HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- New York Governor Kathy Hochul officially named State Senator Brian Benjamin to be her lieutenant governor Thursday in Harlem. The 44-year-old Benjamin is the senior ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- In this episode of Up Close, until this last week he was a New York State Senator from Harlem, where he was born. Now Brian Benjamin, a son of immigrants, has been sworn in as ...

Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned Tuesday following his arrest on federal corruption charges related to his role in an alleged scheme to steer $50,000 in state funds to a nonprofit in exchange for ...

Brian Benjamin became New York State’s lieutenant governor Thursday morning at a swearing-in ceremony at Gov. Hochul’s Manhattan offices — and finally addressed looming ethics questions about his past ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul will have some explaining to do to voters in the wake of Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin’s resignation last week. The problem isn’t the allegations about Benjamin. The former state Senator ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to introduce state Sen. Brian Benjamin as her choice for lieutenant governor Thursday. Hochul scheduled a “special announcement” with Benjamin in his Harlem ...

CNN — New York Democratic Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has resigned after being arrested and indicted on charges in connection with his alleged participation in a scheme to obtain campaign contributions in ...

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