Madeline Singas, Nassau County’s acting district attorney, continued her push for greater restrictions for registered sex offenders last week at a North Merrick civic group meeting. The setting was significant. Weeks earlier, police arrested a North Merrick man ...
more
By Brian Racow
|
6/3/15
|
On May 28, state Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were formally indicted on corruption charges that were brought against them by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Skelos, 67, the longtime …
more
By Alex Costello
|
5/28/15
|
On May 12, eight days after turning himself in on federal corruption charges, Dean Skelos stepped down as majority leader of the State Senate.
more
5/28/15
|
Dean Skelos is the fifth consecutive majority leader of the State Senate to be indicted. And Sheldon Silver isn’t the first speaker of the Assembly to be indicted. In the past decade, more than 30 sitting or former state officeholders . . .
more
5/28/15
|
Sen. Dean Skelos resigned Monday as the majority leader of the State Senate. He stands accused by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of official corruption.
Republican senators met Monday, before Skelos’s resignation . . .
more
5/14/15
|
After a closed-door meeting in Albany on May 11, Dean Skelos stepped down as Senate Majority Leader and will be replaced by John Flanagan (R-East Northport).
Immediately after criminal charges …
more
By Alex Costello
|
5/11/15
|
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, turned themselves over to the FBI in Manhattan on the morning of Monday, May 4 on charges of extortion, fraud and soliciting bribes.
It was …
more
By Alex Costello
|
5/4/15
|
The New York Times is reporting that Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, may be arrested as early as Monday, May 4.
Skelos, the senate's Majority Leader and a Republican from Rockville Centre, and his …
more
By Alex Costello
|
5/1/15
|
The bills came just days after it was revealed publicly that federal prosecutors are investigating Dean Skelos, Republican majority leader of the State Senate, and his son, Adam, in connection with AbTech Industries, an Arizona company that hired the latter and received a $12 million storm-water treatment contract from Nassau County, even though another company submitted a lower bid.
more
By Brian Racow
|
4/29/15
|
Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, are the targets of a federal criminal inquiry, according to sources cited by the New York Times.
more
By Alex Costello
|
4/22/15
|