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The new poll follows a month in which former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were sentenced to federal prison after they were convicted on corruption charges in separate cases last year.

Not exact matches

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says he still needs to consult with the other legislative leaders before he can set a date to vote on a replacement for former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to serve out the remainder of the term, which ends December 31.

Skelos is the second former legislative leader to win his case on appeal in the past two months, after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling revised the laws under which they were convicted.

Republican Chris McGrath, who lost his bid in April for the Senate seat held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is calling for first passage of the amendment, which is mired in legislative gridlock in the Assembly and Senate.

But, government reform groups are in favor of the pay raise, as long as it is accompanied by reforms — including banning or severely restricting outside income (which factored into the corruption convictions of two former legislative leaders), and eliminating extra stipends for committee chairs and leadership posts.

The county executive also served on the now - defunct corruption - busting Moreland Commission, which drew the attention of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara after the governor shut it down early in exchange for an ethics reform deal with legislative leaders.

Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, the former leader of the I.D.C., spent the hour before the session rearranging décor in his new office on the sixth floor of the legislative office building, three floors beneath the spacious office from which the Republicans had wasted no time in ejecting him after his defection.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says he still needs to consult with the other New York legislative leaders before he can set a date to vote on a replacement for former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to serve out the remainder of the term, which ends December 31.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he still needs to consult with the other legislative leaders before he can set a date to vote on a replacement for former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to serve out the remainder of the term, which ends Dec. 31.

The measures are being pushed for nearly two months into the legislative session, which comes after a year in which both the former speaker in the Assembly and ex-Senate majority leader were convicted in separate corruption cases.

On Monday during a conference call about the storm plans, a Cuomo aide interjected when a reporter asked the governor about Bharara's legacy (which includes upending state government through his prosecutions of the former legislative leaders, Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver).

Federal prosecutors have said they will seek to retry Silver and Skelos next year, though it's not clear which new charges the former legislative leaders would face.

Former legislative leaders John McKinney and Bill Dyson launched a bipartisan campaign Monday which they hope will fix the education funding formula in Connecticut.

He pointed to former Gov. Hugh L. Carey, a Democrat, who was able to push through a capital improvement program for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the city's transit system, in 1981 only after conceding to a demand by Republican legislative leaders for an independent monitor.

Former legislative leaders John McKinney and Bill Dyson launched a bipartisan campaign Monday which they hope will fix the education funding formula in Connecticut.