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Word of that arrest came days after Queens state Sen. Malcolm Smith was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors for allegedly bribing Republican party officials to put him on the ballot for mayor.

De Blasio and several aides were also investigated by federal prosecutors for exchanging favorable city action for campaign donations.

While testifying at the unrelated corruption trial of former State Sen. Dean Skelos, Walker confirmed he is being investigated by federal prosecutors for what he called «campaign contributions, that contractors received work because of that.»

He was indicted by federal prosecutors for depriving the right of the public to «honest services» later that year, but is fighting the charges in court.

Not exact matches

«Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page report.

In that case, led by the civil division of the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of California, prosecutors found that JPMorgan flouted federal laws with its sale of subprime mortgage securities from 2005 to 2007.

Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan revealed in court papers Friday that Cohen, whose office and residences were raided by the FBI last week, has been under investigation for months.

By the end of the evening one thing was clear — Giuliani had concocted such a shifting, nebulous alibi for Trump that it didn't even hold up to a few hours of media scrutiny let alone a future interview with a Federal prosecutor.

Federal prosecutors and attorneys for Michael Cohen on Wednesday suggested seven candidates who could be picked by a federal judge to review materials seized in an FBI raid of Cohen's home and office last week and determine whether any should be protected under attorney - client priFederal prosecutors and attorneys for Michael Cohen on Wednesday suggested seven candidates who could be picked by a federal judge to review materials seized in an FBI raid of Cohen's home and office last week and determine whether any should be protected under attorney - client prifederal judge to review materials seized in an FBI raid of Cohen's home and office last week and determine whether any should be protected under attorney - client privilege.

Now, the owners of some state - authorized marijuana dispensaries are hoping that the new guidance for federal prosecutors, issued Aug. 29 by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, will help remove banking and credit card roadblocks.

Former federal prosecutors told POLITICO that Cohen's team likely intended to appeal to Wood by suggesting members of the tight - knit club of former and current employees of the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.

A former U.S. Army sergeant and two other U.S. citizens were found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday of taking part in a plot to murder a woman in the Philippines for money, prosecutors said.

The growing legal questions around Mr Cohen's services for Mr Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand - jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The growing legal questions around Cohen's services for Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The guilty verdict in the case of Joe Percoco was coupled with not guilty results for two prominent upstate developers who had also been accused of corruption and bribery by federal prosecutors.

The nudging is subtle: Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is under investigation by federal prosecutors, while the GOP's deputy majority leader, Tom Libous, is under indictment for lying to the FBI.

Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Cohen have each proposed to Wood the names of possible candidates to serve as a «special master» to assist in the review of materials seized last week from him by the FBI.

A federal judge delayed sentencing of Edward Walsh, and set a date for a pre-sentencing hearing on whether new assertions by federal prosecutors are accurate and should potentially increase the prison time faced by the former Suffolk Conservative Party leader.

An opinion by an Oyster Bay attorney that the town could not provide a loan guarantee legally for restaurateur Harendra Singh's businesses set off a chain of events in which former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's law firm was hired to devise a way get around it, federal prosecutors allege.

At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.»

Today's sweeping indictments by federal and state prosecutors resoundingly confirm that the state's use of non-profits and SUNY to award billions in state economic development contracts has created huge and systemic opportunities for corruption.

Though the town board passed resolutions in 2014 declaring that independent reviews showed Singh's companies had spent at least $ 11.7 million, the independent reviews provided by the town only account for $ 5.6 million and federal prosecutors said Singh diverted loan money elsewhere.

Close to $ 2 Billion in public funds in play Today's sweeping indictments by federal and state prosecutors resoundingly confirm that the state's use of non-profits and SUNY to award billions in state economic development contracts has created huge and systemic opportunities for corruption.

The ethics commission's first meeting comes on the same day that State Senator Carl Kruger pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to felony charges, for accepting more than a million dollars in bribes to maintain what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle, including a large house owned by a former mafia boss and a Bentley automobile.

The Singhs and their companies have been sued for millions of dollars by their creditors and federal prosecutors are seeking forfeiture of assets including their Laurel Hollow home.

For nearly a decade, federal prosecutors said, a former top official at the Staten Island DA» soffice used his agency's American Express card to buy himself and his family more than $ 400,000 in luxury gifts, resort vacations, even an extensive knife collection, hiding the transactions by logging them under the internal billing code his office used to pay informants and conduct surveillance operations.

