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 ...

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 state Sen. Brian Benjamin used money from his Senate campaign account to pay for “constituent services” at a Harlem jazz club at almost exactly the same time he and his wife held their ...

New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has resigned in the wake of his arrest in a federal corruption investigation, creating a political crisis for Gov. Kathy Hochul seven months after she selected ...

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 ...

According to published reports, African American voter turnout at the 2012 Presidential Election was higher than that of whites for the first time in history – and crucial in securing Barack Obama’s ...

New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, whose seven months in that role has been overshadowed by probes into a previous campaign, was arrested Tuesday in a federal corruption investigation. The U.S.

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 ...