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Good government groups have pushed Cuomo to lead on reform in the wake of the Silver and Skelos convictions but the Governor has remained quiet on the issue since January.

Jacob, who was appointed to the panel by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, argued that legislators applying for exemptions from new financial disclosure rules — passed in the wake of Silver's corruption indictment earlier this year — should be allowed to submit the paperwork seeking exemptions by hand, in person, and not just by email.

Bob McManus thinks Cuomo should be very worried in the wake of the Silver conviction and Skelos» potential conviction.

The push by a JCOPE commissioner appointed by Silver to legislators applying for exemptions from new financial disclosure rules — passed in the wake of Silver's corruption indictment earlier this year — to submit the paperwork seeking exemptions by hand, in person, and not just by email, could weaken future corruption cases.

But the governor nevertheless did push in the wake of Silver's arrest last year for a package of anti-corruption, ethics and disclosure measures.

Little, Stec say legislature needs to take a serious look at pension forfeiture, leadership term limits in wake of Silver conviction more

Silver's attorney suggested that Taub's referrals — which were to a number of firms in addition to Weitz — were done in the most altruistic manner, and noted that he'd fought to retain his tenured position at Columbia despite being removed in the wake of Silver's arrest, because — as he said in his suit against the university that brought a temporary injunction against the school — he believed he had done nothing wrong.

Prof. Bennett Gershman, the Pace Law School professor who has been critical of Bharara's speech - making and TV appearances in the wake of Silver's arrest, has ties to the assemblyman's lawyer, Joel Cohen.

Not exact matches

Both gold and silver have risen in the wake of the inflation figure, and at the time of writing gold is holding steady at $ 1353.60 USD / oz in early London trade.

Even with Gold up 600 % from the 1971 low of $ 35 to the 1975 top of $ 200, most Gold and Silver shares did little to make anyone except perennial Gold and penny stock traders wake up and take notice.

In the wake of the election, one of the more interesting developments has been the sudden rise to stardom of The New York Times «young political future predictor, Nate Silver.

Never did Silver acknowledge specifically why a group of young black men would be really, really opposed to that beyond simple political differences, especially in the wake of Charlottesville.

Upon seeing the DEC's press release, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver did an about - face on hydrofracking, releasing a decidedly more positive statement than the one he sent out in the wake of the NY Times report.

Eliot Spitzer, the former governor - turned - city comptroller candidate, said in a radio interview this morning that he «didn't want to wade into» whether Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver should step down in the wake of the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal.

As he did in the wake of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's sentencing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a brief statement in response to the five year sentence handed down by a federal judge in the corruption case of ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Silver announced last night that he would introduce a resolution to begin the process of expelling the sleazy Brooklyn lawmaker in the wake of a scathing report by a state ethics committee that found Lopez sexually harassed women in his office and violated the state's Public Officers Law.

It's a key distinction as Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made disclosure of outside income and lawmakers» business partners a major component of his ethics push in the wake of Sheldon Silver's arrest on corruption charges.

The Working Families Party in an email to supporters on Monday is pushing the Legislature in the wake of the Sheldon Silver corruption scandal to enact the «number one recommendation» of the defunct Moreland Commission To Investigate Public Corruption, which it was says public financing.

Governor Cuomo's State of the State and Executive Budget proposals did not get much attention Thursday in the wake of the Sheldon Silver arrest.

«The financial crunch we are weathering in the wake of the recent recession was not caused by public school students and teachers,» Farrell wrote in a letter to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

He's calling for Sheldon Silver to step down from his post as Speaker of the Assembly in the wake of the Assemblyman Vito Lopez scandal.

Under the changes — demanded by Cuomo in the wake of the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — groups spending more than $ 5,000 lobbying municipalities with populations of more than 5,000 will have to register that activity; the previous cutoff had been populations of 50,000 or more.

Calls have been mounting for Lopez to give up both his party post and his Assembly seat in the wake of last week's announcement by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that he had censured the veteran lawmaker after a bipartisan ethics committee found he had sexually harassed two female staffers.

In the wake of the arrest of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges, many legislators and the governor have floated proposals for ethics reform.

