Sentences with phrase «as state investigators»

In April 2014, Ferro was placed on administrative leave as state investigators began probing the allegations against him.

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As a former IRS investigator, I can state clearly: The IRS does not make introductory phone calls.

WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday.

Investigators may have compared a serial killer's DNA with that of one million unwitting genealogy enthusiasts as part of an investigation that led to the arrest earlier this week of a man accused of being California's elusive «Golden State Killer.»

As Mark Haskins, asenior investigator for New York State's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, explains it, «Basically you have an antiaging clinic with an Internetpresence.

But the potential disbursement of funds through an arm of SUNY Polytechnic comes as economic development projects throughout the state are coming under scrutiny from federal investigators over how contracts are awarded.

In short, as good as Spitzer was at being attorney general, the job of prosecutor and investigator didn't translate over to chief executive of the state.

It's still unclear exactly what state investigators were looking for when they raided the Buffalo condo of former Erie County Democratic Committee Chairman Steve Pigeon, as well as the homes of former Buffalo Deputy Mayor Steve Casey and Chris Grant, the current Chief of Staff for Republican Congressman Chris Collins.

As Florida authorities work to identify the people who died in a catastrophic bridge collapse, state and federal investigators will begin the task of figuring out how and why the five - day - old span failed.

Legally, candidates for the state Senate or Assembly are not required to itemize purchases less than $ 50, but investigators wondered whether lump sums categorized as «unitemized» — or large unspecified credit card charges — concealed purchases of goods or services unrelated to a campaign.

DA's investigators in Onondaga County are required to have six years of experience as a police officer, including four years as a police detective or investigator, according to a document the DA's office filed last year with the state Department of Civil Service.

Supervisors listed Dean's official work station as Albany so he could wrongly bill the state for $ 240,000 in travel expenses, investigators found.

Federal and state investigators are reviewing contracts into the Buffalo Billion as well as issues surrounding contracting at SUNY Polytechnic.

In a preliminary report, Mr. Cuomo's investigators found a pattern of sudden spikes in overtime as people neared retirement in 28 out of 50 agencies they looked at around the state.

And when Cuomo hired the private investigator Bart Schwartz after his own office received subpoenas, Schwartz's efforts to overhaul accounting on SUNY Poly's projects further slowed as state agencies withheld payments to contractors to comply.

The dramatic predawn raid on Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada's health - care empire by state and federal investigators yesterday will likely result in his indictment on multiple federal charges in as soon as a month, law - enforcement sources told The Post.

Haldar sued SUNY Poly in state Supreme Court in Albany County this past July trying to get reinstated by the school after his suspension as a professor and losing his assistant dean job in addition to being taken off grants as the principal investigator.

Federal investigators have subpoenaed Cuomo's office, known as his «executive chamber,» as well as a number of state agencies, the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute and private businesses as part of a probe of state - supported projstate agencies, the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute and private businesses as part of a probe of state - supported projState University of New York Polytechnic Institute and private businesses as part of a probe of state - supported projstate - supported projects.

The charges state that, as early as 2010, an unnamed real estate developer, who is also a cooperating witness in the case, made a one - time, $ 20,000 payment to Adam Skelos for work that federal investigators say he did not do.

Hill, who is Warren's uncle, was hired to oversee the mayor's security detail after recently retiring as a senior investigator with 30 years with the New York State Police.

In fact, Assemblyman Michael Miller wrote a letter to Ms. Quinn in September, 2012 (and I am still waiting to see it, despite multiple requests), supposedly questioning the jurisdiction of the City Council with regard to their failure to demand a completed investigation by the Department of Investigations (that DOI investigators and officials initiated in May, 1993, but failed to complete), and Ms. Quinn's own role to initiate her own, independent investigation, as her August, 2006 letter clearly states.

Even as independent investigator Bart Schwartz's presence is held up as a measure of confidence in the Cuomo administration and the state's vast economic development apparatus, several questions remain about Schwartz's role and power.

Federal investigators and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office are also examining whether the mayor and his associates coordinated fundraising efforts to use the county Democratic committees as straw donors to funnel money to specific state Senate candidates, circumventing limits on single donors.

The documents reveal a myriad of new details about the email set - up and show that investigators found multiple attempts by hackers to access Clinton's system — a series of personal devices and servers that the Democratic presidential candidate told investigators she used as a matter of convenience while she was secretary of state.

On a more long - term concern, Senate Democrats want funding in the state budget to help police departments purchase body cameras for officers as well as the formation of a special investigator's office to review police - related deaths.

A defense attorney for one of two defendants accused of dumping contaminated debris at four Suffolk sites questioned two state environmental investigators over what he described as their inaction when visiting two of the sites.

The man arrested in Monday's Port Authority bombing admitted to investigators that he had carried out the attack «for the Islamic State,» saying his goal was «to terrorize as many people as possible.»

