Sentences with phrase «on campaign finance fraud»

MANHATTAN — The campaign treasurer for embattled City Comptroller John Liu was arrested Tuesday on campaign finance fraud charges — the latest blow to the presumptive mayoral candidate who has been wrangling with allegations about his fundraising efforts for months.

MANHATTAN — City Comptroller John Liu's 25 - year - old former campaign treasurer was indicted by a grand jury Friday on campaign finance fraud charges.

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The FBI raided the office and hotel room of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer on Monday as part of a fraud and campaign finance investigation.

The growing legal questions around Mr Cohen's services for Mr Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand - jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The growing legal questions around Cohen's services for Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The other three were Paul Adler, a former Rockland County politico who pleaded guilty to felony fraud and bribery in 2002; James Capalino, the lobbyist who tried to get a deed restriction lifted on a nonprofit nursing home on the Lower East Side; and Sant Singh Chatwal, a hotelier who pleaded guilty in 2014 to federal campaign finance donations for making straw donations.

The feds last week arrested Liu fund - raiser Xing Wu «Oliver» Pan on fraud charges for allegedly using straw donors to hide a $ 16,000 contribution from an undercover agent that violated campaign - finance laws.

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The full bill, which can be read here on the State Assembly website, in addition to providing new contribution limits and enforcement rules, also stipulates that the public campaign fund would be partially financed with money from Wall Street fraud settlements.

Oliver Pan, a top fundraiser, and Jenny Hou, Liu's campaign treasurer, were scheduled to go on trial Monday to face federal campaign financing fraud charges.

Word spread quickly at the state Capitol on Wednesday after former Gov. John G. Rowland was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after being convicted in a campaign finance fraud case involving a Congressional candidate.

It seemed not a news story was published following the November 2011 and February 2012 arrests of his top fundraiser and his former treasurer on federal campaign finance fraud charges without a prefix attached to his name: «Embattled Comptroller John Liu.»