Sentences with phrase «of a federal probe»

His department is at the center of a federal probe into widespread allegations of prisoner abuse.

The programs are also the subject of a federal probe.

The governor was asked by reporters about the economic development contract awards to politically connected campaign contributors, which are at the heart of the federal probe.

Those contracts are a focus of the federal probe.

The mayor has said publicly that he will wait for the outcome of the federal probe before deciding whether to to return their campaign donations to him.

Federal officials are continuing the investigation New York state Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam as part of a federal probe into corruption among state leaders.

At the same time, the administration revealed that two longtime Cuomo confidants, former Executive Deputy Secretary Joe Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, were among the targets of the federal probe into improper lobbying and conflicts of interest.

A former top NYPD cop received up to $ 500,000 in investment income from a real estate firm run by one of two Borough Park businessman at the center of a federal probe into possible police corruption, city records show.

(CNN)- Court papers show the FBI has contacted Chris Christie's former campaign manager as part of a federal probe of a traffic scandal that has upended the New Jersey governor's administration.

A spokesman for New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo says the governor still plans to pursue an ethics reform package during the remainder of the legislative session, after news of a federal probe into actions by Cuomo's former top aide and the governor's ongoing economic development programs.

Two of them are at the center of a federal probe by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into the administration's upstate development deals: Percoco and Todd Howe, a lobbyist who worked for the Albany - based firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna until news of the federal investigation broke in May.

After the FBI released results of a federal probe on Dec. 9, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said he was troubled by the charges and called it a sad day for his department.

The company is already facing a number of federal probes into its privacy practices as it transitions from its former chief legal officer, Salle Yoo, who was not notified about this incident, to Tony West, who will start this week.

Ms. Flowers also worked as counsel to Sen. Smith, but was asked to resign in March 2010, as reports of the federal probe surfaced.

Cuomo, after receiving a warning letter from U.S. 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 U.S. Attorney with anything that Bharara wants to know.

We knew ASM sports agency was raided at the onset of the federal probe.

Trump and his allies have seized on the report to question the origins of the federal probe into his campaign and Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential race, which the president had labeled a «witch hunt.»

Sen. William Larkin (R - Cornwall - on - Hudson) said the meeting didn't include any discussion of the federal probe, but was all about pending legislative issues.

Some lawmakers urged additional scrutiny of PA projects and bids in light of the federal probes of other state - funded projects.

After news of the federal probe broke, Cuomo seemed to walk back the status of the state's approval process, saying it had not yet been finished.

Sharpton said Pantaleo, who was cleared by a Staten Island grand jury, «is clearly taking advantage» of the delay while Garner's family awaits the findings of a federal probe into the case.

Cuomo has distanced himself from Percoco and Howe since the spring, when word of the federal probe got out.

More recently, in the midst of the federal probe into the Buffalo Billion and other state development projects, the governor known for his attention to detail said with a straight face that he wasn't even following the work of then - prosecutor Preet Bharara that threatened to sink his administration.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday he's unaware of any federal probe into the state's economic development efforts in Buffalo and nobody in his office has been subpoenaed.

Ryan said because of the federal probe into the initiative, the legislature has asked the comptroller to take a closer look too.

After more than a year and one - half of federal probes into Sampson's political life that have left the district all but unrepresented, Henry said he wants to make sure the underserved population in the 19th state Senate district gets its due.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide at the center of a federal probe earned over $ 100,000 in income from two firms involved in Governor Cuomo's economic development projects, according to financial disclosure forms.

Howe was fired from his job as president of WOH Government Solutions after news of the federal probe became public.

Two consulting firms with links to State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. are the subject of a federal probe into alleged tax fraud and money laundering, numerous newspapers and blogs are reporting.

This isn't the first time the Cuomo administration has rebranded a failed economic development program: in 2014, its Innovate NY venture capital program became the target of a federal probe, after one of the participants appeared to steer more than $ 1 million in public funds meant for start - ups into companies it already owned.

A state oversight board this week is set to green - light a $ 486 million payment to the SUNY Polytechnic real estate subsidiary that is at the heart of the federal probe into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative.

Lowe — who worked as a lobbyist for Forest City Ratner — was also subpoenaed as part of the federal probe of the company's Ridge Hill development in Yonkers.

Cuomo and the Legislature in 2011 passed a law to stop the state comptroller from reviewing contracts for economic development projects that are now the focus of a federal probe by Bharara's office.

In 2011 Cuomo and the legislature passed a law to stop the state comptroller from reviewing contracts for economic development projects that are now the focus of a federal probe by Bharara's office.

He was stripped of his badge and gun in April as a result of the federal probe, and on May 24, he filed for retirement, in an effort, some sources say, to protect his pension.

At the moment, Uber faces a number of federal probes — from its use of technology to avoid local U.S. regulators to allegations that company officials bribed authorities in China in order to operate there.

ALBANY — While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been downplaying his relationship with Todd Howe, a lobbyist at the center of a federal probe of his administration, records show that Howe was steering developers to contribute to the Cuomo campaign as recently as five months ago.

Mr. Bellone last year said Mr. Spota was running «a criminal enterprise» and called for his resignation amid reports of a federal probe into alleged misconduct by Mr. Spota's prosecutors.

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.

Mr. Rechnitz is now at the center of a federal probe into whether he gave improper gifts to NYPD brass, and into the $ 50,000 he gave to the mayor's now - defunct political nonprofit Campaign for One New York.

Cuomo, a Democrat, told reporters in Skaneateles and New York City that in hindsight he should have asked more questions — something he was unwilling to say last October, after news of the federal probe was first reported.

His «Buffalo Billion» initiative, meanwhile, is now the subject of a federal probe into improper lobbying and potential fraud by a pair of close Cuomo associates.

The company has been buffeted by one scandal after another in 2017, from alleged sexual harassment to software designed to evade law enforcement, now the subject of a federal probe.

A state oversight board this week is set to green - light a $ 486 million payment to the SUNY Polytechnic real estate subsidiary that is at the heart of the federal probe into Governor Andrew Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative.

Opponents of a planned fracked gas power plant in the Hudson Valley say they are hoping the U.S. attorney will investigate decisions made in the permitting process for the plan, now that it's been revealed that the wife of a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo took payments from the lead engineering firm in the project, and that her husband is the subject of a federal probe.

The Buffalo Billion is now the target of a federal probe that may extend to other economic development projects.

NYPD officials reportedly had sex with a prostitute dressed as a flight attendant during at least one trip on a private plane paid for by a businessman at the heart of a federal probe into police corruption.

He worked for several Central New York companies, including COR Development Co., another possible subject of the federal probe.

Preparing to face voters Tuesday in an inconvenient Democratic primary, Gov. Cuomo forcefully defended his performance as New York's chief executive after rival Zephyr Teachout slammed him for being the target of a federal probe.