With potential campaign finance law violations under scrutiny, one person said, the Cohen investigation was assigned to career prosecutors in the office's elite public corruption unit, which has a track record of convicting politicians on both sides of the aisle. (nytimes.com)
A team of FBI agents from the bureau's Public Corruption Unit started eyeing the mayor's 2014 election efforts for upstate Democratic candidates as many as five months before Risa Sugarman, the state Board of Elections» Chief Enforcement Officer, wrote the DA that her team discovered «willful and flagrant» violations by the mayor and his associates, sources said. (dnainfo.com)
Two lead prosecutors handling the case — Thomas McKay and Nicolas Roos — are part of the public corruption unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and prosecute public officials and people engaged in conspiracy or fraud against the government. (washingtonpost.com)