Sentences with phrase «bharara subpoenaed»

Cuomo appointed his own prosecutor after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara subpoenaed records for the Buffalo Billion and other Cuomo administration economic development projects.

After Bharara subpoenaed Cuomo's office in April for information relating to Howe's activities on behalf of state contractors, the governor insisted he hardly knew him — despite Howe having worked directly for him in the»90s and for his father, Gov. Mario Cuomo, in the»80s.

Bharara subpoenaed Cuomo's office on April 29 for records relating to Howe, a longtime acquaintance of the Cuomo family, Percoco who left the governor's staff in January, and COR.

Cuomo ordered state agencies last week not have any further contact with Howe after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara subpoenaed the governor's office for records related to economic development projects, including the Buffalo Billion, run by SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

Cuomo ordered state agencies last week not have any further contact with Howe after Bharara subpoenaed the governor's office April 29 for records related to Howe, Percoco and Cuomo's projects, including the Buffalo Billion, run by SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and the Central New York Hub for Emerging Nano Industries, built by COR Development near Syracuse.

Howe was fired by WOH Government Solutions» parent company, Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, the biggest law firm in Albany, in late April when Bharara subpoenaed Cuomo's office.

In May, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara subpoenaed COBA's financial records, according to multiple sources.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara subpoenaed records from JCOPE earlier this year, as he took over the mantle of a defunct anti-corruption commission that Governor Andrew Cuomo convened in 2012.

Yet a source familiar with the investigation says Bharara subpoenaed CSNY's records more than a year ago — which is a good sign for Cuomo, in that nothing incriminating has emerged from the documents in all that time.

Bharara subpoenaed records relating to the AMRI project earlier this year, but nobody has been charged with any wrongdoing in connection with the project.

Mr. Bharara subpoenaed the files from the Moreland Commission — which Mr. Cuomo abruptly scuttled as part of a budget deal with the legislature — and used Mr. Silver's non-cooperation with the panel to help build his case against the former speaker, who was forced to resign his powerful perch in February.

Last week, Bharara subpoenaed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office for «records and documents» related to the «Buffalo Billion,» a signature economic - development project by the governor.

Cuomo answered two questions from a reporter about COR Development Wednesday while at the New York State Fair, his first comments about the Fayetteville company since Bharara subpoenaed the records.

Bharara subpoenaed two agencies that have funded and managed the construction of high - tech facilities across upstate New York: Empire State Development and SUNY Poly.

Another Howe client was also mentioned in the Bharara subpoena.

The study comes amid new scrutiny of campaign giving, with U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara subpoenaing political associates of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and mayoral staff.

Not exact matches

The only reason for a pause in the process was the barrage of subpoenas from Bharara which hit like mortar rounds across the state.

Corporate nervousness over the investigations has accelerated since Bharara served a subpoena on Cuomo's office in late April and Schneiderman «raided» SUNY Polytechnic in late May, sources said.

According to several news reports, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has subpoenaed records on Kaloyeros, COR, SUNY Polytechnic and more than 20 companies involved in developments across Upstate.

Bharara, the prosecutor who has already won convictions against former Senate leader Dean Skelos and Assembly leader Sheldon Silver, has issued subpoenas for records related to the Buffalo Billion projects, state contracts with COR Development for Central New York projects, and for a controversial energy project in Orange County, among other things.

Though Bharara's office has already taken possession of all of the Commission's investigative files and issued a grand jury subpoena «seeking emails, text messages and other records from all of the members of the Commission,» according to The New York Times, it is unclear whether Bharara will pursue the personal use investigation or its findings.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in April subpoenaed Cuomo's office for records related to contracts given to COR Development as part of the prosecutor's investigation into Cuomo's marquee economic development projects in Upstate New York.

In recent months, Bharara expanded the probe, subpoenaing information about the state's relationship with at least 20 companies, including COR.

Progress on those projects has slowed as funding is caught up in extra layers of vetting — Cuomo, after his office was subpoenaed, hired Bart Schwartz to conduct ongoing, outside reviews — related to Bharara's probe, Empire State Development president Howard Zemsky said in August.

Sources say that the Justice Department in Washington has been briefed on virtually every move the Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has made, including the recent decision to issue subpoenas to the mayor's office.

