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Ex-NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver left jailed, bedridden and alone in final days after epic fall...
NY Post metro via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFormer Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who for decades was one of the most powerful and feared...
How late N.Y. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used elected position to reap millions from cancer...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFormer New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver died in January at age 77 while serving a 6½½-year federal prison term on bribery and money laundering charges. This excerpt from Daily News journalist ...
New York Democrats May Have Cost Their Party The House. What Happened?
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt took over a week, but Republicans clinched the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives by a...
Key Adams ally Jenifer Rajkumar eyeing run for NYC comptroller: sources
NY Post metro via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe Queens Dem, well-known for donning scarlet red dresses as she tags along with the mayor at...
NY legislators pass bill making them nation's best-paid
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJust in time for Christmas, New York legislators returned to the state capital Thursday to give...
NYC mayor, hobbled by a tough 2023, prepares to head to Albany
Politico via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams heads to the New York state Capitol this week long on needs and short on leverage with the lawmakers who will determine his fate. The New York City mayor has a relatively ...
You voted to fight corruption in NY state. But dishonest officials kept hefty pensions
Democrat and Chronicle via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoWhen New York state lawmakers passed a sweeping ethics reform package in 2011, it was hailed as a...
State ethics panel struck down as unconstitutional in Cuomo lawsuit court ruling
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSep. 11—ALBANY — The state's new independent public ethics panel, tasked with investigating and punishing abuses of power among New York's political leadership, has been ruled unconstitutional ...
Donald Trump's trial should be televised. Here's the case for courtroom transparency
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOn Day One of The Trial, the former president’s hair and skin looked darker. And his mood was dark,...
U.S. Supreme Court leans toward limiting public corruption prosecutions
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared poised to make it tougher to...