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On Wednesday, Trump told The New York Times that he wouldn't have hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he had known Sessions would recuse himself from the investigation into Russia's election interference and whether his campaign team collaborated at all.

«Knowingly and willfully failing to file campaign finance disclosure reports with the New York State Board of Elections is a crime,» said Attorney General Schneiderman.

A number of high - profile potential candidates for this year's election, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, and U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, are not on the list of those to be interviewed.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Preet for New York attorney general is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

The 2017 New York City elections are for the three citywide posts of Mayor, Public Advocate and Comptroller; the five Borough President positions; all 51 City Council seats; the Brooklyn and Manhattan District Attorney posts; and other down ballot offices like some civil court judges and some district leader positions.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated a former staffer from his days as attorney general to lead the New York State Board of Elections» new compliance unit.

He also worked as an attorney and advocate at Demos, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, on a nationwide effort to secure the voting rights of low - income citizens, and was a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Election Law Committee.

The United States Attorneys for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York have set up special telephone numbers to receive complaints of possible violations of federal election laws relating to the upcoming general elections in New York City and other counties in their districts.

But in a statement that night after Cuomo named her the special prosecutor, she said she «will not accept any appointment nor seek election to the office of the New York State Attorney General.»

He won election as attorney general despite resistance from the New York Times editorial board and other left - leaning institutions, and then ran the only two people ahead of him in line — Gov. Eliot Spitzer (with an assist from Client 9 on that one) and Lt. Gov. David Paterson — out of town on a rail.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has set up a hotline to call if you have a problem at the polls in Tuesday's general election.

Primaries in Competitive General Elections New York's 21st District The GOP brawl between attorney Matt Doheny and former Bush White House staffer Elise Stefanik for retiring Rep. Bill Owens» upstate New York seat could go down to the wire.

Attorney Christopher McGrath officially launched his state Senate campaign, telling several hundred supporters in Inwood that the April 19 special election to replace convicted former Majority Leader Dean Skelos is «the most important election in the history of New York State.»

The four prosecutors involved in the first Silver trial have left the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan — Carrie H. Cohen entered private practice; Andrew D. Goldstein joined the office of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election; Howard S. Master became a senior enforcement counsel for the New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman; James M. McDonald now heads enforcement for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — and a new team has taken over.

In 2018, New York will be home to elections for statewide seats including Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Comptroller, as well as one of its two United States Senate seats.

The case referred by New York's Board of Elections in January to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. involves donations to Senate candidates Justin Wagner, Terry Gipson and Cecilia Tkaczyk.

Paterson was selected as running mate by then New York Attorney General and Democratic Party nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election.

Attorney General Schneiderman said, «New York voters deserve elections that are fair and free of coordination that distorts the democratic process.

«One is a motion to dismiss in the interest of justice, primarily predicated upon internal emails among attorneys for the New York State Board of Election,» said attorney Joseph LaTona, who is also representing Maziarz.

U.S. Rep. John Katko said today he has no interest in challenging New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in the 2018 election, and will focus on seeking a third term in Congress.

The 2016 settlement reached after Trump won the election but before he took office combined two California class - action lawsuits and a civil action by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

On this presidential primary day, the New York Attorney General's office has already received a higher number of calls and complaints than for past elections.

John Cahill is the Republican candidate for New York Attorney General in this fall's election.

Albany, NY — Host Alan Chartock is joined by New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic nominee for Attorney General in Tuesday's general election.

Does it matter that New York has become a one - party state — with barely anyone noticing the election for governor in two weeks, let alone state comptroller and attorney general?

I don't know what the Moreland Commission is going to recommend — there's 24 other people and very diverse opinions on there — but what we've learned is that although there would be a funding source from taxpayers to finance public elections in the state of New York for Assembly, Senate, Governor, Attorney General, etc, the savings ultimately would be astronomical in the long run.

New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman opened his office's Election Day Hotline, which

Before his election to Congress, Katko served for more than 15 years as a federal prosecutor in Syracuse for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of New York.

«On July 31, 2009, I was indicted by a Bronx County Grand Jury for committing perjury in a 2008 civil matter, held prior to my election to the Assembly... Thereafter, I agreed to cooperate with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and, later, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with various investigations aimed at rooting out public corruption,» Castro said.

«That's the conundrum here,» said Thomas J. Garry, a New York elections lawyer, who said a current congressional candidate who wants to run for attorney general would likely need to file a lawsuit.

Schneiderman took the stage at the Democrats» party in Midtown about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday morning as New York's newest attorney general and said that his win proved that speaking up for justice meant you could win an election.

«Preet for New York Attorney General» is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James has filed paperwork to run for attorney general, a posting on the state Board of Elections website shows.

The New York City Board of Elections is currently under a separate investigation by the state Attorney General as to why more than 100,000 Brooklyn voter registrations were canceled just before the primary.

Long, a New York City attorney, defeated U.S. Representative Bob Turner and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos in a primary election Tuesday notable for low turnout.

In an Oct. 8, 2014, confidential memo the campaign finance attorney for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio laid out his interpretation of what was allowed and not allowed under state election law as the mayor worked to swing the state Senate to Democratic control.

Election Results: After Tuesday's elections, New York City has two new City Council members, two new District Attorneys, two new Assembly members, and one new state Senator.

If you have any trouble participating in the primary election Tuesday, the New York State Attorney General wants to hear about it.

A Quinnipiac survey shows Paterson trailed state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo by a whopping 33 points in a hypothetical Democratic primary matchup and tied with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) in a general election trial heat.

Less than three weeks after the election, a passage appeared in a New York Times editorial urging Cuomo to «hand over the power to investigate public corruption in Albany to the new attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.»

ALBANY, N.Y. — Barbara Underwood, thrust into the job as New York state's chief legal officer when Eric Schneiderman abruptly resigned amid allegations he abused woman, said Tuesday she won't seek election to the attorney general's positon.

«It has been suggested that the recent complaints I've made about Mr. Hevesi to your office, to that of the Albany County District Attorney, and to that of the New York State Board of Elections are politically motivated and timed to damage my opponent's chances of reelection.

In the second motion, attorneys argued the case should be dismissed because there were internal emails from the New York State Board of Elections questioning whether using a pass - through entity was even a crime.

Tuesday, November 4th is the General Election day for a number of elected offices, including the New York State Assembly and Senate and the Offices of Governor and State Attorney General.

NEW YORK — The scramble to succeed disgraced former New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — and assume one of the most prominent prosecutorial roles in national Democratic circles — is roiling New York's election - year politics.

Last week, Schumer, who as New York's senior senator recommends who the U.S. Attorney should be, praised the job Bharara is doing but said he wants to wait until after the presidential election before taking a position on the matter.

The residency challenge was filed by suburban New York City residents Harris Weiss and Austin Sternlicht, registered Democrats who are represented in the case by former state Sen. Martin Connor, a New York attorney who specializes in election law.

If James is appointed attorney general next week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio would have three days to call a special election for public advocate.

As federal authorities have been slow to investigate tax - exempt advocacy groups for potential violations of tax and election laws, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman moved this week to take matters into his own hands.

A tweet from Westchester attorney Andrew Barovick, the chairman of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Medical Malpractice, Monday evening read «In light of election loss,.@SheriffMoss mulling offers to be new spokesmodel for either Cream of Wheat, or Uncle Ben's Rice.»