Sentences with phrase «from federal prosecutor bharara»

A flurry of subpoenas from federal prosecutor Bharara, the first served on the governor's office, left no doubt New York's chief executive and his extensive inner circle are now included in an ever broadening corruption inquiry involving the letting of state contracts and illegal conflicts of interest and lobbying.

Not exact matches

Bharara, constrained from endorsements and opining as a federal prosecutor, has let his hair down on Twitter in recent weeks since he was fired President Donald Trump, posting pointed thoughts on issues ranging from the investigation into Russian meddling in the election to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the MTA.

Cohen is blocked from commodities trading until 2018 due to an investigation by Preet Bharara, the former US Attorney who did not make life easy for the governor during his years as a federal prosecutor.

They included Kathleen Rice, a U.S. representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney from Manhattan; Alphonso David, Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Letitia James, the New York City public advocate; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - N.Y.; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

But that event, plus a couple of speeches, earned Bharara a rebuke from a federal judge who criticized the prosecutor for staging a possibly prejudicial «media blitz.»

Bharara said he was speaking as much as a citizen of New York as a federal prosecutor, and said the issue may just be with him, as, being originally from India, «it's like a billion people in the room.»

Cuomo, after receiving a warning letter from US Attorney Bharara last week, has said he will no longer comment on the specifics of the federal probe, but the governor does say he personally has not been asked to speak to federal prosecutors, but he's told his staff to provide the US Attorney with any thing that Bharara wants to know.

The commission was convened by Governor Andrew Cuomo as a response to a number of indictments this spring, and a public shaming from federal prosecutor Preet Bharara, who spoke of Albany's «show - me - the - money» culture.

Bharara took his seat on the east side of the room, behind a row of current former top aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and next to Robert Capers, the federal prosecutor from Brooklyn.