During intense questioning by the commissioners, Board of Elections officials admitted that they failed to follow up on hundreds of complaints and potential
election law violations over the past several years.
Not exact matches
The payment has prompted complaints to the Justice Department and Federal
Election Commission
over potential
violations of campaign finance
law.
Syracuse, NY — Any semblance of peace between Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney and the leadership of her own political party has vaporized amid battles
over political patronage and a grand jury investigation into allegations of
election law violations.
The attorney general also has little oversight
over election law violations unless the governor compels the office to investigate them.
Maziarz, 64, was indicted, along with Sen. Rob Ortt, a North Tonawanda Republican and Maziarz's successor in the Senate, in a March 2017 case brought by Schneiderman
over alleged
election law violations.
Back in the spring, he crunched numbers from the New York State Board of
Elections and found that there were more than 100,000 potential campaign finance
law violations by candidates
over a two - year period.
He was also charged with two misdemeanor counts of misconduct in relation to petitions in
violation of state
election law related to an attempt to take
over the Rockland County Republican Committee by packing it with his supporters