Sentences with phrase «county grand jury probe»

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The Buffalo News has learned of grand jury appearances by several key Maziarz associates in a probe of the former senator, his campaign funds, and the Niagara County Republican Committee.

She disclosed in a court filing obtained by the Times Union that she has a conflict because her husband, Henry, an attorney and former Niagara County GOP chairman, testified two years ago before a federal grand jury probing Maziarz.

State Sen. Robert G. Ortt was scheduled to voluntarily testify before an Albany County grand jury Wednesday in connection with the ongoing probe of former Sen. George D. Maziarz and his campaign finances that has also produced its first guilty plea.

An Albany County grand jury heard testimonyyesterday from at least one key witness in a widening probe of former Sen. George Maziarz and his campaign finances that now also involves former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry Wojtaszek.

An Albany County grand jury indicted two Republican state senators — one sitting (Rob Ortt) and one retired (George Maziarz)-- on felony election law violations, as part of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's probe of election law fraud in Niagara County.

TROY — A Rensselaer County grand jury is investigating two Democratic City Council members and a party operative in the absentee ballot fraud probe stemming from the 2009 Working Families Party primary, according to a witness.

The grand jury's focus, the sources said, is Gary Gordon, a former Rensselaer County district attorney's investigator and former Democratic candidate for sheriff, and Detective Ron Fountain, who retired abruptly last year as the Troy Police Department probed the leak.

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In an unusual step that county Democrats say is politically motivated, a former Rensselaer County prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury probe that was started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election incounty Democrats say is politically motivated, a former Rensselaer County prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury probe that was started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election inCounty prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury probe that was started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election in 2007.

He also appeared before a Manhattan grand jury convened in 2015 by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara probing Niagara County.

An Albany County grand jury heard testimony Thursday from at least one key witness in a widening probe of former State Sen. George D. Maziarz and his campaign finances that now also involves former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry F. Wojtaszek, according to several sources familiar with the situation.

Even though the grand jury recommends another probe into whether the county spent government money appropriately, Florida's governor, Jeb Bush, and other critics say the grand jury did not go far enough to explore whether money was misspent.