Espada, who had been out of bail, blew a kiss to supporters as deputy U.S. marshals led him out of the courtroom. Espada and his son were accused of looting $500,000 dollars from a health care network ...

When Pedro Espada Jr. stepped down from the podium in the back of La Luna Lounge in Tremont after giving a short, fiery and somewhat confusing concession speech into a crush of reporters, the small ...

Sometimes, the First Amendment works. New York Magazine, the NY Post, the Daily News, the Times and other publications carried the story, so did we. And hours after we called it a ripoff of the ...

Former state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. has been found guilty on four counts of embezzlement, while a judge declared a mistrial in the case against his son. Pedro Gautier Espada was accused alongside his ...

Pedro Espada Jr., a longtime Bronx politician who briefly served as majority leader of the New York State Senate, was found guilty Monday of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the ...

Earlier this morning, volunteers for Gustavo Rivera’s campaign were attempting to have one of Pedro Espada’s staffers, Michael Gary, kicked out of the Amalgamated Houses Polling site: Vladeck Hall.

Officials say Sen. Pedro Espada?s latest financial statements show failure to disclose all campaign activity funds. When reporters asked Espada to address the issue regarding campaign funds, he only ...

Pedro Espada Jr., the lawmaker from ex-New York convicted earlier this year embezzling money from the nonprofit Bronx clinic network he founded, is expected to plead guilty Friday to the remaining ...

No one could have been surprised, surely, by the news that the state Senate had hired none other than the son of Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. for the newly created $120,000-a-year job of "deputy ...

Say this for Pedro G. Espada and his ever-so-brief tenure in the utterly superfluous $120,000-a-year job as director of intergovernmental relations for the state Senate. It was shorter, even, than the ...

Pedro Espada Jr. was an American politician who served as a member of the New York State Senate. Born on October 20, 1953, in Puerto Rico, Espada became a prominent political figure in the Bronx, New ...