Pedro Espada Jr., the former State Senate majority leader who is facing federal corruption charges, strode into federal court in Brooklyn on Friday with a far different demeanor than he did four months ago. In December, Mr. Espada was subdued as he was arraigned on charges of embezzlement and conspiracy. But on Friday he was [...]
Pedro Espada is the State Senator representing New York’s 33rd District in the northwest Bronx, as well as the Democratic Majority Leader. He’s also a businessman under investigation by the state attorney general for improper mixing of private and political funds – as well as one half of the Democratic team that brought the Senate [...]
The investigation into a non-profit run by State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada reveals violations. An affidavit filed today by State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says a nine-month probe into a Bronx clinic founded by Espada shows apparent violations of New York’s not-for-profit corporation law. The violations cited in the affidavit include sharing money with [...]
The attorney general’s office is investigating if Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. submitted false statements in a grant application seeking $3 million from the state for his health care company. The state Department of Health confirmed Wednesday it referred concerns about the Espada organization to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office after reviewing the vendor [...]
Democrats in New York’s Senate not only gave Sen. Pedro Espada a lucrative post after he allowed them to regain majority control of the chamber. They also approved $350,000 to hire his friends and give raises to staffers. Democrats lured Espada back in July, a month after a Republican-dominated coalition gave him a leadership post [...]
The son of New York Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. is expected to resign from his new $120,000-a-year Senate job after prosecutors said they were investigating the hiring. Senate Democrats’ spokeswoman Selvena Brooks says that former Assemblyman Pedro G. Espada is expected to resign on Thursday. An official in Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office [...]
Turncoat Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. of The Bronx is reaping even more spoils for his return to the Democratic fold: a specially created $120,000-a-year Senate job for his son. A spokesman for the Senate majority leader defended the Senate’s hiring of Pedro G. Espada for the newly created post of “deputy director of intergovernmental relations,” [...]
Turncoat state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. is pulling in campaign contributions hand over fist – much of it from developers and landlords – but he seems to forget how he spent it. Espada, a Bronx Democrat known for not disclosing his campaign activity, raised $159,400 in the first six months of the year, his latest [...]
Switching sides — twice — and holding up state government for a month apparently has its privileges. Double double-crossing Bronx Sen. Pedro Espada Jr .won $2 million in pork-barrel spending for his district, despite jilting the Democratic Party and grinding Senate business to a halt during a leadership fight, documents released yesterday showed. The Senate [...]
Bronx Sen. Pedro Espada’s return gives Democrats a 32-30 majority for the first time since the June 8 coup. As part of the deal, Espada takes the title of Senate majority leader. Espada’s move comes after Democratic Gov. David Paterson’s shocking decision to appoint a lieutenant governor to preside over the Senate, giving his party [...]
