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.
Not exact matches
A fresh
start for Uber: After a turbulent year of executive turnover, sexual harassment allegations, and multiple
federal criminal
probes, Uber could turn a new leaf in 2018.
The company is already facing a number of
federal probes into its privacy practices as it transitions from its former chief legal officer, Salle Yoo, who was not notified about this incident, to Tony West, who will
start this week.
In an unusual step that county Democrats say is politically motivated, a former Rensselaer County prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking
federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury
probe that was
started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election in 2007.