OVERTURNED CONVICTIONS LOOM. NYT. “The legal turn of events in the cases against Sheldon Silver and Dean G. Skelos, the two former New York State legislative leaders, is almost certain to resonate in another corruption case unfolding just across the Hudson River in the federal courthouse here where the defendant is United States Senator Robert […]
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ADS REVEALED. ABC. “Several anti-immigrant messages with an explicit pro-Trump slant are included among the 3,000 pieces of Russian-linked political content Facebook plans to turn over to Congressional investigators, ABC News has learned.” REQUESTS TO TESTIFY. GIZM. “The House and Senate Intelligence Committees have asked executives from major tech companies to appear in open […]
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SKELOS CONVICTION TOSSED. NYT. “A federal appeals panel on Tuesday overturned the 2015 corruption convictions of Dean G. Skelos, once the powerful majority leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, toppling the final bookend of what had been historic, back-to-back convictions of two of Albany’s most entrenched […]