By Kenneth Lovett
ALBANY — With former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday becoming the latest high echelon state government leader to have his conviction overturned, the scandal-weary public must be wondering what it will take to actually make a case stick.
"Today's (Skelos) ruling shakes society's faith in our justice system to the core," said state Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat and former federal prosecutor who won Skelos' seat after the Republican was forced to resign upon his December, 2015 conviction.
The last three legislative leaders convicted in recent years on corruption charges had those convictions overturned after the U.S. Supreme Court changed the rules of the game after they were already found guilty.
“New York’s long state corruption nightmare is never over,” said Brandon Muir, executive director of Reclaim New York. “This is another blow to the little faith New Yorkers have left in state government, and the justice system’s ability to protect them from corruption.”
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
ALBANY — With former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday becoming the latest high echelon state government leader to have his conviction overturned, the scandal-weary public must be wondering what it will take to actually make a case stick.
"Today's (Skelos) ruling shakes society's faith in our justice system to the core," said state Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat and former federal prosecutor who won Skelos' seat after the Republican was forced to resign upon his December, 2015 conviction.
The last three legislative leaders convicted in recent years on corruption charges had those convictions overturned after the U.S. Supreme Court changed the rules of the game after they were already found guilty.
“New York’s long state corruption nightmare is never over,” said Brandon Muir, executive director of Reclaim New York. “This is another blow to the little faith New Yorkers have left in state government, and the justice system’s ability to protect them from corruption.”
Click here for the full article.
Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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