Sentences with phrase «investigate public corruption created»

In 2013, he testified before the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in response to public outcry.

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But he said the gist of the call was that Cuomo had created a commission to investigate public corruption by elected officials, and made specific mention of Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, alleging she has bilked taxpayers out of more money than «some of us take home in a year.»

Sugarman's unit was created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014 following a series of corruption trials, and also the premature closure of Cuomo's Moreland Commisssion to Investigate Public Ccorruption trials, and also the premature closure of Cuomo's Moreland Commisssion to Investigate Public CorruptionCorruption.

Astorino continued his critique of the governor on multiple fronts, once again blasting him over an ongoing probe of the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, a now - defunct panel created by Cuomo in 2013.

The New York story began as a state investigation initiated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who created a panel called a Moreland Commission to investigate public corruption.

Janos Marton, former special counsel to the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption — the body created and dissolved by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — said relationships forged between business interests and politicians are often strained when one side doesn't get what it wants.

Bharara's support on Wednesday for creating another Moreland Commission to probe public corruption, prompting Democratic primary challenger Cynthia Nixon to claim the popular former prosecutor's «endorsement» of her own efforts for a similar investigating panel.

Nearly 100 civic and community groups called for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to create a blue - ribbon panel akin to the shuttered Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption and clean up the «pay - to - play» culture they said rules real - estate development in New York City.

This was part of the agreement that dismantled the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, implemented a pilot public financing program that nobody participated in, and created the position of independent enforcement counsel at the Public Corruption, implemented a pilot public financing program that nobody participated in, and created the position of independent enforcement counsel at the public financing program that nobody participated in, and created the position of independent enforcement counsel at the Board.

One similar example drew the attention of the Cuomo - created Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.

Cuomo's three previous uses of the Moreland Act were initiated by executive orders: His 2011 investiture of then - Inspector General Ellen Biben to investigate Nassau County Police Department's Forensic Evidence; his 2012 creation of a panel to assess how utilities on Long Island responded to three powerful storms that hammered the region; and his 2013 decision to create the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which was shut down by Cuomo midway through its planned 18 - montinvestigate Nassau County Police Department's Forensic Evidence; his 2012 creation of a panel to assess how utilities on Long Island responded to three powerful storms that hammered the region; and his 2013 decision to create the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which was shut down by Cuomo midway through its planned 18 - montInvestigate Public Corruption, which was shut down by Cuomo midway through its planned 18 - month lifespan.

The Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in mid-2013 after the Legislature bypassed his «Clean Up Albany» initiative, had a prominent Rockland figure on it 25 - member panel: District Attorney Thomas Zugibe.

His top aides weighed in on subpoenas pending before the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, creating a mess for the administration that it is still not clear of.

Last year, on July 28, 2014, Governor Cuomo called the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption (created by Governor Cuomo in July 2013 and shuttered less than a year later) a «phenomenal success,» following a report into the relationship between the governor's office and Moreland amid reports that Cuomo was being investigated by United States Attorney Preet Bharara for interfering with the commission's work.

The improper use of campaign money and the abuse of travel reimbursements were among the subjects investigated by the Moreland Commission, a panel that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, created last year to investigate public corruption, but shut down in March.

The interview took place months after Cuomo dismantled the Moreland Commission, which he had created a year earlier to investigate public corruption.

ALBANY — The Cuomo - created state panel that investigated public corruption spent over $ 350,000 in its nine months of existence for travel, information technology and data analysis, records show.

In a brief filed Tuesday in Supreme Court in Manhattan, Senate Republican Campaign Committee lawyer Michael Chertoff said the SRCC «voluntarily discontinues» its challenge to a September subpoena from the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which was created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The chairman, William Fitzpatrick, also said that the commission, created by Governor Andrew Cuomo to investigate public corruption in Albany and recommend changes to state election and fund - raising law, has found «criminal behavior» through its investigations.

That big New York Times article detailing the Cuomo administration's interference with the panel he created to investigate public corruption came a little more than two months after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara seized the commission's records, and publicly excoriated the governor for shuttering it before its scheduled sunset.

Extell and other luxury developers such as Larry Silverstein and Joseph Sitt that benefited from the legislation have been hit with subpeonas by a special commission created by Cuomo to investigate public corruption.

The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, created by Governor Andrew Cuomo earlier this year, sent a letter in late August requesting information from state lawmakers who earned more than $ 20,000 in income aside from their part - time legislative salaries.

Nearly 100 civic and community groups on Wednesday called for Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara to create a blue - ribbon panel akin to the shuttered Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption and clean up the «pay - to - play» culture they said rules real - estate development in the city.

Nearly a year has passed since the New York Times published a series of lengthy articles questioning whether the Cuomo administration interfered with a Moreland Commission the governor created to investigate public corruption in the Legislature.