Sentences with phrase «today on corruption»
The same can't be said about some other possible replacements to Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R - Rockville Centre, who was arrested today on corruption charges.
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The New York Times is reporting today that assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver may be arrested today on corruption charges.
But Mr. Silver's arrest today on corruption charges may hamper Mr. de Blasio's ability to rely on Mr. Silver to advocate for his city, observers say.
The husband of Monroe County executive Maggie Brooks was arrested today on corruption charges.
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Now USA Today owner Gannett is working on a podcast featuring Operation Silver Shovel, a major FBI sting that targeted political corruption in Chicago in...
This reminds me of the way the church deals with critical issues today such as women's rights, racism, sexual abuse, sexuality and gender, same - sex marriage, corruption among its leaders, and so on.
Who would have imagined that today I would be writing freely, praying freely, breathing freely, standing on free soil, while Zhou, once nicknamed China's «security tsar,» would be sentenced to life in prison for corruption by his political enemies?
By observing the world stage of today and placing it according to the Scriptures on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and science we're witnessing today, and yet, seeing such corruption of human character....
A spaldeen — a corruption of Spalding, the signature that is on the ball — is pink and about the size of a tennis ball, and is as prevalent today as it was 20 years ago.
There is a piece on Untold Arsenal today alleging that our injury crisis is entirely due to deliberate fouling and / or referee corruption.
The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.
Democratic AG hopeful Sean Coffey welcomed Staten Island DA Dan Donovan to the race today with a strongly - worded statement that deems the Republican «ill - prepared» to fight public corruption and take on Wall Street.
A jury today found ex-Queens Councilman Dan Halloran guilty on all five counts of the corruption charges he faced stemming in part from his role in a bribery scheme to sell the GOP line in the 2013 NYC mayoral primary.
«Juxtaposing the corruption that has recently been exposed to our topic of discussion today, brings so much to deliberate on because it is universally recognized that increased access to justice depends on public confidence in the justice system.
A NYC - based reader call in to report that he had received a mysterious robocall today on his cellular phone that appeared to be from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's corruption - busting Moreland Commission and name checked a Bronx assemblywoman whose dubious slot machine winnings have been making headlines of late.
The city comptroller campaign of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer released a Spanish - language TV ad today that focuses his heavily on low - income workers and his cursade against Wall Street corruption.
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's re-trial on federal corruption charges starts in Manhattan today.
Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, and seven co-defendants were arraigned today on federal corruption charges.
«It is my humble honor to stand here today as a candidate for governor, as a mayor of the largest city but also as an imperfect human being,» said Ganim, who spent seven years in prison on federal corruption charges.
Citing a «culture of corruption,» Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone demanded district attorney Thomas Spota, who he described as the head of a «criminal enterprise,» resign following the latest investigative story published by Newsday today detailing the DA's office failure to prosecute crimes revealed on a wiretap.
«Today's ruling is proof that we can not rely solely on federal prosecutors to clean up our state's corruption,» Kaminsky added.
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke), and Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I - Schoharie) today called for a «Spirit of «76» revolt by rank and file state legislators to clean up corruption and break the stranglehold on the Capitol that's been exerted by powerful leaders who time after time have prevented common sense reforms from becoming law in New York.
«There is a very bizarre and uncharacteristic developments in our country today that we are being told that the BNI is acting in a manner that we don't only smell, but we can sense a cover up in respect of the matter of the selling of contaminated oil by BOST which matter bothers on fraud, corruption and abuse of office.
Several Rockland County and New York City - based lawmakers were arrested by federal authorities on corruption charges today.
The Green Party said today that the Democrats deal on ethics reform is too little too late and will not end the culture of corruption that dominates Albany.
Still, Mr. Brafman added, «in today's climate, defendants facing political corruption charges must be concerned about potential juror bias that may be based more on perception than fact.»