Cuomo, speaking to reporters last year, touted the Buffalo Billion's positive economic effects and said neither he nor any of his central staff have been subpoenaed by Bharara.

Bharara's investigation became public following subpoenas issued to Colatarci and Maziarz's former office manager, Marcus Hall, both of whom resigned last week prior to the subpoenas being issued.

While local authorities appeared to have not looked at the matter, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office issued a subpoena to the PEF local formerly run by Lee.

Hinton also insisted that receipt of the subpoenas, from the offices of Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, was «not a distraction in terms of getting the work done that we need to do.»

While Bharara has targeted CHA and COR over their payments to Howe and Percoco, a person briefed on the state investigation said Schneiderman has subpoenaed both EYP and Columbia.

Norris acknowledged his appearance before the grand jury to The News last week, as well as his late 2014 subpoena bringing him before a Manhattan grand jury convened by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

Bharara's office, meanwhile, took note and began issuing subpoenas over the summer, as detailed Friday by The New York Post.

Mr. Bharara's office, as well as state prosecutors, have now also issued subpoenas to Nyclass, a group that donated to the mayor's campaign, and had spearheaded an effort to ban horse carriages in the city, according to Michael McKeon, a spokesman for the group.

Bharara has subpoenaed Cuomo's records related to both companies, the Buffalo News reported.

3Gi was included in Bharara's subpoena to the governor's office, the Buffalo News reported.

Since SUNY Poly was served with subpoenas in the fall of 2015 by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, several projects that would have brought in billions of dollars of high - tech investment, have either failed or been scrapped, mostly due to investigations by Bharara and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

COR is one of more than 20 companies about which Bharara has subpoenaed information from the Cuomo administration, according to reports.

Since then, a Bronx Assemblywoman has resigned and pleaded guilty to fraud, the State Senate Republican Deputy Majority Leader, from Binghamton has been indicted, and another Senator from Western New York has resigned as a top aid has been subpoenaed by Bharara's office.

Cuomo has held few public appearances since his office was served with a bombshell subpoena by Bharara on April 29 seeking information on whether Percoco used his official position and ties to Cuomo to gain favors for two companies that had paid him as a «consultant» in 2014 while he was also being paid to run the governor's re-election campaign.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the same federal prosecutor who brought down the leaders of the legislature, has been investigating, and on Friday evening Governor Cuomo revealed that subpoenas had been issued to a former top member of his staff, and a lobbyist who used to work for the governor when Cuomo was at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

On April 29, Cuomo's office received a subpoena from Southern District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as part of a probe of state construction projects, including the Buffalo Billion.

Last summer, Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, issued a subpoena to the university looking for information about three Buffalo Billion projects, including a solar panel factory, a pharmaceutical research center and an information technology center.

The subpoena, which was followed by a state attorney general's raid on Howe's Albany office — located at the SUNY's Polytechnic Institute, which he once represented — and a federal raid on Percoco's Westchester home, was part of Bharara's ongoing probe of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion project, contractors for which hired Howe and at various times paid Percoco and Percoco's wife «consulting» fees.

After Andrew Cuomo unceremoniously shuttered the Commission, the subpoenas were withdrawn — until U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara's office incorporated the work into its own investigation, resulting in charges of «using the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars of bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.»

Investigator Bart Schwartz's firm, Guidepost Solutions, was hired in April after Cuomo's office was issued a subpoena by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who is investigating possible corruption within economic development programs, including the Buffalo Billion, a signature project for the governor.

We were glad to see Gov. Cuomo rise to defend three of his top aides whose records have been subpoenaed by US Attorney Preet Bharara — not least because it's a strong sign that Cuomo himself is in the clear.

Usually, all that excites Albany is US Attorney Preet Bharara serving subpoenas.

Howe, who as a lobbyist had access to the highest levels of the Cuomo administration, and Percoco, whom Cuomo has described as being like «my father's third son,» were cut off from access to the administration after Bharara served a sweeping subpoena related to the activities of both men on the governor's office in late April.

The offices of US Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance sent subpoenas to several of the 14 developers that bid on the City Hall - backed project to redevelop the Brooklyn Heights library into a luxury condo tower.

Bharara has subpoenaed the offices of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino about dealings with de Blasio financial backers Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who have been linked to recent city pay - to - play scandals.