Skelos was serving a 51-month term at Otisville minimum-security prison in Orange County when he tested positive for COVID-19 on April 8, according to court filings.

Skelos, once the Empire State’s most powerful Republican, tested positive for the dangerous disease on April 8 and has been in quarantine, according to the paperwork.

Skelos and his son are scheduled to be sentenced on March 3. If pension reform can't be brokered in Albany, many Long Islanders said they won't vote to re-elect their legislators in November.

Skelos for years participated in a scheme to extort bribes that enriched his son, while using his own position as the leader of the Senate to benefit the firms that made the payments, federal ...

"Dean Skelos' support for certain infrastructure projects and legislation was often based not on what was good for his constituents or good for New York, but rather on what was good for his son's ...

Dean Skelos, the former New York state Senate majority leader, tested positive for Covid-19 and will be released from prison to home confinement, according to federal prosecutors. The federal ...

Dean Skelos Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in Corruption CaseHe and his son had been found guilty in December on eight federal counts of bribery, extortion, and conspiracy.

Skelos, 70, a Republican from Long Island, had been retried after an earlier conviction, in 2015, was overturned on appeal. After that trial, he was sentenced to five years.

Skelos had $924,124 left in his campaign account on Friday. Legal fees can be paid with campaign funds under New York’s election law.

The State Legislature's top Republican said Wednesday the so-so success rate for school districts across New York that tried to override the new property-tax cap this week was revealing.

ADAM SKELOS told DEAN SKELOS that he would explain during their FaceTime call why he wanted to use FaceTime. In an earlier call on February 4, 2015, ADAM SKELOS told CW-2 that ADAM SKELOS had used ...