A federal judge has dismissed the bulk of the corruption charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, saying prosecutors failed 'to allege an explicit quid pro quo.'
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Benjamin’s April arrest and resignation threw state politics into a brief tailspin as Gov. Kathy Hochul scrambled to find a new lieutenant governor months before the Democratic primary. The remaining charges against Benjamin rely on documents he filled out during the vetting process for lieutenant governor. There, he attested that he never "directly exercised [his] governmental authority . . . concerning a matter of a donor [he] directly solicited."
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