Sentences with phrase «federal probe into»

The announcement came less than a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that a federal probe into the cryptocurrency market was underway.

When asked after a town hall event in Berlin, N.H. whether she would call for a federal probe into Exxon, Clinton replied, «Yes, yes, they should.

In one 2015 tweet, Oreskes posted a link to a Salon story about then - presidential candidate Bernie Sanders calling for a federal probe into alleged climate science malfeasance.

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...

And former City College President Lisa Coico stepped down last year amid a federal probe into alleged financial misconduct.

As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, an ongoing federal probe into de Blasio's campaign financing and the NYPD, and a whole lot of other things, apparently influenced how city residents view the mayor.

«Though sources say the federal probe into his campaign finances contributed to the decision to reject him, there was no official statement released that justified why he was denied the slot,» according to the letter, which was signed by a slew of leaders in the community.

This comes after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo directed state agencies to suspend all communications and regulatory proceedings related to CPV amid a federal probe into his former top aide and CPV's permitting process.

Rep. Meeks and some of his closest political allies in New York, including Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith and former Rep. Floyd Flake (D - NY), his predecessor in Congress, are the subject of a federal probe into their dealings with several nonprofit groups.41 According to press reports, investigators are looking into whether Rep. Meeks and the others used the groups to «benefit themselves, their families, and their friends.»

It also spurred a federal probe into the mayor's relationship with NYCLASS, which had sandbagged his main 2013 primary opponent, former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, with negative advertising.

MIDTOWN — One day after saying he would no longer speak about the federal probe into his fundraising activities, Mayor Bill de Blasio hired a white collar criminal lawyer to reach out to the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

The Brooklyn businessman's arrest is connected to an ongoing federal probe into high - ranking NYPD officials receiving money and gifts in exchange for favors.

The mixed messaging added another day of confusion about what exactly Trump wants to know — and do — about presidential pardons relating to the federal probe into his campaign.

Hizzoner also said a federal probe into NYCHA's handling of lead hazards could be completed shortly and result in the imposition of a court - appointed monitor.

After the Daily News reported last week that Howe was part of a federal probe into the Buffalo Billion and other nanotechnoclogy projects, the governor's office ordered that all state agencies cease any contact with the lobbyist.

Cuomo paid the $ 100,000 to Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello, which has been representing the governor's office in a federal probe into the administration's handling of the now defunct anti-corruption commission Cuomo created to investigate the Legislature, but then abruptly killed months later.

Jim Heaney of Investigative Post discusses the latest developments in the federal probe into the Buffalo Billion program with Jay Moran of WBFO.

Both of those entities are caught up in the ongoing federal probe into Cuomo's Buffalo Billion upstate economic development initiative.

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.

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

The FBI raided the homes of two men close to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as part of the widening federal probe into Albany corruption, The Post has learned.

Mayor de Blasio ducked a barrage of questions Wednesday about the federal probe into his fund - raising operation and the abrupt firing of a city official tied to the controversial sale of a Lower East Side nursing home.

Two consulting firms with links to State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. are the subject of a federal probe into alleged tax fraud and money laundering, numerous newspapers and blogs are reporting.

The Post reports that the files date back to 1995, and the seizure is part of the federal probe into his controversial consulting business.

Independent NYC mayoral candidate Bo Dietl asked U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reopen the federal probe into de Blasio's fundraising after damaging testimony Rechnitz, whom he called a «sleaze bag,» but not a liar.

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.

The mayor said his fundraising was within the law and decried leaks about the federal probe into it.

Todd Howe, president of WOH Government Solutions, this week was included on a list of lobbyists from his parent firm, Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, who are representing COR Development and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, two entities that have been caught up in the federal probe into Cuomo's Buffalo Billion upstate economic development initiative.

Paul «Effy» Raps and Yaron Turgeman each forked over the maximum $ 4,950 in donations bundled by businessman Jona Rechnitz, who is at the center of a federal probe into NYPD corruption and shady de Blasio campaign finances.

An executive order signed last week will require chaplains to be active clergy members and also live in Westchester County comes as a response to a federal probe into whether -LSB-...]

MANHATTAN — Deputy Chief Andrew Capul, the executive officer of the NYPD's Patrol Borough Manhattan North, was placed on administrative duty Wednesday in connection to the ongoing federal probe into corruption at the NYPD and City Hall, the NYPD said.

In December, he went so far to tell fellow Democrats that if a federal probe into de Blasio's fundraising resulted in an indictment, he planned to run against him in the primary.

Both firms are also big Cuomo donors and, like Percoco, are caught up in a federal probe into the governor's «Buffalo Billion» economic development program and nanotechnology initiatives.

His «Buffalo Billion» initiative, meanwhile, is now the subject of a federal probe into improper lobbying and potential fraud by a pair of close Cuomo associates.

We did everything appropriately here,» de Blasio said Monday, in his first comments since the Daily News reported on the federal probe into the sale last week.

Mr. Bellone last year said Mr. Spota was running «a criminal enterprise» and called for his resignation amid reports of a federal probe into alleged misconduct by Mr. Spota's prosecutors.

Democratic senators are demanding the government investigate the «news activities» of the Sinclair Broadcasting Group, saying they want a federal probe into a private news organization because they are «strong defenders of the First Amendment.»

The federal probe into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's upstate development projects has extended to several members of the governor's inner circle, including his former aide Joe Percoco, longtime lobbyist Todd Howe, and companies who have worked on a portfolio of upstate economic development projects.

At the same time, the administration revealed that two longtime Cuomo confidants, former Executive Deputy Secretary Joe Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, were among the targets of the federal probe into improper lobbying and conflicts of interest.

NYPD officials have reassigned another high - ranking officer amid a federal probe into whether officers accepted gifts from businessmen with ties to de Blasio.

A mystery business, Chris Pitts LLC, has emerged near the center of the federal probe into former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco outside business interests.

A former top NYPD cop, Phillip Banks III, received up to $ 500,000 in investment income from a real estate firm run by one of two Borough Park businessman at the center of a federal probe into possible police corruption, city records show.

Over in the Assembly, longtime Speaker Sheldon Silver faces a federal probe into his outside income from a small law firm.

He also said his office is cooperating with a federal probe into the NYPD.

Indig — who held a fundraiser for de Blasio in 2013 and, according to The New York Times, is now a focus in the ongoing federal probe into de Blasio's fundraising efforts — forwarded Kaff and Kornitzer's request to the mayor's deputy director of intergovernmental affairs Avi Fink and senior adviser Lincoln Restler.

The state and federal probe into the de Blasio Administration has expended to include Emma Wolfe, the mayor's director of intergovernmental affairs, as well as union officials and consulting firms with longstanding ties to City Hall, WCBS 880's Stephanie Colombini reported.

MIDTOWN — Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is being «singled out» by a federal probe into his efforts to raise money for upstate senate candidates in 2014 and that a «double standard» was being applied around election laws he's accused of violating.

I asked Pilgrim - Hunter if she was aware of the latest news regarding the federal probe into Espada's alleged tax fraud and money laundering, she said she was.

In Brooklyn, Mr. de Blasio said his administration is cooperating with a federal probe into alleged corruption at the New York Police Department that involves two former members of his inaugural committee.

Sources have told The Post that Percoco is at the center of a federal probe into what Cuomo's office last week called «questions of improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest by some individuals which may have deceived state employees involved in the respective programs and may have defrauded the state.»