In the summer of 2014, after a series of news stories came out describing Cuomo secretary Larry Schwartz's alleged interference in the management of the governor's Moreland Commission to investigate
corruption in the Legislature, Albany insiders wondered whether Schwartz might give up information about the governor to
federal investigators in the Southern District U.S. attorney Preet Bharara's office, as part of a
probe they had begun into the circumstances
surrounding the commission's demise.