Jimmy Kuang Zui Meng is a Chinese-Taiwanese American former politician,who served as a member of the New York State Assembly. A Democrat,Meng represented the 22nd Assembly District in Flushing,Queens from 2005 to 2006. He is the first Asian American to have served in the New York State Legislature. Meng pleaded guilty to wire fraud in 2013.
Operation Boptrot,also referred to as Boptrot,was an investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into corruption among the Kentucky General Assembly,the Commonwealth's legislature. The operation was highly successful,with the investigation culminating in several indictments in 1992,leading to the conviction of more than a dozen legislators between 1992 and 1995. The investigation also led to reform legislation being passed in 1993.
David Ira Weprin is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly,representing District 24 in Queens since 2010,when he replaced his brother Mark. In the Assembly he has supported progressive causes,such as a surcharge on millionaires,and granting immediate parole to prisoners who have reached 55 years of age and served 15 years in prison,regardless of their sentence. He was previously a member of the New York City Council,representing the 23rd district. He is also a former Deputy Superintendent of the NY State Banking Commission (1983–87).
Alan George Hevesi was an American politician who served as a New York State Assemblyman from 1971 to 1993,as New York City Comptroller from 1994 to 2001,and as New York State Comptroller from 2003 to 2006. Hevesi was originally from Queens,New York City.
Mims Hackett Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician,who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2007,where he represented the 27th Legislative District,which covers the western portion of Essex County.
Anthony Chiappone is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly,where he represented the 31st Legislative District from 2004 to 2006 and again from 2008 until his resignation in 2010.
Neil M. Cohen is an American Democratic Party politician,who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1994 to 2008 where he represented the 20th Legislative District. He had also served in the Assembly from the 21st District from 1990 to 1992.
Larry B. Seabrook is a former New York City Councilman from District 12 in New York City which covers the Co-op City,Williamsbridge,Wakefield,Edenwald,Baychester,and Eastchester sections of the Northeast Bronx,from 2002 until 2012. A Democrat from Co-op City in the Bronx,he has held several elected offices:With his election to the city council in 2001,Seabrook became the first African-American politician to hold office in three separate legislative branches of government,both on municipal and statewide levels.
Hiram Monserrate is an American politician and felon who served in the New York State Senate from 2009 until his expulsion in 2010. A Democrat,he previously served on the New York City Council from 2002 through 2008.
Carl Kruger is an American convicted felon and politician from New York. A Democrat from Brooklyn,he represented District 27 in the New York State Senate. Kruger was first elected to the State Senate in 1994 and later became Chair of the Senate Social Service Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. In December 2011,he resigned from the State Senate and pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges. In 2012,Kruger was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Anthony S. Seminerio was an American politician from New York.
William Frank Boyland Jr. is an American convicted felon and former politician from the state of New York. A Democrat,Boyland represented District 55 (Brooklyn) in the New York State Assembly and was first elected in a 2003 special election. He forfeited his Assembly seat on March 6,2014 due to his conviction on federal felony charges related to extortion,bribery,and official corruption,and he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Richard Robinson "Rob" Walker was the Chief Deputy County Executive of Nassau County,New York from January 2010 until January 2018. He was previously a Republican member of the New York State Assembly representing the 15th Assembly District,which includes parts of central Nassau County including Hicksville,Westbury and Syosset.
Alberto Coutinho is a former American Democratic Party politician,who represented the 29th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from May 1997 to January 1998 and again from January 8,2008,until his resignation on September 11,2013. He was eventually sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to theft and falsifying records,thus ending his career in New Jersey politics.
Thomas J. Spota III is a former American attorney and politician,who served as the District Attorney of Suffolk County,New York,serving from 2002 to late 2017,but was disbarred on June 10,2020. Spota resigned November 10,2017,after he was indicted on federal charges of obstruction of justice in the investigation of Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke. Spota was subsequently found guilty and sentenced to five years in federal prison and fined $100,000.
William C. Brennan was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Alan Hochberg is an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Terrence (Terry) Goggin is an American author,businessman,educator,and politician in the state of California. He was born in Los Angeles CA in 1941 to George T. Goggin,a successful Hollywood lawyer. and Mary Adelaide Hare,a writer and homemaker and personal assistant to California oil baron Edward L. Doheny. He served in the California State Assembly as a Democrat from 1974 to 1985. After leaving State government he attended to his business interests and the practice of law. After he was accused of defrauding investors in a chain of coffee shops,Goggin pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering in December 2019,and was sentenced to one year and one day in prison in February 2021.
Pamela Harris is a Democratic politician who was a member of the New York State Assembly representing the 46th Assembly District from 2015 to 2018,covering the neighborhoods of Bath Beach,Bay Ridge,Brighton Beach,Coney Island,Dyker Heights,and Seagate,in Brooklyn,until she resigned under a fraud indictment.
E. Stewart "Stu" Jones,Jr. is a former attorney from Troy,New York. E. Stewart Jones,Jr. is the third generation in the Jones patriarchy to have had practiced law with notoriety,after father E. Stewart Sr. and grandfather Abbott. E. Stewart Jones,Jr. was the second Jones to attended Williams College,after his father,where he majored in American History and Literature Jones was described as being "the gold standard for the local bar" by longtime friend and attorney William Dreyer.
