Sentences with phrase «investigation of his former top aide»

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Bharara launched at least two investigations into Cuomo's office, including one that resulted in the conviction of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco earlier this year.

The poll was conducted after the news that the FBI director James Comey was again examining some of Clinton's State Department emails after more messages were found during a criminal investigation of her top aide's husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A former top aide for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and several others are under investigation over improper lobbying tactics and conflicts of interest in connection to the «Buffalo Billion» project.

There are also federal probes involving a former top aide and a close associate of Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration, as well as investigations into some acts by New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio's administration.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's scandal - wracked office is in «lockdown» with tight - lipped aides fearful that US Attorney Preet Bharara's ongoing investigation of former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe may snare other officials, administration sources have told The Post.

Looming in the background is Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York whose tenure included multiple investigations of state officials for corruption, indicting a top aide to Mr. Cuomo and the top two legislative leaders in Albany.

Associates of the governor, including lobbyist Todd Howe and former top aide Joe Percoco under investigation as part of a broader probe.

The NY Post's Fred Dicker reports Team Cuomo is on «lockdown,» with tight - lipped aides fearful that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's ongoing investigation of the governor's former top aide Joseph Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe may snare other officials.

John Ciampoli, a former Nassau County official responsible for signing off on the deal at the center of a reported federal investigation into Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is a former and current top aide to Skelos.

Multiple state public authorities hired law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP to represent them amid a Manhattan U.S. Attorney's investigation that led to corruption charges against a former top Cuomo aide and seven other individuals, according to an engagement letter for a separate contract obtained Tuesday by The Alt through a Freedom of Information Law request.

None of the agencies, or their employees, appear to be targets of the wide - ranging investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which brought charges last fall against former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros, top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, and several private sector executives.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the WAMC Locked Box, President Donald Trump says he's looking forward to talk to speaking with federal prosecutors regarding the Russian investigation, and the trial of former top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco.

A federal investigation of two former top aides to Andrew Cuomo, including Howe, is threatening to taint the Democratic governor's signature economic development efforts even as it adds to Albany's reputation for insider dealing.

The governor subsequently said the federal investigation, being conducted by the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara, seems to be focused on the actions of two of his longtime associates, lobbyist Todd Howe and former top aide Joe Percoco.

The poll was conducted after the news that the FBI director James Comey was again examining some of Clinton's State Department emails, after more messages were found during a criminal investigation of her top aide's husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner.

Percoco — Cuomo's former top aide and close friend and, since December, senior vice president at Madison Square Garden — and Cuomo family associate Todd Howe are the subject of an explosive investigation by Bharara over the fees they received helping clients with business before the state.

In December, Schneiderman sent a similar letter lambasting Cuomo's proposal to create a special criminal prosecutor to handle procurement matters — an action seen as a response to the federal investigation into upstate development projects that resulted in the arrest of a former top aide to the governor, among others.

Update, 5:17 p.m. The director of the state's top ethics oversight panel violated state law by leaking details about an investigation into former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration to one of Mr. Spitzer's aides, according to a blistering report released on Wednesday by State Inspector General Joseph Fisch.

Officials awaiting trial or retrial, as a result of the federal investigations, include former Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and his top aide, Christopher McPartland; Mangano's former chief assistant, Rob Walker, and Hempstead Town Councilman Edward Ambrosino.

Likewise, there were Eric Massa, a former New York congressman who resigned after admitting to an inappropriate exchange with a state aide, and former Senator John Ensign of Nevada, who resigned during an ethics investigation related to his affair with the wife of a former top aide.

ALBANY — A former Nassau County official responsible for signing off on the deal at the center of a reported federal investigation into State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is a former and current top aide to Skelos, Capital has learned.

There also are federal probes involving a former top aide and a close associate of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, as well as investigations into some acts by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration.

The company had close ties with two men now at the center of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's investigation into the Cuomo administration's economic development efforts: lobbyist Todd Howe and former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco.

Representative Gibson, a retired Army colonel with 24 years of active - duty experience in the military and six in Congress, was widely seen as the strongest Republican contender to pose a challenge to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat who has battled questions over the last several days about a federal investigation into a former top aide and confidant.

The federal investigation into one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's signature upstate economic development programs has come to focus on one of his former top aides, several people familiar with the matter said on Friday.