ALBANY — The hits keep
coming from federal prosecutors in the capital, with the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate becoming the latest legislator to be indicted.
Not exact matches
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.
The poll
comes weeks after
federal prosecutors launched an investigation into Cuomo's decision to shut down an anti-corruption panel — a move that critics say was designed to prevent the panel
from scrutinizing his administration.
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo will «set aside» campaign contributions
from COR Development and LPCiminelli, which
federal prosecutors allege
came to the governor's purse at the urging of a lobbyist involved in several bid - rigging schemes.
The statement
comes as Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is facing an investigation
from federal prosecutors over potentially placing undue influence on an Arizona company that employed his son Adam.
Federal prosecutors said the money
came from Carlo Lizza & Sons Paving Inc., as well as the Lizza family trust.
The $ 2 million Ippolito did not pay taxes on
came from Carlo Lizza & Sons of Old Bethpage, a paving contractor that has worked for the town, as well as a Lizza family trust,
federal prosecutors have said.
The mailer
from McGrath
comes after Kaminsky released his first TV ad of the campaign, which focuses heavily on ethics and fighting government corruption in pointing to the candidate's resume as a
federal prosecutor.
Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, predicts that there will be some kind of token reform passed before lawmakers leave for the summer, but he says the real changes are
coming not
from the state level, but form the
federal prosecutor's office.