Sentences with phrase «after the commission disbanded»

The governor on Monday said he didn't want to set up «another expensive prosecutor's office» when the state is already well - served, and that the legal changes agreed to after the commission disbanded justified its shorter - than - expected lifespan.

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After five years, the campaign was deemed to have been a success and the commission was disbanded.

«Maybe October of last year, 2014, after the Moreland Commission was disbanded, I got a call from New York State Police for an interview,» said Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant.

Bharara's investigation came after Governor Andrew Cuomo disbanded the Moreland Commission he had appointed to probe corruption in state politics.

Trump this year signed an executive order to disband a voting - fraud commission he convened after alleging repeatedly and without evidence that voting fraud cost him the popular vote.

The governor also offered a new assessment of his decision to disband the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which he convened in the summer of 2013 after lawmakers left the Capitol without doing anything to respond to the arrests of two other senators, Malcolm Smith and John Sampson.

Cuomo created the commission last year and abruptly disbanded it this spring after a budget deal that produced ethics reform, 1010 WINS» Juliet Papa reported.

The complaint says the federal charges stem from records obtained by investigators from the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption after it was disbanded by Cuomo in 2013.

Cuomo disbanded the commission in March 2014 after state lawmakers agreed to pass ethics reform legislation.

Cuomo subsequently disbanded the commission after negotiations that involved Silver and other Assembly members, even as subpoenas against them were pending.

The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption folded in April after Governor Andrew Cuomo agreed during budget talks to disband it.

But eyebrows were raised at the idea that those modest changes were enough of a trade - off to disband the commission after the body had issued its preliminary report only months earlier and all signs pointed toward subpoenas ready to bear fruit.

Hikind's $ 15,000 payment to Stroock out of his own pocked was made about two months after the commission was disbanded.

Cuomo, after raising some $ 35 million, most of it from large donors with deep pockets, disbanded the investigative Moreland Commission, which he had appointed to study campaign finance in the legislature.

But by April of the following year, after facing strident resistance from lawmakers over the authority of the commission, Cuomo announced the investigation would disband after a deal was reached with legislators over a new package of ethics reforms Cuomo said obviated the need for the commission.

A member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Moreland Commission, formed in July 2014 to investigate public corruption, Soares failed to follow up with his own corruption probes after the commission was disbanded — even though he had clear jurisdiction as Commission, formed in July 2014 to investigate public corruption, Soares failed to follow up with his own corruption probes after the commission was disbanded — even though he had clear jurisdiction as commission was disbanded — even though he had clear jurisdiction as Albany DA.

A day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued that it was for the best his corruption - busting Moreland Commission disbanded and turned its work over, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara essentially agreed — saying the work was best left up to him.

Bharara began looking into the Cuomo administration after the governor disbanded an ethics commission investigating corruption in Albany.

The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic science.

After overseeing the Philadelphia school system for 16 years, the state - run School Reform Commission (SRC) is disbanding and turning over the city schools to a nine - member, locally appointed school board.