Sentences with phrase «federal probe»

A sprawling federal probe into whether de Blasio or his aides had given favors in exchange for donations to the group and his 2013 campaign ultimately ended with no charges earlier this year.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2009, but released in 2014 because of good conduct and cooperation in federal probes.

He's not the only one eyeing the district's top education job, amid an ongoing federal probe.

The attorney general has been silent about the commission, but says he has a very good reason not to speak because there's an ongoing federal probe.

The call for an SEC inquiry is the latest in a growing chorus of lawmakers, politicians and activists pressing for federal probes into Exxon's handling of climate change.

Empire State Development Corporation Chair Howard Zemsky says his agency is cooperating fully with federal probe.

Bharara, speaking on the weekend news show ABC This Week, told host George Stephanopoulos that he expects to prove there is corruption in the Cuomo administration, as well as in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office, which is also facing federal probes.

The Shomrim was part of an ongoing federal probe involving two businessmen and a number of NYPD supervisors — and in 2016, the FBI investigated what role the supervisors may have played in securing gun licenses for members of Shomrim.

Bob Kjellander, Republican National Treasurer (R - IL) Under Federal probe for steering investment contracts to Illinois Teachers Retirement Fund.

Governor Cuomo says a key vote on the next installment of the Buffalo Billion project is merely postponed, not canceled, and he denies that he's feeling «defensive» about the widening federal probe of his administration's economic development projects.

Then they learned that the owner of the toxic lot and the developer who wants to put a 20 - story nursing home there were represented by Kramer Levin, the same law firm that's now representing the mayor in a growing federal probe over possible campaign financing violations.

Republicans are bullish, though, and say they will use upcoming corruption trials — and a new federal probe of hiring practices revealed on Friday — and the still - lagging upstate economy as cornerstones of any campaign.

Governor Cuomo, facing questions about the on going federal probe of contracts associated with his Buffalo Billion economic development project, was reluctant to say much about the progress of the investigation.

Mr Grimm is reeling from several controversies, including a reported federal probe into his fund - raising and his threat to throw a reporter off a balcony, and is up against an aggressive and well - financed challenger in Mr. Recchia.

The governor has been busy grappling with a separate federal probe into his own administration that has ensnared former top aide Joe Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, a longtime Cuomo family friend.

With his poll numbers at an all - time low and several federal probes swirling around City Hall, de Blasio's political weakness would seem like the Senate Republicans» gain.

Cuomo has distanced himself from Percoco and Howe since the spring, when word of the widening federal probe got out.

In addition to boardroom squabbles, Uber's newly minted chief legal officer Tony West will also have to navigate a trade secret battle against Alphabet's self - driving arm, in addition to several federal probes into the company's privacy practices.

The ethics refresher was ordered as the burgeoning federal probe into police corruption has resulted in the transfers of nine officers, including eight high - level supervisors, many of them stripped of their guns and badges, for their dealings with two wealthy Brooklyn businessmen who are also large donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio and were on his Inauguration Team.

The money was part of massive fundraising effort by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio that is now part of sprawling federal probe.

The first federal probe of the Canton - based Judge Rotenberg Educational Center follows demands from more than 30 disability - rights groups.

«The legal tsunami Valeant has created could loom for years to come considering the number of serious federal probes investigating virtually all of Valeant's business practices, not to mention civil lawsuits quickly piling up,» she wrote in a report.

The Environmental Protection Agency is opening internal investigations into Scott Pruitt's $ 50 - a-night condo deal with a lobbyist and other recent allegations, adding to about a dozen federal probes involving...

Peters, who served as de Blasio's campaign treasurer before being named investigations commissioner, has been under fire for not refusing to step aside from the sweeping federal probe that is centered on two wealthy businessmen who were large donors to de Blasio, and who ware embroiled in a gifts - for - favors corruption scandal that has already toppled a handful of top ranking NYPD officials.

The sprawling federal probe evolved from an investigation into favor - trading between public officials and fundraisers and campaign contributors for the mayor.

Meanwhile, the city's Law Department has contracted two top - tier law firms, which will be paid with taxpayer funds, to deal with non-campaign-related aspects of the multifaceted federal probe.

A Dirty Cop at the Top: Pataki's Police Czar Penetrates Federal Probe of Gov's Campaign, Wayne Barrett, Village Voice, 01/20/04

And can you assure us tonight that your office never sought to interfere with the Moreland Commission or any attorney general investigations prompted by it, or even the current federal probe?

In another related federal probe, Bronx restaurateur Hamlet Peralta is accused of stealing money from one of the businessmen embroiled in the NYPD probe as part of a $ 12 million Ponzi scheme around a fake wholesale liquor deal.

The expanding federal probe is examining whether the donors to the Campaign for One New York, which has since been disbanded, received special treatment, sources said.

Espada's counsel, Steve Pigeon, who is also implicated in the latest federal probe, hired an attorney.

A state and federal probe examining the health effects of exposure to groundwater contaminants from aerospace manufacturing operations in Bethpage and Calverton will not be released until the summer.

Neither Mangano nor Walker, who also both have deep roots in Oyster Bay politics — where the ongoing Singh federal probe has been investigating possible political corruption — has been accused of any wrongdoing in either the Skelos or the Singh cases.

The two - year federal probe started with a corruption tip involving Banks and eventually snared numerous police officials taking free meals, gifts and even trips from businessmen Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who were members of de Blasio's Inauguration Committee.

Nationwide, departments are scrutinized like never before when an officer kills a civilian — and some have undergone federal probes.

After a major federal probe of nationwide - campus assaults broke last year, all 64 - SUNY campuses adopted the «Enough is Enough» sexual assault prevention policy.

He first met with Offinger, who faced scrutiny during a now - closed federal probe into Hizzoner's fundraising practices in 2013.

[Federal probe into Trump's lawyer seeks records about two women who alleged affairs with the president]

Liu was not charged in the case, which followed a lengthy federal probe of so - called «straw» donors whose contributions were reimbursed by others.

Multiple federal probes focusing on the NYPD and de Blasio's fundraising, as well as alleged favors to NYPD officers, have so far led to one arrest and several officers to be reassigned or disciplined.

More people will be arrested as a result of the wide - ranging federal probe into police corruption, an NYPD official said Friday — two days after the city correction - union boss was...

Litwin's name has also surfaced in federal probes of both former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Bharara, speaking on the weekend news show ABC This Week, told host George Stephanopoulos that he expects to prove there's corruption in the Cuomo administration, as well as in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office, which is also facing federal probes.

Cuomo has so far paid over $ 100,000 for a criminal defense lawyer to represent him amid an ongoing federal probe about his interactions with and the dissolution of the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.

There are also federal probes involving a former top aide and a close associate of Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration, as well as investigations into some acts by New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio's administration.

The targets of a new federal probe into possible antitrust violations related to early - decision college admissions include Wesleyan University, Middlebury College and Pomona College, as well as at least four other highly selective liberal - arts schools.

Cuomo was asked about the on going federal probe of the Buffalo Billion project, and says he «doesn't know much about it.»

Supporters said recent controversies involving prosecutors, including a reported federal probe of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office and allegations of wrongdoing against upstate St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain, have given the measure new momentum.

Mangano's chief deputy, Rob Walker, admitted under a grant of immunity during the trial that he was being investigated in a separate federal probe for allegedly awarding county contracts to campaign contributors.