He will be sentenced in June to up to three years in prison.

Even when Ruby Diaz is right, he's still wrong. Yes, there should a Grisanti investigation. But if Grisanti is charged, the investigation should wait until after his case is adjudicated (as it did with Hiram Monserrate). However, even if Grisanti is not

“There are too many versions of what happened the night of February 10, 2012 in the Seneca Niagara Casino,” Mr. Diaz said in the statement. “There is another story floating around where many people are claiming that Senator Grisanti threw the first punch

Senator Dean Skelos should create a Senate Committee to investigate Senator Mark Grisanti. There are too many versions of what happened the night of February 10, 2012 in the Seneca Niagara Casino. It is being reported that Senator Mark Grisanti was invol

View full sizeFile photo / AP, 2011New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman answers a a question during a March 18, 2011, news conference in his New York City office. Although shrugging off the "sheriff of Wall Street" title, Schneiderman stood firm a

tool goes here ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a lead investigator into the mortgage collapse that wobbled the U.S. economy, hasn't taken the title "Sheriff of Wall Street" that one of his predecessors rode all the way to the

Former City Council Member and State Sen. Hiram Monserrate has lost his appeal of the October 2009 domestic assault conviction that helped bring down his political career. According to the Queens District Attorney’s office, the four members of the Appel

City Council Speaker Chris Quinn, who presumes to the mayoralty, has just laid $350,000 in council pork on colleague Larry Seabrook — the Bronx Democrat under federal indictment for gross misuse of previous pork disbursements. That is to say, for funneli

Albany Times Union: Another state senator is heading to prison, but will it shape the next elections cycle? Republicans are certainly claiming the sudden resignation of Sen. Carl Kruger, a Brooklyn Democrat who pleaded guilty this week to accepting brib

New York City transit riders might have taken some small measure of satisfaction from the sight of Carl Kruger resigning from the State Senate earlier this week. Pleading guilty to federal corruption charges, Kruger became the third member of the “Fare H

A New York State Appeals Court last week upheld the conviction of disgraced former state Senator Hiram Monserrate for a brutal 2008 attack on his girlfriend. The Appellate Division, Second Department, rejected Monserrate’s claim that prosecutors failed t

W ith Brooklyn Sen. Carl Kruger’s guilty plea on federal bribery charges and his resignation from the Senate, only one of the Four Amigos is still standing. Three years ago, the tiny band of Democratic senators startled the political world by launching

A mid-level appeals court yesterday upheld the conviction of disgraced former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate for a brutal 2008 attack on his girlfriend. The Appellate Division, Second Department, rejected Monserrate’s claim that prosecutors failed to prove

NEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A state appeals court has upheld the conviction of former New York state Senator Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat who was expelled from the Senate after he was found guilty of misdemeanor assault for dragging his girlfrien

Former State Senator Hiram Monserrate lost appeal of his 2009 conviction of assault on his gal pal. A state appeals court on Thursday upheld disgraced lawmaker Hiram Monserrate’s 2009 assault conviction for roughing up his girlfriend in the lobby of his