Sentences with phrase «by federal prosecutors over»

Schaffer also said Sini would be a great candidate for county executive or district attorney, but he's already told the police commissioner that if District Attorney Thomas Spota runs for re-election this year, Spota — who is being investigated by federal prosecutors over whether he had a role in the Burke cover - up — will have the party's «strong support.»

In addition to being scrutinized by federal prosecutors over his Moreland role, he's made almost as many personal enemies as did Eliot Spitzer, an irony given that Cuomo recognized that Spitzer's arrogance left him with no friends when he needed them most.

Mr. Espada is also under investigation by the Bronx district attorney's office about whether he actually lives in Westchester, and by federal prosecutors over the health clinics.

What if charges are filed by federal prosecutors over this, only the poor schnook (Natoli) that signed the instruments will face charges and the Senators that condone his actions will leave the guy high and dry.

Not exact matches

Federal prosecutors also said they expect to begin handing over copies of all the documents and other material they seized to Cohen and his attorneys starting April 27, with plans to finish handing over most of the material by May 11, with the exception of several cellphones, which are locked and likely have to be decrypted by experts at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.

His decision to abandon the suits in their early stages came as he faces a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York over his private financial and business dealings.

A battle between Rep. Dan Donovan and his GOP primary opponent, former Rep. Michael Grimm, over the Reform Party line has been referred by the state Board of Elections to federal prosecutors.

DiNapoli said his plan would restore oversight by the comptroller over the contracts, and ban the use of nonprofit entities that federal prosecutors say were used to mask the illegal schemes.

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

Faulkner's comments came during a news conference announcing a Manhattan Supreme Court suit — first reported by The Post — over the $ 13.6 million in city money spent on lawyers who represented de Blasio and several «underlings» in connection with investigations by federal and city prosecutors.

A Westchester smoked - fish shop that once got Oprah Winfrey's seal of approval is being sued by Manhattan federal prosecutors over repeated outbreaks of Listeria.

Federal prosecutors plan to sue New York City over widespread civil rights violations in the handling of adolescent inmates at Rikers Island, making clear their dissatisfaction with the city's progress in reining in brutality by guards and improving conditions at the jail complex.

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

The margin in favor of Mr. Kaminsky, an assemblyman and former federal prosecutor, over Republican Christopher T. McGrath, a personal injury lawyer, stood at 780 votes out of some 68,000 cast by Nassau County residents on the South Shore.

Former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, who was recently charged by federal prosecutors with soliciting over $ 300,000 in bribes in return for state contracts, is an executive at Madison Square Garden.

But that sentiment wasn't shared by six members of Congress, who wrote a letter last week to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting a federal prosecutor take over the case.

CONEY ISLAND, NY — A Brooklyn state assemblywoman allegedly bilked the city and federal governments out of more than $ 59,000 by running four fraud schemes over more than three years, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

«The federal Pacer system shows that Mr. Trenkler has been represented in a number of proceedings in federal court over the last seventeen years by very competent counsel who (I am assuming from your correspondence) have not chosen to pursue further the issue you raise of inducements supposedly offered by prosecutors to the witness,» Vecchione wrote.

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According to US Sentencing Commission data, in Fiscal Year 2012, federal prosecutors brought over 84,000 cases to sentencing, whereas by Fiscal Year 2016, federal prosecutors brought fewer than 67,750 cases to sentencing.