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When the federal corruption trial of State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver begins next week, his lawyers are likely to be aggressive in cross-examining government witnesses, or objecting when they believe a prosecutor has gone too far.
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Fidler is running in the March 20 special election for the seat vacated by former Sen. Carl Kruger, who was forced to resign when he pleaded guilty last month to felony federal corruption charges.
First, it was the special election to fill Skelos's seat, who was ousted from office when he was found guilty of federal corruption charges stemming for helping his son's business interests.
But when Walker learned last year of a federal investigation into potential corruption in Nassau County government, including circumstances surrounding the payment, he spoke to the contractor several times «in an attempt to convince the contractor to conceal the existence of the $ 5,000 payment from the grand jury,» according to authorities.
It's up to lawmakers to pick their leader, Cuomo said, echoing similar statements he made earlier this year when former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested in an unrelated federal corruption case.
Two others were also excused when they told Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni that their hatred of corruption was so strong they wouldn't want themselves on the jury if they were on trial.
The administration of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who is not expected to seek re-election as he fights federal corruption charges, has moved more than 40 politically appointed employees into competitive union positions that will protect them from being fired when a new county executive takes office in January.
But the course of the investigation changed when the Federal Police uncovered evidence of a corruption scheme inside Petrobras, involving contractors, politicians and company executives.
Lopez was forced from the legislature after the scandal, and Silver lost his seat when he was accused in an unrelated federal corruption case, which is being retried this year.
Kaminsky and McGrath are vying for the 9th Senate District seat, which was vacated in December when Skelos was convicted on federal corruption charges.
Carl Kruger, who is currently serving time on federal corruption charges, has $ 417,310 on hand in his campaign committee that will be waiting for him when he gets out.
He represented Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who was convicted on federal corruption charges; Jerome Valcke, the former FIFA secretary general who was fired over allegations of misconduct; and Michael Steinberg, a Wall Street hedge fund manager who appealed his 2013 conviction for insider trading and was vindicated when the charges were dropped in October 2015.
Silver is said to have had a vice-like grip on his seat, and only released his hold when the courts forced him to leave upon a federal corruption conviction.
White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas got fed up with a politically connected lawyer's bid to delay the upcoming corruption trial of state Sen. Malcolm Smith over her pregnancy, suggesting in a ruling Wednesday that she lied about needing doctor - ordered bed rest when the case is scheduled to go to trial.
Sheldon Silver is a lawyer, Democratic politician, and former Speaker of the New York State Assembly, an office he held from 1994 until February of 2015, when he submitted his resignation following his arrest on federal corruption charges.
His profile took a hit recently when a federal judge castigated him for his ubiquitous media presence and sweeping statements about the «culture of corruption» in Albany, but no one in political circles is more feared.
Leonard Genova, testifying in Venditto's federal corruption trial, acknowledged to Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine Mirabile that he had not been truthful with her when she interviewed him on Jan. 28, 2016.
State Sen. John DeFrancisco is Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and was involved in the leadership battle in the Senate when former leader Dean Skelos resigned as Majority Leader after being arrested on federal corruption charges.
Ethics reform also remains unresolved, in a year when both former leaders of the legislature were sentenced to prison for corruption, and state and federal prosecutors are looking at Governor Cuomo's economic development projects.
MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — The Bronx restaurateur embroiled in the NYPD corruption scandal was not hiding out from authorities when federal investigators tracked him down and arrested him for wire fraud in Macon, GA, his lawyer insisted FEDERAL COURT — The Bronx restaurateur embroiled in the NYPD corruption scandal was not hiding out from authorities when federal investigators tracked him down and arrested him for wire fraud in Macon, GA, his lawyer insisted federal investigators tracked him down and arrested him for wire fraud in Macon, GA, his lawyer insisted Friday.
And he'll be running at a time when the Skelos conviction, and ongoing federal and local probes of Nassau County officials, have made public corruption a leading issue in the Senate district.
Singas has focused on Nassau's procurement system since last spring, when former State Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and his son, Adam, were charged in a federal corruption case that related in part to the influencing of a Nassau County contract.
NEW HAVEN — Former Gov. John G. Rowland, a political rising star who crashed a decade ago in a corruption scandal, fell again Friday when a jury in federal court found him guilty in a low - rent scheme to collect secret paychecks from rich Republican congressional candidates.
NEW YORK — The key witness in a federal corruption investigation is a Bronx political wannabe whose dreams of political office were dashed when he lost a state assembly race to a challenger who wanted to make cupcakes the official state snack.
