Sentences with phrase «jury probe»

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

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

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.

The ongoing grand jury probe by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Manhattan is being conducted independently of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. elections, the prosecutors said.

Subpoenas connected to a federal grand jury probing Pigeon have reportedly also been issued in recent days.

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.

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.

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.

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

Kenneth Lovett, Barbara Ross, and Greg B. Smith, Federal Grand Jury Probes Real Estate and Nonprofit Deals for Malcolm Smith, Other Queens Pols,

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.

The site, shown in an undated photo, was the focus of a 2011 Suffolk County grand jury probe into whether town officials had persuaded a developer to illegally demolish structures on the site as tax savings.

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

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.

He admitted obstructing a grand jury probe into whether or not he had extorted money from lawyers doing work for Putnam County and to filing false tax returns.

NY1's Josh Robin caught up today with GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino at Hofstra's «Renew New York» event and asked the Buffalo businessman about reports that his campaign's political director, John Haggerty, is the target of a grand jury probe.

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.

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.

Two state lawmakers 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.

The Senate Democrats proposals also come as the New York Times reports that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has opened a grand jury probe into whether the Cuomo administration interfered with Moreland Commission investigations that might have reflected badly on the governor or his major campaign donors.

He admitted obstructing a grand jury probe into whether or not he had extorted money from

His stunning arrest capped a secret grand jury probe that began in June 2013, and marked the latest in a string of public corruption cases spearheaded by crusading Bharara.

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.

Christopher McPartland, Spota's top corruption prosecutor, is the target of a federal grand jury probe, Newsday has reported.

Just hours earlier, he voluntarily appeared before the grand jury probing the campaign finances of Maziarz and the Niagara County Republican Committee.

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.

A top campaign adviser to Mayor Bloomberg — who won't explain how he spent $ 750,000 of the mayor's money — is now the target of a grand - jury probe.

«This smells of corrupt use of government authority at the highest levels,» said Democratic State Sen. Ray Lesniak, who called for a federal grand - jury probe, rather than a state investigation that could be influenced by the Christie administration.

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.

That angered US Attorney Preet Bharara, who has subpoenaed the disbanded commission's records, and launched a grand jury probe into whether Cuomo's appointees on the commission tried to steer probes away form anyone associated with the governor.