I fully concur with Senator Ball on this one.Leibell and company dishonestly framed this all as reasonable requests for leniency, as if what he had done was not so bad (and as if he had contritely cooperated with authorities), when in fact the former State Senator has been defiant in NOT helping Federal prosecutors — AND some of the letters in Leibell's behalf came from people who are still being actively investigated by Federal prosecutors.

Cohen is blocked from commodities trading until 2018 due to an investigation by Preet Bharara, the former US Attorney who did not make life easy for the governor during his years as a federal prosecutor.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was grilled by heavy - hitting federal prosecutors about his campaign fundraising for over four hours on Friday.

Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto «traded their office for money,» a federal prosecutor said Tuesday in the 10 - week - old corruption trial's closing arguments while Mangano's defense attorney countered that the government's star witness «desecrated the oath» by lying repeatedly on the stand.

Azrack said the cases were different for three reasons: The de Blasio case involved only «campaign contributions» and not personal gifts, a fact that would increase the government's burden of proof for bribery; the defendants failed to demonstrate they are «similarly situated» to de Blasio; and, critically, the de Blasio matter was already reviewed by a different set of federal prosecutors, who declined to move forward with a case against him.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan, led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, are looking at how SUNY Polytechnic Institute and its dependent subsidiary, the Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, let contracts for multi-million dollar factories in Buffalo and Syracuse.

A palatial $ 2 million Staten Island mansion on Lighthouse Hill allegedly paid for with profits from a $ 16.6 million opioid pill - mill scheme was targeted in a forfeiture action by Brooklyn federal prosecutors.

If that isn't hot enough for you the Justice Department is said to be considering having federal agents and prosecutors from the Southern District of New York join the jamboree originally launched by feds in the Northern District.

NEW YORK (AP)-- For the second time in a month, one of New York State's biggest political figures is going on trial in a case brought by a federal prosecutor crusading against corrupt elected officials.

The quasi-public Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler, placed into ESD custodianship after federal and state prosecutors alleged that bidding processes for construction projects had been rigged by former SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros and others (all of whom maintain their innocence), have not entirely allayed concerns about transparency under their new leadership.

Money laundering was among the many favors that Harendra Singh performed for former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, according to a recently unsealed motion filed by federal prosecutors.

But the far - reaching extent of the investigation by federal prosecutors, the FBI, and special Justice Department criminal investigators, working directly for Eastern District U.S. Attorney Robert Capers, has not been publicly reported, the sources said.

A spokesman for Crystal Run Healthcare confirmed Tuesday that the company was subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, but told The Association Press it received the subpoena a year ago and does not believe it is under active investigation.

A federal investigation into Burke's actions was launched in June 2013 by the civil rights division of the FBI office in Manhattan and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn at the civil rights division of the United States attorney for the Eastern District.

Bellone ticked off a long list of what he said were failings by Spota, including the prosecutor's support for Burke and Spota's blocking of Suffolk police from cooperating with federal agents on the Gilgo Beach murders.

A federal prosecutor, Howard S. Master, in a summation, cited what he called the «core principle» that «this nation shall be governed by the people and for the people.»

«He fought to uphold the law and bring justice to those who break it as a former federal prosecutor, and he's continued that commitment by fighting for stronger ethics laws in the state legislature.

Todd Kaminsky (D - Long Beach), a former federal prosecutor, cast himself as the anticorruption candidate as he announced his candidacy for the State Senate seat vacated by Dean Skelos, who was convicted of bribery, extortion, and conspiracy charges in December.

For the monitorship of SAC Capital Advisors, which had reached an insider trading settlement in 2014, Schwartz was chosen by the company itself, and approved by an anonymous panel of federal prosecutors, who often do not disclose the names of those picked, he wrote.

The federal prosecutor paid $ 14,000 to place ads on billboards owned by Clear Channel for 30 days, in advance of the election.

If you're looking for a guide to the upcoming federal corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco and businessmen Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, look no further than the jury questionnaire recently agreed to by prosecutors and the defense.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was grilled by heavy - hitting federal prosecutors about his campaign fundraising for over four hours today.

Long Island Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor, officially announced his campaign for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat, and was immediately endorsed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (via press release).