State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was arrested last week on federal corruption charges, is expected to step down from his leadership position later today, according to multiple reports.
The second half of New York's legislative session begins today and it's likely to be dominated by the response to on going bribery and corruption scandals that came to light while lawmakers were on spring break.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the Observer today that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is «late in the day» with the massive End New York Corruption Now Act ethics proposal he released earlier this week, given that the legislative session will end on June 17.
«Today, we are a state that is transformed and once again the progressive capital of the world,» Cuomo continued, failing to mention the convictions on corruption charges of the former leaders of the «progressive» capital's Legislature, the state's bottom - of - the - barrel rating as a place to do business, and the state's massive population losses — more than 500,000 people since he took office.
Led by Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, the 23 - member caucus asked in an open letter today that the speaker replacing Sheldon Silver, who was arrested on corruption charges a week ago, consider a series of questions related to how the body is governed and requested that the next speaker establish a task force to address reform.
Today's NY Post reports on the latest news coming from the federal corruption trial of CM Larry Seabrook.
Making good on a long - standing threat, Cuomo today is expected to create a special Moreland Act Commission with subpoena power to investigate legislative corruption.
«There is no doubt that Andrew Cuomo is an enabler of the bribery and corruption that is on trial here today,» Cox said.
Norman Seabrook, the powerful and politically connected head of the NYC Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, was arrested today on federal corruption charges — including taking a $ 60,000 payoff delivered in a designer bag.
The corruption allegations which were made against the Mahama - led NDC government almost on a daily basis contributed in part to the NPP winning the elections and being in government today.
«To be clear, we all want comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing at the core and we feel public financing is the real game changer, but we're hearing a lot of myths around public financing in particular and trying to connect that to corruption in a bad way as opposed it to being a solution so we wanted to focus on that today,» he said.
Here's the script for the new anti-Denenberg ad, which hits the airwaves today and is similar to a past ad that said the Democratic attorney would «fit right in» with the string of Albany lawmakers busted on corruption charges:
The trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, in Federal District Court in Manhattan on an eight - count indictment that includes bribery and extortion charges is scheduled to begin today — just as the unrelated corruption case against Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the State Assembly, enters its third week.
With former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's corruption trial starting today, followed by the start of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» trial on Nov. 16, the entire culture of Albany will be in the spotlight.
Defense attorneys will make an 11th - hour decision today on whether former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos will take the stand in his and son Adam's corruption trial.
Today's New York Times article on the Moreland Commission is a disturbing documentation of the ongoing efforts by Governor Cuomo and his staff to prevent an independent investigation into corruption at the State Capitol.
RYE BROOK, N.Y. — As Andrew Cuomo prepared to accept the Democratic nomination for governor, Republicans outside the convention today started their assault on the attorney general, calling him «Prince Andrew» and saying he let Albany slip into a «culture of corruption.»
«Our investigation thus far reveals a pay - to - play political culture driven by large checks, anemic enforcement of the weak laws we have on the books, and loopholes and workarounds that make those laws weaker still,» says the report, which was released today at 6:05 p.m. by the Cuomo - appointed Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.
Dean Skelos, former New York State Senate Temporary President and Republican Majority Leader, was sentenced today in federal court on corruption charges.
Kaminsky formally launched his bid today for the district that was vacated by ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last month following his conviction on corruption charges.
A source close to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno says the Rensselaer County Republican is expected to be indicted for a second time on corruption charges sometime today.
The retrial of former Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver on federal corruption charges is set to begin today in Lower Manhattan.
FBI agents caught former GOP State Senate Leader Dean Skelos on tape discussing plans to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo and to keep the Senate Democrats «at each other's throats» by maintaining an alliance with the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference — and those tapes were played today at the ongoing corruption trial of Mr. Skelos and his son, Adam.
«Obviously, I'm frustrated today because I thought we were going to bring an abrupt halt to this culture of corruption,» Loughran told colleagues on the floor.