"I'm not married but I feel like I just survived an attempted attack on my heterosexuality."
nytimes.com | Nicholas Confessore | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
With statewide elections a year away, the Queens Democratic Party will take the unusual step on Thursday of announcing its support for a primary chall...
nypost.com | Murray Weiss and William J. Gorta | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York
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...
The New York Observer | Jimmy Vielkind | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
This week, Schneiderman was announced as leader of a panel charged deciding the fate of Senator Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat who had just been ...
nydailynews.com | By Kenneth Lovett and Erin Einhorn | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
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....
Dan Collins | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
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.
Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
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...
New York Times | Ralph Blumenthal | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York
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...
newsday.com | Michael Frazier | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York
The felony assault trial of state Sen. Hiram Monserrate resumes Tuesday with closing arguments on the 10th day of the proceedings before Justice Will...
nydailynews.com | By Thomas Zambito | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
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...
NBC New York | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York
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 11.29.2009 | New York
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 11.28.2009 | New York
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 11.24.2009 | New York
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 11.22.2009 | New York
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 11.22.2009 | New York
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 11.21.2009 | New York
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...
New York Daily News | Juan Gonzalez | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
State Sen. Hiram Monserrate has refused to cop a plea to charges of slashing his girlfriend with a broken glass - and will take his chances in court M...
Times Union | Irene Jay Liu | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York
ALBANY -- In the weeks since the Senate stalemate ended, the chamber's Democrats have showered rehabilitated turncoat Sens. Pedro Espada Jr. of the Br...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 08.30.2009 | New York
(AP) -- Embattled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate could lose his seat if he's convicted of assaulting his girlfriend during an argument. A judge in Queen...
wcbstv.com | Posted 08.21.2009 | New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on the menu Monday, as state senators promised to eat him for lunch. The two groups took their war of words over the cont...
Dan Collins | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York
Sen. Hiram Monserrate - whose girlfriend was treated for injuries around her left eye that required 20-40 stitches - has been put back in charge of the Consumer Protection Committee, a job that carries a $12,500 stipend.
New York Daily News | By Kenneth Lovett | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York
ALBANY - Democratic leaders quietly reinstated a $12,500 stipend for indicted Sen. Hiram Monserrate - one of two lawmakers who briefly joined Republic...
Warren Goldstein | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York
"All politics is local," the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil opined famously. And New Yorkers have been getting a large dose of the maxim in rec...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York
The leadership stalemate of 1965 occurred at the start of the session, when bill expiration deadlines weren't looming. Pedro Espada's defection (facilitated by Hiram Monserrate) flushed months of hard-fought negotiations and legislative footwork down the toilet.
Katie Halper | Posted 12.02.2009 | New York