The second shoe in corrupt NY politics drops! http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/politics/2015/12/11/skelos-son-guilty-on-all-counts/77160842/
ALBANY -- Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were convicted on all eight corruption counts Friday afternoon, making the former powerful lawmaker the latest New York politician to be found guilty for ethical misdeeds. The jury came back with the verdict at around 2 p.m. after starting deliberations on Wednesday. The conviction means that Skelos, the majority leader from 2008 through early 2015, is out of office — just two weeks after ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on corruption charges in a separate case. The eight counts in the Skelos case surrounded allegations that Skelos used his influence to aid his son get jobs and contracts on Long Island. "The swift convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos beg an important question – how many prosecutions will it take before Albany gives the people of New York the honest government they deserve?" U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who brought the cases against Skelos and Silver, said in a statement. Good-government groups used the two convictions of Skelos and Silver as another reason for the state Capitol to enact tougher ethics reforms. "The conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Skelos adds to the Albany's already swollen 'Rogues Gallery' of corrupt and unethical elected officials," Blair Horner, the legislative director from the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement. "New Yorkers want action, not finger pointing exercises designed to wait out public anger." Now go get Cuomo! The head mafia Don. __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmdW0wcW5jBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NDk4NzM0MTg-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlMWFvcmRkBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQ0OTg3MzQxOA--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
