Vito Lopez
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I'm proud to support Antonio Reynoso for City Council, and will do everything in my power to end Vito Lopez's career in government
I believe that the voters of the community should decide who should represent them
But can you be thrown out of office? I think there's a legal question on it. If I were Vito Lopez, I would have to look at the refusing to sit the three socialists for political reasons, when they committed no crime ... The Assembly just didn't like socialists. Today we look at that as it was, the Red Scare ... today, in our minds, that's not appropriate for a democracy.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Sheldon Silver 'deeply regrets' handling of Vito Lopez case
-- Amid intense criticism over his handling of sexual-harassment complaints against former Assemb. Vito Lopez , a visibly shaken Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver apologized at length Monday for his actions, saying it was a "glaring" failure.Silver (D-Manhattan) Read more »
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Vito Lopez scandal imperils Sheldon Silver
long political career of Assemb. Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn) has crashed and burned in phases since the middle of last year.Some of the debris hit Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan). He's admitted for months that when two female staffers claimed sex Read more »
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Letter: Assemb. Lopez should be punished
in the government was to women rather than to boys? Is it the fact that the government can act with impunity?Assemb. Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn) should be fired and put in prison, just as Sandusky was fired and put in prison. There should be zero tolerance for Read more »
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Cuomo calls for Assemb. Vito Lopez to quit
-- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Thursday called for Assemb. Vito Lopez to resign or be expelled after two explosive reports that Lopez routinely harassed and touched young female staffers. But the governor largely spared Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver from criticism Read more »
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Editorial: Vito Lopez has to go, and Albany has to change
prosecutor Daniel Donovan yesterday found no basis for criminal charges against Vito Lopez , the veteran Brooklyn assemblyman caught up in a sexual harassment case that's lurid even by Albany's laughable standards. But Donovan's report and one by the Joint Read more »
Around the web
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Vito Lopez a no show in district
the first full day as a disgraced former Assemblyman and the first full day as an incredible City Council candidate Vito Lopez learned that his next-door neighbors don’t think much of him. Residents near Lopez’ Assembly outpost in Williamsburg and his longtime 5/21/13 from New York Daily News Read more »
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More Questions In Assembly Sexual Harassment Scandal
at an already disgraced lawmaker. The state Joint Commission on Public Ethics investigated claims against Assemblyman Vito Lopez and reviewed a $103,000 secret settlement orchestrated by Silver and his stop staff to end the first claims. The commission found 5/21/13 from 13WHAM-TV Read more »
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Cuomo says JCOPE was the best he could do
comes after the Joint Commission on Public Ethics released a 67-page report detailing the sexual harassment complaints leveled at Vito Lopez, a Brooklyn lawmaker, by eight former staffers. Lopez denied any wrongdoing, but resigned from the Assembly on Monday 5/21/13 from Capital New York Read more »
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Video: Good-government groups say Silver’s mea culpa shouldn’t be final chapter
Silver admitted mistakes in the reporting of harassment complaints made by numerous aides against disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez, D-Brooklyn. He announced yesterday that an independent investigator will handle future harassment complaints and there will 5/21/13 from Albany Watch Read more »
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Kearns Leaving Democratic Conference, Calls for Silver to Step Down
- Buffalo assemblyman Mickey Kearns is leaving the Democratic Conference. Kearns is crossing the aisle in response to the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal. In addition, Kearns wants assembly leader Sheldon Silver, after a report showed Silver entered into 5/21/13 from WKBW News 7 Buffalo NY Read more »