Silver, who stepped down from his longtime position as Assembly speaker in the wake of the corruption case, was indicted on federal fraud and extortion charges in February related to claims that he took more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

«So, I think these reversals with Silver and Skelos are wake up calls that relying on federal prosecutors to clean up the mess in Albany may not be the best course of action,» said State Senator Todd Kaminsky

``... The convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wake - up call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms.»

The poll comes in the wake of a stretch of high - profile corruption charges — including those facing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — 55 percent of voters say all state elected officials should be voted out of office so new representatives can start with a clean slate.

The U.F.T. is at a significant disadvantage this session without one its most reliable allies, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is expected to step down Monday in the wake of federal corruption charges.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Embattled New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has agreed to step down by Monday of next week, in the wake of federal corruption charges.

The activist also pointed to the WFP's issuance of a «strong statement of support» in the wake of the indictment of Sheldon Silver and its backing of Cuomo's re-election in 2014 — despite widespread membership opposition — as evidence of the party's shaky future.

Following Schneiderman's fall from grace and this week's re-conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges, former Erie County Democratic Chairman Leonard R. Lenihan said doors have opened for new candidates while Schneiderman provided a «wake up call» that shines the political spotlight on reform.

Despite appearing jointly together, both Skelos and Silver are far apart on whether to allow public financing of campaigns to move forward, a coming flashpoint in the effort to overhaul campaign finance and ethics laws in the wake of two corruption scandals.

Her comments came in reaction to Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan raising the possibility of discussing changes to the state's ethics and anti-corruption measures in the wake of the guilty verdict of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's guilty verdict.

Although the Assembly Democrats have publicly put forward a united front behind Speaker Sheldon Silver in the wake of the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal, there is much «unrest» behind the scenes, and some doubt his ability to hold on to power in the long term.

Ninety - two percent of voters said in a Siena poll that corruption in state government is a serious problem (51 percent say very serious; 41 percent say somewhat serious) in the wake of the arrest and indictment of Silver.

Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R - Rensselaer), an increasingly outspoken critic of Kolb, has secretly pushed the plan to oust Silver for two years and accelerated it in recent weeks in the wake of new revelations involving Bharara's investigation of Silver, who was just re-elected as speaker last week.

Silver was fighting to keep his grip on power Monday amid widening calls for his resignation in the wake of federal corruption charges.

In a telling sign that Silver saw which way the wind was blowing in Albany, the longtime Assembly leader hinted that he was buckling on his borrowing plan in the wake of Cuomo's condemnation of it.

Adding to Flanagan's woes, the source said, is the fact that the city's real - estate industry, long a major contributor to the Senate GOP, has become skittish about contributing to the business - friendly lawmakers in the wake of revelations involving Glenwood Management, the powerful real - estate firm owned by Leonard Litwin, at the corruption trials of both Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan).

The taciturn Democrat, an accountant by trade, will be charged with uniting the diverse and unwieldy 150 - member body in the wake of Mr. Silver's resignation, a daunting task for any legislator.

Silver detailed his neighbors» many difficulties in the wake of the ruinous storm, which inundated Lower Manhattan with river water and knocked out power to tens of thousands of residents.

Silver, who has represented the Lower East Side and Downtown for decades, is not resigning from his post, but plans to step back from his speaker responsibilities temporarily, instead delegating them to a group of senior members in the wake of federal corruption charges.

In the wake of the corruption scandal that brought down former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver at the beginning of this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a package of ethics reform measures and vowed to force the Legislature's hand in accepting it as part of this year's budget deal — even if that meant shutting down the government.

Minority leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from the Bronx, said, «arrest after arrest has shattered the public's faith in good government,» and that the Legislature should act to avoid «another session of empty promises in the wake of yet another scandal,» referencing the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

In the wake of the arrest of Speaker Sheldon Silver, Democratic Assembly members held a press conference where they came out strongly in defense of their longtime leader.

Hired in the wake of Sheldon Silver's indictment, Jane Feldman says she couldn't change anything as head of the Assembly Office of Ethics and Compliance

In the wake of his arrest, Silver has temporarily stepped down from his position as speaker.

Wright, who represents Harlem and chairs the chamber's housing committee, called for «real reform of our conference» in the wake of the corruption allegations against Silver.

In 2013, the Syracuse Media Group editorial board called on Silver to resign his leadership position in the wake of the Assembly sexual harassment scandal.