Sentences with phrase «top leaders of the legislature»
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U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the same federal prosecutor who brought down the leaders of the legislature, has been investigating, and on Friday evening Governor Cuomo revealed that subpoenas had been issued to a former top member of his staff, and a lobbyist who used to work for the governor when Cuomo was at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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The criminal charges against Cuomo's associates and former top aide come as both former leaders of the state legislature face lengthy prison terms over corruption convictions.
To recap the unfolding scandal so far: Both the legislature's top - ranking Democrat, Sen. Sheldon Silver of Manhattan, and former senate majority leader Dean Skelos of Nassau County, have been arrested, and Glenwood Management, a New York City real estate management firm headed by Leonard Litman, which is Cuomo's biggest donor, has been implicated.