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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...