After quietly being reinstated as Chair of the Consumer Protection Committee. (Monserrate was stripped of the title after being indicted for allegedly slashing his girlfriend with a broken glass. He received its $12,500 stipend in July.) Awarded staff raises and hired two new staffers, costing the state an estimated additional $150,000 a year. These staffers [...]
Embattled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate could lose his seat if he’s convicted of assaulting his girlfriend during an argument. A judge in Queens ruled Thursday that Monserrate will go to trial on Sept. 14. Both say the incident was an accident and have asked the case be dismissed. But investigators say video shows him attacking [...]
A Democratic senator stripped of a lucrative committee chairmanship after he was charged with assault has been quietly reappointed to the job in the aftermath of the coup he helped engineer in the New York Senate. Sen. Hiram Monserrate of Queens is still facing the assault charge, accused of slashing his girlfriend’s face with a [...]
State Senator Hiram Monserrate’s lawyers reportedly want his assault indictment thrown out because a police officer who was on his grand jury works in the precinct that investigated him. According to a report in today’s Daily News, one of the officers who testified before the grand jury told Monserrate’s lawyers he recognized a fellow officer [...]
A Queens judge on Wednesday refused to make public a video tape of state Sen. Hiram Monserrate dragging his wounded girlfriend from his apartment building – saying it would “poison” potential jurors. “The defendant will not get a fair trial,” Queens Supreme Court Justice William Erlbaum in ruling to block the tape from public view [...]
Embattled State Senator Hiram Monserrate is now being represented by a high-profile attorney as he fights charges he slashed his girlfriend in the face. Monserrate has replaced his old lawyer with Attorney Joseph Tacopina. Tacopina’s recent clients include actor Lillo Brancato and rapper Foxy Brown. Tacopina also defended disgraced Queens Councilman Dennis Gallagher on rape [...]
Colleagues of State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who has been indicted on six counts of assaulting his companion, have discussed setting up a fund to aid his legal defense, senators said on Thursday. The idea of helping Mr. Monserrate cover his legal expenses came up during a closed-door meeting of Senate Democrats this week. Though senators [...]
A Queens grand jury has indicted State Senator Hiram Monserrate on felony assault charges. The six-count indictment includes three felony charges of second-degree assault. Officials say the former city councilman will be arraigned later this week. Monserrate was arrested last year on felony assault charges after prosecutors say he smashed a glass over his girlfriends [...]
Add another state senator to the anti-toll bloc threatening to derail hopes of an MTA rescue. Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens), one of the first outer-borough lawmakers to back tolls on the now-free East River bridges, announced yesterday he’s pulling his support. Monserrate said he wouldn’t agree to the measure until other options, such as raising [...]
State Sen. Hiram Monserrate, who’s facing felony charges for cutting his girlfriend in the face, was slapped with a $30,102 fine yesterday for violating campaign finance rules in his City Council race. The Campaign Finance Board decided that Monserrate tried to pull a fast one by spending $15,051 on his re-election in 2004 to circumvent [...]
