Sentences with phrase «grand jury probes»

Posts contain information about grand jury probes and current cases, as well as commentary on recent court decisions and legislation.

PG&E already faces fines for its role in a fatal explosion of natural gas in San Bruno in 2010, a federal felony indictment connected to the San Bruno blast, and a federal grand jury probe into a gas explosion in Carmel earlier this year.

Two state lawmakers — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sen. Diane Savino — who gave campaign money to now - indicted Brooklyn Assemblywoman Pamela Harris, amid a grand jury probe into her alleged theft of taxpayer money, say they had no idea she was under investigation at the time.

She would not provide more details of the grand jury probe.

The priest was one of the subjects of a grand jury probe, though no charges were ever filed, and a church tribunal in 2009 found no wrongdoing.

Among other things, according to people who have been interviewed by investigators, the grand jury probe is trying to determine whether Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's re-election effort benefited improperly from money in the federal fund.

She disclosed in a court filing obtained by the Times Union that she has a conflict because her husband, Henry, an attorney and former Niagara County GOP chairman, testified two years ago before a federal grand jury probing Maziarz.

The town faces an SEC investigation and a grand jury probe by Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas.

Kristy Mazurek, a former TV reporter best known locally as treasurer of the WNY Progressive Caucus, the political committee at the heart of AG Eric Schneiderman's grand jury probe in Buffalo, is running for the Assembly and cooperating with investigators, but won't discuss the case.

The investigation also examined the actions of Troy police during and after the shooting, although it's unclear whether any police officers or supervisors are targets of the grand jury probe.

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.

In addition, two sources who asked not to be identified but who are familiar with the case, say subpoenas connected to a federal grand jury probing Pigeon have also been issued in recent days.

The grand jury probe dragged on for months and went nowhere.

A former top deputy to Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig of California is among several people ordered to appear before state or federal grand juries probing allegations that Mr. Honig violated conflict - of - interest laws by aiding his wife's consulting firm.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and Manafort's former business associate, Rick Gates, pleaded not guilty on Monday after being indicted by a grand jury in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

But that's a conservative figure, he said, adding, «If I go to the grand jury» as part of the special counsel's probe, «it'll be far more.»

Russia probe ratchets up Special counsel Robert Mueller has empaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C., to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, according to the Wall Street Journal.

That special prosecutor, Roger Adler, told the Daily News he expects to convene a grand jury shortly after Veterans Day as part of his probe into allegations the WFP illegally gave candidates below - cost campaign - related services in 2009.

Sources said the scope of the probe appeared to have expanded and about a month ago the attorney general convened a special grand jury.

«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.

State Sen. Shirley Huntley desperately tried to cover up the theft of $ 30,000 in taxpayer money from her «sham» nonprofit as a grand - jury probe bore down on her, sources claimed and documents indicated yesterday.

Former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet S. Bharara then launched a probe after the Moreland Commission's demise, requiring figures like Wojtaszek and Norris to testify before a federal grand jury.

The Buffalo News has learned of grand jury appearances by several key Maziarz associates in a probe of the former senator, his campaign funds, and the Niagara County Republican Committee.

However, Spota's office did not convene a grand jury to probe the shooting until the publication of the Newsday article, years after the incident.

No sooner had Michael J. Flaherty Jr.'s prosecutors obtained a felony vehicular manslaughter indictment in a hit - and - run case that a grand jury initially probed in 2014, than the acting DA's opponents pounced with questions about his personal involvement.

Indictments could be imminent as a federal grand jury meets this week in an ongoing probe of the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office under former prosecutor Charles Hynes, a source told The New York Post.

State Sen. Robert G. Ortt was scheduled to voluntarily testify before an Albany County grand jury Wednesday in connection with the ongoing probe of former Sen. George D. Maziarz and his campaign finances that has also produced its first guilty plea.

The poll found that by a 58 percent to 33 percent margin, New Yorkers would back giving Schneiderman the power of special prosecutor to probe other instances of police brutality after a grand jury chose to not indict a New York police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

An Albany County grand jury heard testimonyyesterday from at least one key witness in a widening probe of former Sen. George Maziarz and his campaign finances that now also involves former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry Wojtaszek.

An Albany County grand jury indicted two Republican state senators — one sitting (Rob Ortt) and one retired (George Maziarz)-- on felony election law violations, as part of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's probe of election law fraud in Niagara County.

TROY — A Rensselaer County grand jury is investigating two Democratic City Council members and a party operative in the absentee ballot fraud probe stemming from the 2009 Working Families Party primary, according to a witness.

The grand jury's focus, the sources said, is Gary Gordon, a former Rensselaer County district attorney's investigator and former Democratic candidate for sheriff, and Detective Ron Fountain, who retired abruptly last year as the Troy Police Department probed the leak.

Next week also brings the deadline for Abelove to respond to a subpoena for all records related to cases in which he personally handled grand jury proceedings, according to a source with knowledge of the probe.

The order empowers the office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to conduct a public corruption probe of Abelove's conduct, including his decision to present the case to a grand jury that cleared the officer of wrongdoing less than a week after the shooting.

Even after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, sparking nationwide protests, the case promised to drag on for years thanks to a federal civil rights investigation, internal NYPD probe, and civil suit from Garner's family.

Court papers separately filed by COR executives also contain a copy of the grand jury subpoena sent to one of them, Joe Gerardi, on April 29, 2016, which shed some additional light on the information sought during the probe of the Southern District U.S. attorney's office.

Schreibman was the lead investigator on the Ulster County grand - jury probe of the county jail debacle in 2007 - 08.

This is the second grand jury to probe the handling of absentee ballots in the 2009 Working Families Party primary in the city.

He used the occasion to assert that Trump's selection of Sessions was bad news for the ongoing federal probe of Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the cop a grand jury refused to indict for killing the black Staten Islander — and who remains in his position.

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.

State Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son are being probed by the US Attorney's Office, which has convened a grand jury and presented evidence about possible corruption in the latest claim of financial misconduct to rock Albany, sources said.

He also appeared before a Manhattan grand jury convened in 2015 by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara probing Niagara County.

Law enforcement sources told The Post that state senators have been subpoenaed in the investigation and evidence in the probe has been presented to a grand jury.

Meanwhile, state and federal grand juries have been hearing testimony related to the separate probes into the de Blasio administration's fund - raising.

In February, Cuomo signed another order that gave the attorney general specific authority to probe Abelove and to pursue charges against any person for unlawful acts «in any way connected with the incident and its subsequent investigation, including its grand jury presentation.»

In December 2014, a grand jury led by the Staten Island district attorney's office declined to indict, opening the door for a federal probe.

Among other matters, a grand jury is probing the finances of Melius» family foundation and his connections to Steven Schlesinger, former counsel to Nassau Democrats.

The prosecutors sent a grand jury subpoena to the Glenwood real estate company in May 2014 as part of their probe into kickbacks pocketed by Silver, according to the Manhattan federal court papers filed earlier this month.

Indictments could be imminent as a federal grand jury meets this week in an ongoing probe of the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office under former prosecutor Charles Hynes, a source told The Post.

Commissioner Daniel Horwitz, who was appointed by Governor Cuomo, argued against discussing an investigation in public, likening the commission to a grand jury proceeding, and saying it would not be fair to those who are the targets of a probe.