Sentences with phrase «by investigators probing»

Mayor de Blasio admitted for the first time Wednesday he was interviewed by investigators probing his campaign fund - raising — but he refused to offer even basic details about his sit - down with the Manhattan DA's office.

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The director would not say whether the probe has turned up evidence that Trump associates may have schemed with Russians during a campaign marked by email hacking that investigators believe was aimed at helping the Republican defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Billionaire Vincent Bollore was charged by French investigators as part of a probe into the possible use of bribes in two African countries to obtain port contracts from public officials, according to a statement from his company.

Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, Jared Kushner, and Roger Stone were among those being looked at by federal investigators, reports said, amid the FBI and congressional probes into whether any Trump associates acted as agents of the Kremlin, wittingly or not.

According to two sources briefed on parent company 21st Century Fox's outside probe of the Fox News executive, led by New York — based law firm Paul, Weiss, Kelly has told investigators that Ailes made unwanted sexual advances toward her about ten years ago when she was a young correspondent at Fox.

A report by Chicago CBS 2 investigators and the Better Government Association detailed further abuses and alleged fraud in North - Grand's lunch program, effectively broadening the scope of the district's probe.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's spokeswoman Jennifer Freeman noted that email trails are often used by investigators to catch government officials engaged in wrongdoing, and if those trails are no longer available, it could curtail corruption - busting probes.

The contract between Cuomo's office and Guidepost Solutions LLC, the firm of private investigator Bart Schwartz that was hired to probe the Buffalo Billion and nanotech - related state projects, was approved by the comptroller's office on June 7.

NYPD Inspector Michael Ameri, who was the head of the department's highways unit, was questioned by investigators in March, but was not a target of the probe, according to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.

► Michael Ameri - An inspector who was head of the NYPD's Highways Division was questioned by federal investigators in March, but was not considered to be a target of the probe.

As part of the probe, investigators have scrutinized McAuliffe's time as a board member of the Clinton Global Initiative, a vehicle of the charitable foundation set up by former President Bill Clinton.

The sprawling rehabilitation network created over five decades by the Rev. Peter Young is collapsing, and his lawyer is working to stave off state investigators attempting to get a criminal indictment from a nearly three - year probe of Young's organization.

In fact, it was only after probing by the Times Union's Casey Seiler that we learned from the governor that the investigator, Bart Schwartz, a former chief of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney's office, was working under the authority of the Moreland Act.

In a letter dated Monday to Bart Schwartz, the investigator hired by the Executive Chamber to probe possible violations in upstate development contracts and grants, Beck's attorney Richard Pert addressed subsequent interactions between Beck and Howe.

Among other things, according to people who have been interviewed by investigators, the grand jury probe is trying to determine whether Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's re-election effort benefited improperly from money in the federal fund.

The probe now appears to have widened, as investigators also are looking for records involving a power plant proposed in the Hudson Valley by Maryland - based Competitive Power Ventures.

Newsday reported Saturday that federal investigators are probing whether Spota and one of his chief assistants took part in a cover - up of an assault by former Suffolk Police Chief of Department James Burke of a burglary suspect, according to sources.

A lawyer for the Trump transition team said Mueller's investigators improperly reviewed some emails from transition officials, an allegation that comes amid charges of bias by the special counsel's probe.

Federal investigators are reportedly probing a college run by the wife of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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In fact, Rattner was also being advised by his lawyers to make himself a lower - profile target for federal and state investigators who were probing whether he had paid off a middleman to win a lucrative contract from New York's pension system while he worked on Wall Street, a government source said Wednesday.

UPDATE: A source familiar with Cuomo's probe said the case was based on testing done by undercover investigators more than a year ago.

Landlord Moishe Indig and other leaders of Williamsburg's Hasidic community are being questioned by federal investigators in their widening probe into Mayor Bill de...

Probes by city investigators and the city comptroller's office later found significant bungling and miscommunication by city officials in lifting the deed restrictions, but nothing illegal.

JAMAICA — Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills is one of seven elected officials who was recorded on a wiretap worn by former state Sen. Shirley Huntley, court documents revealed Wednesday, but the council member said investigators told him he is not the subject of a probe.

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.

Immediately after the subpoena was received by the Executive Chamber, Cuomo's administration announced the hiring of outside investigator Bart Schwartz to conduct a probe into potential improper lobbying and conflicts of interest in the upstate development projects.

Investigators, according to sources familiar with the probe, are specifically looking into money Pigeon's campaign committee, WNY Progressive Caucus, spent on campaign literature created by Grant and Casey.

Newsday has reported that federal prosecutors and investigators had been probing whether Spota and McPartland took part in the cover - up of the assault by Burke on Christopher Loeb, who stole a duffel bag from the chief's department SUV, parked in front of Burke's St. James home in December 2012.

And while much of the back - and - forth communication between the governor and his aides is private, it could be subject to subpoena by ethics investigators, prosecutors and possibly members of the Legislature in the event of a probe.

The group said they also want to hand over their documents to the investigator that Cuomo appointed to review the questions raised by the federal probe.

The contract between Governor Andrew Cuomo's office and Guidepost Solutions LLC, the firm of private investigator Bart Schwartz that was hired to probe the Buffalo Billion and nanotech - related state projects, was approved by the comptroller's office on June 7,

Investigators also probed the 2007 sale of a 3.3 - acre parcel in Halfmoon to state Sen. Kathleen Marchione by Landmark Development Group, a land acquisition arm for Robert Marini Builders.

The advocates also called on Cuomo to release any report handed to him by private investigator Bart Schwartz, who was hired by the administration this spring after the governor's office was served with a federal subpoena related to the development probe.

The investigators confirmed the activity of genes at the newly identified loci by probing discarded corneal tissue from deceased individuals with and without Fuchs.

Dry soil should not move that way, so a team led by Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for the probe's camera, proposed that liquid water carried the soil downhill.

Driven by their inquisitive nature, investigators have the freedom to follow their research wherever it leads, and work closely with their colleagues in all institutes to deeply probe important questions in biomedicine.

The investigator is responsible for demonstrating a reliable scheme for identifying targeted ES cell clones by Southern analysis with 5» and 3» probes by providing results from pilot experiments for this purpose.

Ongoing research, such as that being conducted by IES's Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C - SAIL), on which I am a co-principal investigator, is probing key assumptions of the newest generation of standards - based reform.

People familiar with the service member probe cautioned that while federal investigators by August had a firm grasp on the extent of the alleged wrongdoing regarding Sallie Mae's servicing of private student loans, the probe was ongoing.

US President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon is being advised by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, as he prepares to face investigators probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.

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Kushner Cos. has been probed by investigators and lawmakers as it does deals while Jared Kushner is in the White House.