Sentences with phrase «investigated by federal prosecutors»

Schaffer also said Sini would be a great candidate for county executive or district attorney, but he's already told the police commissioner that if District Attorney Thomas Spota runs for re-election this year, Spota — who is being investigated by federal prosecutors over whether he had a role in the Burke cover - up — will have the party's «strong support.»

De Blasio and several aides were also investigated by federal prosecutors for exchanging favorable city action for campaign donations.

And Cuomo himself has been investigated by federal prosecutors but has not been accused of wrongdoing.

While testifying at the unrelated corruption trial of former State Sen. Dean Skelos, Walker confirmed he is being investigated by federal prosecutors for what he called «campaign contributions, that contractors received work because of that.»

I fully concur with Senator Ball on this one.Leibell and company dishonestly framed this all as reasonable requests for leniency, as if what he had done was not so bad (and as if he had contritely cooperated with authorities), when in fact the former State Senator has been defiant in NOT helping Federal prosecutors — AND some of the letters in Leibell's behalf came from people who are still being actively investigated by Federal prosecutors.

De Blasio was investigated by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.

«Ultimately, there is a person who is being investigated by a federal prosecutor.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who is hearing the civil action brought by Waymo, asked federal prosecutors to investigate whether criminal theft of trade secrets had occurred.

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

«Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page report.

The previously unreported testimony from the onetime senior Uber official, as well as interviews conducted by Reuters with five current and former Uber employees, rebuts statements made in an explosive 37 - page letter last year that triggered the internal probe and drew the attention of federal prosecutors, who are still investigating.

Faced with a sprawling investigation by the special counsel in Washington, Trump must also contend with an independent - minded office of federal prosecutors in his hometown, New York, who are investigating Cohen.

Faced with a sprawling investigation by the special counsel in Washington, President Trump must also contend with an independent - minded office of federal prosecutors in his hometown, New York, who are investigating his longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen.

The payments are currently being investigated by the office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and federal prosecutors at the office of the Eastern District of New York.

A March 8, 2016, story reported that attempts to investigate Suffolk County Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh «were thwarted at every turn by Spota and others,» according to a filing by federal prosecutors a week before jury selection in Walsh's criminal trial was set to begin.

Federal prosecutors have begun investigating the roles played by Cuomo and members of his staff in the commission's demise.

He also said the charges raised by Morales and Cumberbatch were exhaustively reviewed by the same federal and state prosecutors who investigated the administration and decided in March not to pursue criminal charges.

Bart Schwartz, the former federal prosecutor hired by Cuomo to investigate potential fraud in the state's Buffalo Billion program, has retained New York City PR firm Montieth & Co..

But with politics at play — given that Como is seeking re-election — federal prosecutors have begun investigating the roles played by Cuomo and members of his staff in the commission's demise, WCBS 880's Paul Murnane reported.

The session began with a closed door meeting by Senate Republicans, the first time that the majority party members met together since the publication of a New York Times report that says federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and his son, for possible corruption.

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.

Some of their contract awards — often to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's major campaign donors — are now being investigated by state and federal prosecutors.