As part of his ongoing rift with de Blasio, Cuomo reportedly has told his top police executives to pull investigators from various state and federal task forces and dispatch them — in uniform — to the city's high - profile transit hubs to boost the state's profile there.

The others: Gerard Kropf, a retired deputy superintendent of the state police; Bart Johnson, a retired state police colonel now working as the security director for the Transportation Security Administration in Upstate New York; David Krause, a state police major; and Christopher Reidy, an investigator with the state Attorney General's Office.

Mr. Gural said the state investigator had traveled to Nichols, in the state's Southern Tier region, to pose broad questions as to whether he felt the eight - month - long bidding process last year was fair.

Almost a dozen investigators from the Brooklyn US Attorney's Office, the state Attorney General's Office, and both the city and state comptroller's offices asked the ex-staffers whether Hynes» neighborhood community relations offices were being used as de facto campaign outposts in the 2013 race, a source said.

The charges state that, as early as 2010, an unnamed real estate developer, who is also a cooperating witness in the case, made a one time $ 20,000 payment to Adam Skelos for work that federal investigators say he did not do.

«Our investigators look for indicators that have been approved by the state as red flags, including expenses that exceed reported income, applicants who have worked off the books or people who are self - employed but don't have records to substantiate reported information,» Day said.

Investigators hope to uncover documents stemming from de Blasio's unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 as well as fundraising efforts for the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit to advance the mayor's agenda.

A defense attorney for one of two defendants accused of dumping contaminated debris at four Suffolk sites questioned two state environmental investigators Thursday over what he described as their inaction when visiting two of the sites.

Bharara — who already has won corruption convictions against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos since Cuomo disbanded the Moreland Commission on corruption at the state Capitol — also declined to say if investigators had interviewed the governor as part of the continuing probe.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Investigators with the state attorney general's office raided a SUNY Polytechnic Institute office Thursday as part of its probe into potential bid rigging at SUNY, a source familiar with the investigation said.

In an interview on Talk 1300's «Live from the State Capitol,» DiNapoli said that federal investigators had been given access to whatever they needed as they probed the alleged bribery scheme involving Navnoor Kang, but his office learned the depth of the issue when U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced charges against Kang on Wednesday.

The department's Strike Force was formed in 2012 to work with state troopers and Erie County Sheriff's investigators, focusing on crime enforcement and traffic checkpoints in areas identified as crime hot spots.

Private investigator Bart Schwartz's probe into potential wrongdoing in upstate development projects is Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fourth investigation to be empowered under Section 6 of state Executive Law, otherwise known as the Moreland Act.

The lawmaker, who is presently a 3 - time member of the Plateau State House of Assembly, was said to have forged a Diploma in Business Administration of the University of Jos, dated November 1996, and falsely inserted his name as one of the graduands in the «Order of Proceedings of the 19th Combined Convocation Ceremony» of the said university held on 26th and 27th April 2002 which he presented to ICPC investigators.

Officer Guerra's father, Denitor Guerra, is a retired NYPD detective who now works as an investigator for the New York State Attorney General's office.

A quarter century ago as Niagara County clerk, his election committee pleaded guilty for failure to list the true identity of a campaign contributor discovered by federal and state investigators probing alleged corruption in the county.

The federal investigation, overseen by the United States attorney's office in Brooklyn, has placed Mr. Spota, who is in his fourth term, on the defensive as investigators pore over his cases.

Senator Patrick M. Gallivan, a Republican from western New York who is a former State Police captain and sheriff of Erie County, said troopers acted as emergency responders and the only specialized investigators in large parts of the state and questioned if they were being put to equally good use in the State Police captain and sheriff of Erie County, said troopers acted as emergency responders and the only specialized investigators in large parts of the state and questioned if they were being put to equally good use in the state and questioned if they were being put to equally good use in the city.

PARKLAND, Fla. — As investigators track the gun purchases of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, dozens of students and staff from the site of the massacre will board buses late Tuesday, bound for the state capital.

Before his election to the Legislature, Mr. Losquadro was a claims adjuster and fraud investigator for State Farm Insurance, investigating such incidents as arson, auto thefts and staged accidents.

The top investigator at the state's Board of Elections asked prosecutors in January to investigate whether the mayor's advisers broke the law by channeling campaign contributions to Democratic state Senate candidates through a committee not subject to donation limits, so as to evade them.

That's the maximum amount it could cost state taxpayers for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration to employ Bart M. Schwartz as an independent investigator.

We rely upon our full - time staff of attorneys, forensic accountants, research analysts, field investigators and computer forensics experts to staff these assignments, and we work collaboratively with our business clients to develop an investigative plan that is appropriate to the suspected misconduct... Since most of our investigative professionals have had experience in federal, state and local law enforcement — as prosecutors, auditors and agents — our investigative strategies are developed with an understanding of the evidence that may be needed to support an eventual criminal prosecution.»