Ousted lawmaker Hiram Monserrate planted a kiss on his girlfriend Tuesday after a Queens judge gave the looney lovebirds the OK to see each other agai...
Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
The expulsion of Hiram Monserrate from the state Senate capped another hallucinogenic week in New York's capital. Here are three theories that might explain the madness we call Albany.
AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 05.25.2011
ALBANY, N.Y — The New York Senate voted Tuesday night to expel a senator convicted of a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his girlfriend, a resol...
Brian X. Foley | Posted 05.25.2011
Given Sen. Monserrate's appalling behavior, I am introducing a resolution to expel him from the New York State Senate. Domestic violence has no place in our legislature.
Posted 05.25.2011
New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate was found not guilty on two counts of felony assault in his slash-and-gash case today. The Queens Democrat wa...
nytimes.com | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Hiram Monserrate behaved recklessly and callously after his companion was hurt during an argument at his Queens home, failing to call 911, dra...
nydailynews.com | By Kenneth Lovett and Erin Einhorn | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Bloomberg lit into convicted Sen. Hiram Monserrate on Sunday - at the same time as the state Senate moved to set up a panel to decide his fate....
nydailynews.com | By Thomas Zambito | Posted 05.25.2011
State Sen. Hiram Monserrate's girlfriend was so drunk before she was slashed across the face that the host of a 2008 Christmas party told her she'd ha...
AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — A state senator was sentenced Friday to probation and domestic abuse counseling, the resolution of a yearlong legal drama that began when...
New York Times | Ralph Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
State Senator Hiram Monserrate used "force, not violence" to get his injured companion, Karla Giraldo, to a hospital the night he cut her face -- acci...
AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — A New York Senate committee met Tuesday to decide whether a state senator convicted of assaulting his girlfriend should remain in off...
Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
There is only one possible upside to the pathetic, miserable, appalling story of New York state Senator Hiram Monserrate: Teenagers are not generally known to take state legislators as role models.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
ALBANY, N.Y. (Associated Press) - Legislative officials says a special New York Senate committee is recommending either censuring or expelling a senat...
nypost.com | Murray Weiss and William J. Gorta | Posted 05.25.2011
One trial down, one restraining order to go. Less than two weeks after state Sen. Hiram Monserrate was convicted of assaulting Karla Giraldo, she's a...
newsday.com | Michael Frazier | Posted 05.25.2011
The felony assault trial of state Sen. Hiram Monserrate resumes Tuesday with closing arguments on the 10th day of the proceedings before Justice Will...
Posted 05.25.2011
Gay activists hit Hiram Monserrate on his home turf Tuesday by crashing the state senator's Christmas party and protesting his stance on gay marriage....
NBC New York | Posted 05.25.2011
The girlfriend of alleged face-slasher Hiram Monserrate broke into tears while testifying this afternoon -- rushing from courtroom and throwing her bo...
nytimes.com | RALPH BLUMENTHAL | Posted 05.25.2011
The woman at the center of State Senator Hiram Monserrate's assault trial -- his companion, Karla Giraldo, whom Mr. Monserrate is accused of slashing ...
nypost.com | Posted 05.25.2011
The PBA union card that sent state Sen. Hiram Monserrate into a jealous rage after he found it in his girlfriend's pocketbook belongs to a married cop...
nypost.com | Posted 05.25.2011
The attending nurse who treated State Sen. Hiriam Monserrate's gal pal moments after she was struck in the face with a broken glass said the Queens la...
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
A newly released video in the Hiram Monserrate assault trial shows the state senator violently dragging his girlfriend through the hallway of an apart...
New York Daily News | Michael Daly | Posted 05.25.2011
On the first day of trial, the defense admitted state Sen. Hiram Monserrate slashed his girlfriend's face with a glass but insisted it was "a freak ac...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK (AP) - A prosecutor says a domestic abuse case against a New York state senator is about "power and control." Assistant District Attorney Sc...
nydailynews.com | Daniel Edward Rosen and Corky Siemaszko | Posted 05.25.2011