Sentences with phrase «federal probe got»
Cuomo has distanced himself from Percoco and Howe since the spring, when word of the widening federal probe got out.
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«I also understand the political motive for such accusations as the grand jury investigation» — a federal probe into state Democrats» funding of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's 2014 re-election campaign — «gets deeper and closer to the Democratic Party,» Fasano wrote.
Since the federal probe became publicly known, Howe's image has emerged as an affable guy to see for help in getting state funding or access to Albany power.
He got dragged into the federal corruption probe when he was caught on a wire offering a bribe to Nelson Castro, a Bronx assemblyman who had agreed to cooperate with the government to get out of a perjury charge.
Former Congressman Rev. Floyd Flake, an investor in Aqueduct Entertainment Group and the leader of a publicly - subsidized housing empire in Queens, is coming under close scrutiny as a federal probe into the selection the new Aqueduct racino operator gets underway.
De Blasio also justified the activities of the Campaign for One New York, now the subject of a federal probe, asserting he had gotten the prior approval of the city Conflict of Interest Board and that the nonprofit had proved crucial to promoting the «laudable goals» of universal prekindergarten and affordable housing.
Before Jona Rechnitz got caught up in a federal campaign finance probe, he was just another mid-level wheeler - dealer in the New York real estate...
Two state - affiliated development corporations at the center of a federal corruption probe operated for years without rules commonly used by government agencies to promote competition, discourage favoritism and get the best deal for taxpayers when choosing companies to do business -LSB-...]
Lawmakers had more trouble getting agreements on ethics reforms, in a year that's seen the two former legislative leaders sentenced to prison and state and federal probes of Governor Cuomo's economic development programs.
Two state - affiliated development corporations at the center of a federal corruption probe operated for years without rules commonly used by government agencies to promote competition, discourage favoritism and get the best deal for taxpayers when choosing companies to do business with.
Lawyers for six former trustees suing to get their positions back after they were kicked out by Mayor de Blasio and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz revealed in court papers the library has retained a high - powered former federal judge to probe leaks that led to a series of stories in The News about library director Thomas Galante's $ 392,000 salary and his free - spending ways.
The US Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Facebook violated a 2011 decree that requires the company to get consent from users before sharing information, while the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, which is leading the probe in Europe, is combing through the evidence it collected during a search of the offices of Cambridge Analytica on March 23.