesday replaced Silver less than two weeks after the former speaker's arrest to face federal corruption charges.

Mr. Skelos's decision on Monday came after his counterpart atop the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, was forced to give up his post as speaker after his own arrest on federal corruption charges in January.

He replaced Sheldon Silver, who resigned as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges.

The judge in Mr. Silver's case, Valerie E. Caproni, found in 2015 that Mr. Bharara's office had orchestrated a «media blitz» after the speaker's arrest.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who has held the speakership since 1994, is expected to be replaced as speaker on Monday after being arrested last week on federal corruption charges.

The strength of those relationships appeared to be on display last week, when a handful of senior members emerged from a closed - door meeting shortly after Silver's arrest to proclaim their continued support for the speaker.

The arrests came just months after federal bribery and kickback charges led Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, to step down from his position as speaker.

The scramble for Assembly votes was briefer than expected; originally, February 10 was picked as the date to elect a speaker to replace Sheldon Silver, who will resign today after he was arrested on corruption charges.

But after his arrest, his fellow Democrats decided he could no longer continue as the speaker.