Sentences with phrase «state convicted felons»

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The jury convicted him of the lesser charge of being a felon in possession of a gun, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in state prison.

Allies of convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate, who is now running for the NYC Council, say they will file a lawsuit against NYC Board of Elections for moving polling sites from his stronghold in LeFrak City in Queens.

btw, is Joe Percoco going to lose any state pension he was due now that he's a convicted felon?

btw, is Percoco going to lose any state pension he was due now that he's a convicted felon?

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has had to calculate and sign off on the pensions for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who are both convicted felons, as well as several other lawmakers convicted of felonies.

Convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate has a real shot at winning back his old City Council seat in Queens, according to Democratic insiders.

One of the dead victims was on probation and forbidden from being inside any establishment which serves alcohol; two of the eight who were shot had served state prison time on weapons or assault charges; five are convicted felons and six had been arrested by Buffalo police since 2008.

Tedisco said the Majority's plan does not contain provisions for pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, or giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for a vote and diminish the unbridled power that's been given to legislative leaders.

These include: pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, equal staffing and resources for members, and giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for an up or down vote.

Other potential reforms explored by the report and enacted in some states, though not New York, include online voting, pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds, «vote - by - mail,» and re-enfranchising convicted felons.

ALBANY — A member of the commission responsible for investigating wrongdoing by lawmakers is running a fund - raiser for former Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, the newly convicted felon who named him to the state panel.

As a convicted felon, Ganim is not eligible to obtain public financing and would need to file an appeal in state Superior Court if he is rejected by the elections commission.

Some people accuse Jeb Bush of rigging Florida 2000 by purging voter rolls of innocent voters on the pretext of them being convicted felons from out - of - state, when in fact they were not.

Others on the list included former longtime Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, state Sen. Diane Savino (D - Brooklyn / Staten Island), former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Yonkers political operative and convicted felon Anthony Mangone, and the late former state Sen. Guy Velella (D - Bronx), who resigned in disgrace after pleading guilty to bribery charges.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) will be granting all convicted felons in the state who are on parole a pardon, a move that will restore voting rights to more than 35,000 people.

Other convicted felons who receive fat pensions include former state Controller Alan Hevesi, who pleaded guilty in 2006 using state workers as his wife's chauffeur, and ex-Brooklyn Assemblyman and Democratic leader Clarence Norman, who was convicted in 2007 of selling judgeships.

Ganim is currently seeking a waiver from the State Elections Enforcement Commission because convicted felons can not receive public financing for political campaigns.

«Organizations like the New York State Correction Association, who advocate solely on inmates» behalf, continue to conduct biased research based on interviews with convicted felons whose credibility certainly can be questioned,» Miller said.

As a felon who was convicted of crimes related to his public office, Ganim can not qualify for public financing under state law if he runs for governor in 2018.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has had to calculate and sign off on the pensions for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos, who are both convicted felons, as well as several other lawmakers convicted of felonies.

Liberal state has no guts, we voted a convicted felon to office (comptroller) a few years ago, Vote in November, Vote Paladino.

ALBANY — One of the state Legislature's proposed responses this year to the cloud of corruption caused by the convictions of its former leaders is actually something lawmakers gleefully agreed to do last year, but then didn't: strip state pensions from convicted felons.

A state where a librarian in NYC is paid $ 600,000.00 a year in salary, a convicted felon former state senate leader and comptroller are collecting large pensions but we can only balance the budget by laying off our teachers.

Under current state law, convicted felons can not qualify for the public funds.

The move would be accomplished by pardoning convicted felons on parole, allowing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sidestep the State Legislature.

He's being prosecuted for allegedly stating falsely on his application for a notary public license that he wasn't a convicted felon.

But there is a major stumbling block in Ganim's way: Under state law, convicted felons can not receive public financing in a political campaign through the Citizens» Election Program.

Republicans blamed state Democrats for allowing a convicted felon to capture the mayor's office in Bridgeport.

It showed how Percoco continued to use his government office and assistant while he ran the Cuomo campaign, and how a convicted felon, Howe, had access to the state's highest officials and weighed in on personnel decisions.

It doesn't appear that state law would have stopped him, as New York has no direct prohibition on convicted felons lobbying.

Governor Cuomo and the legislature announced in March that they had agreed on a process to change the state's constitution to revoke pension of legislators who are convicted felons, but the Assembly never actually approved the deal, offering an alternative bill instead.

Convicted felon and former Bronx State Senator Efrain Gonzalez, Jr. was unable to vote last year — even though his federal term of incarceration ended last August.

And, he adds, nothing makes the Massachusetts law especially controversial; indeed, it applies almost exclusively to those convicted of violent crimes, unlike a state like Virginia which draws and banks blood from every felon passing through its prison system.

True.com screens for convicted felons and married people, and requires all members to state that they are neither.

Bellwether Prize Winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel is the fiercely imagined story of a woman struggling to navigate an America of a not - too - distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed - their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crime - and then released back into the population to survive as best they can.

The Miami Herald found that the majority of the state's mortgage professionals are unlicensed, and worse, more than 5,000 of them are convicted felons!

This past Thursday, Ms. Knaan helped introduce new state legislation, AB 243, into the California Assembly — this bill would allow a judge to bar a felon convicted of animal cruelty from owning animals for a certain period after their release.

I'm watching three: Ashcroft v. Raich, Pasquantino v. United States (does the federal wire fraud statute criminalize evading Canadian taxes) and Small v. United States (does the felon - in - possession statute prevent someone convicted in a foreign court from possessing a firearm in the United States).

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The State of Texas has filed suit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over Guidance for use of criminal records of job applicants by employers for criminal background checks that may exclude convicted felons from employment.

Today, many states allow divorce from a convicted felon who is sentenced to jail, without requiring a waiting period.

While federal government programs seek to strengthen families by providing educational classes and mental and physical health treatment for convicted felons, many states have adopted statutes that permit a prompt termination of parental rights for incarcerated felons.