Bharara refused to provide the same clean bill of health he issued earlier this year when he closed his probe of Cuomo's shuttering of a state corruption commission by saying there was «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.» (newsday.com)
The charges mark the second major inquiry of the Cuomo administration by the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan; eight months ago, after investigating Mr. Cuomo's handling of an anticorruption panel that he had created and abruptly shut down, Mr. Bharara said there was «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.» (nytimes.com)
«This office has concluded that, absent any additional proof that may develop, there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime,» Bharara said of the governor in January, while wrapping up investigations that produced corruption convictions against Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. (nypost.com)