Sentences with phrase «first grand jury investigation»

The attorney general's probe marks the first grand jury investigation of a sitting district attorney by Schneiderman's office since Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order in 2015 giving Schneiderman authority to intervene in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

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The investigation, which is being led by the U.S. Department of Labor, was revealed last month when a federal grand jury subpoena was sent to the Rockland County PEF union formerly headed by Deborah J. Lee, whose purchases first drew scrutiny within her union's ranks two years ago.

According to the Times, which first reported the investigation in April, Bharara's office began presenting evidence to a grand jury and has issued subpoenas to eight of Skelos» colleagues in the chamber's Long Island delegation.

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Open Whisper Systems, a maker of a widely used encryption app called Signal, received a subpoena in the first half of the year for subscriber information and other details associated with two phone numbers that came up in a federal grand jury investigation in Virginia.