A judge sentenced former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to five years in prison Thursday for running a federal shakedown scheme that “caused immeasurable damage.” In a surprise ...

Skelos has been sentenced to five years in prison for using his political power to strong-arm companies he did business with to line the Adam’s pockets to the tune of $330,000.

The son of disgraced state Sen. Dean Skelos complained that $4,000 a month just wasn’t enough for work he wasn’t even doing — so he threatened to get his powerful daddy to block a $12 million ...

Disgraced ex-Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, one of Long Island’s and New York’s most powerful politicians until his sudden fall in a family-affair corruption scandal last year ...

The next job Dean Skelos gets for his son may be in the prison commissary — serving their fellow con Shelly Silver. The former state Senate Majority Leader was convicted Friday of bribery ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Former New York Senate Leader Dean Skelos, a once-powerful politician convicted of using his position to pressure companies to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars ...

Former New York state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sitting in his own public-corruption trial Monday afternoon when he learned that a federal jury across the street convicted his longtime ...

"I let things go off the rails," former state Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos told a federal judge Thursday morning, shortly before he was sentenced to five years in federal prison.

Former New York state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, who both were convicted last year on public-corruption charges, shouldn’t be sent to prison, their lawyers argued in court filings Wednesday.

ALBANY—Dean Skelos, the Republican leader in the State Senate, is putting the brakes on a Democratic proposal to give members ALBANY—Dean Skelos, the Republican leader in the State Senate ...