The former - No. 2 man in the state Senate was begging a federal judge to have «mercy» and not send him to prison when he's sentenced on a corruption rap...
Former New York state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sitting in his own public - corruption trial Monday afternoon when he learned that a federal jury across the street convicted his longtime colleague, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, of trading his political influence for financial gain.
He got dragged into the federal corruption probe when he was caught on a wire offering a bribe to Nelson Castro, a Bronx assemblyman who had agreed to cooperate with the government to get out of a perjury charge.
He was abruptly fired by the firm in May 2016 when news of the federal corruption investigation broke.
The special election to replace Mr. Kruger took shape when the former state senator pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges and resigned.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo deferred on Wednesday to prosecutors who have indicating they will continue to pursue a corruption conviction of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver when asked after his conviction was tossed by a federal appeals court.
Observers will be watching to see how well he raises campaign cash, and also how he manages candidate recruitment — especially at a time when he has a number of aging members and two — including his predecessor, Dean Skelos; and his deputy majority leader, Tom Libous; facing federal corruption trials that could result in their abrupt ouster from office.
According to the NY Post, Banks was the target of an ongoing federal corruption probe when he walked away from his job as one of the most powerful men on the force.
When Silver's corruption conviction was tossed by a federal appeals court, there was one Albany veteran who knows exactly what the former Assembly speaker is going through: ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.
The move is expected to have little practical effect other than the political theater and also attempt to get Senate Republicans formally on the record when it comes to supporting their leader as he faces federal corruption charges.
Cash - strapped ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco, now at the center of a federal corruption probe, submitted resignation papers when he left the public payroll to run the governor's re-election campaign, but then didn't go through with leaving, making his decision to take private consulting clients problematic upon his return.
«It is on record that when anti graft agencies sent invitation letters to judges suspected of corruption, they had rushed to the Federal High Court to obtain interlocutory injunctions to prevent their arrest, investigation and prosecution.
Since last fall, when federal and state corruption charges were brought against former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros — who is alleged to have steered lucrative development contracts awarded by two opaque, SUNY - affiliated nonprofits to certain preferred companies — the university's use of nonprofit affiliates has come under increasing scrutiny.
Flanagan was elected Senate majority leader in May when former leader Dean Skelos resigned due to his arrest on federal corruption charges.
These are the «open» seats, as are those in three other races: District 21 Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland announced she would not be running for reelection, opening up her seat for a competitive battle; in District 44, Council Member David Greenfield made a relatively late announcement that he will not seek reelection, but he is expected to be replaced by his chosen successor and close ally Kalman Yeger; and in District 28, Ruben Wills was recently removed from office when he was convicted on federal public corruption charges — there is a crowded competition to replace him.
Judge Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan noted that even before Mr. Silver's arrest, when some of his fellow legislators had been arrested on corruption charges, he remained undeterred.
That's when he resigned after being found guilty on 16 charges of federal corruption.
Bruno served as majority leader between 1995 and 2008, when he stepped down amid a federal corruption probe.
When Manhattan's federal appeals court vacated Silver's corruption conviction last week, it left open the door to a new trial by unanimously rejecting Silver's claim that the feds didn't present enough evidence to prove he took «pay - to - play» kickbacks.
One of those was veteran Sen. Efrain Gonzalez, who had been facing his own federal corruption charges for more than two years when Espada defeated him in a 2008 primary.
Bharara demonstrated those qualities as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, notably when he called out a fellow Democrat, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for shutting down the corruption - fighting Moreland Commission for doing its job too well.
Nassau contracting has come under scrutiny since 2015 when former state Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) was convicted of federal corruption charges that included influencing the awarding of a county contract to a firm that employed his son, Adam.
Nixon is on solid ground when she hits Cuomo over corruption, especially with the recent federal conviction of his friend and former aide, Joseph Percoco, on charges of taking bribes to help Cuomo donors get contracts on economic development boondoggles.
ALBANY, N.Y. — When Sheldon Silver's corruption conviction was tossed by a federal appeals court, there was one Albany veteran who knows exactly what the former Assembly speaker is going through: ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.
As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, it came as something of a surprise when Cuomo admitted he met with federal prosecutors to talk about the corruption case involving his longtime aide, Joseph Percoco.
Flanagan was elected majority leader earlier in the month when former leader Dean Skelos resigned after being arrested on federal corruption charges.