Sentences with phrase «probe alleged corruption»

Reform Party mayoral candidate Sal Albanese demanded Monday that Gov. Cuomo appoint a special prosecutor to probe alleged corruption in Mayor de Blasio's administration.

A quarter century ago as Niagara County clerk, his election committee pleaded guilty for failure to list the true identity of a campaign contributor discovered by federal and state investigators probing alleged corruption in the county.

Not exact matches

The government's key witness in multiple corruption probes — Jona Rechnitz — was a part - time «loan shark» who made money doling out predatory loans, court documents alleged.

Yesterday, we wrote about Shafran's role in excuse - making for the corrupt and dysfunctional legislature up in Albany, but what wasn't discussed is that Shafran also worked as the goto political spinmaster for Senator Malcolm Smith — the same Senator that was arrested in a statewide FBI corruption probe that alleges he attempted to rig the Mayoral election through fraud and bribes early this morning.

Kruger has been the focus of an FBI corruption probe into alleged influence peddling since 2008, and the investigation is still ongoing, a source said.

A federal judge has officially «severed» the corruption trials against eight individuals in a case that began with an alleged bid - rigging probe of the Cuomo administration's Buffalo Billion program — setting one of the trial dates in the midst of the governor's expected re-election bid.

Lipsky turned himself in to authorities March 10 in connection with a federal corruption probe alleging that he indirectly injected lobbying fees totaling $ 252,000 into an account accessible by Sen. Carl Kruger (D - Brooklyn) in hopes of encouraging him to take official actions to benefit Lipsky's clients.

A 2016 indictment in a corruption probe pursued by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara alleged, among other charges, that a construction deal worth $ 750 million was steered to Louis Ciminelli, a major Cuomo donor.

State Senator Adriano Espaillat and Adam Clayton Powell said they are returning the donations their campaign received in 2014 from businessman Jona Rechnitz, the businessman whose name came up as part of the US Attorney's probe of alleged pay - for - favor corruption in the NYPD, records show.

The state senator's campaign also took nearly $ 15,000 in 2014 from businessman Jona Rechnitz, whose name has also come up as part of the US Attorney's probe of alleged pay - for - favor corruption in the NYPD, records show.

The investigations appear to stem from a 2014 FBI probe into alleged corruption at the NYPD.

In Brooklyn, Mr. de Blasio said his administration is cooperating with a federal probe into alleged corruption at the New York Police Department that involves two former members of his inaugural committee.

In late July, the New York Times released a lengthy story that alleged the governor's top aides tried to stop Moreland commissioners from issuing subpoenas of Cuomo donors in corruption probes.

Some of them said the agency had refused to probe the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Bamitale Omole, who they wrote 13 petitions against based on alleged corruption.

The private emails exchanged that month, documenting the alleged influence peddling, might never have been made public without the coordinated corruption and bribery probes by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of Manhattan and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

In late July, the New York Times released a lengthy story that alleged the governor's top aides tried to stop Moreland commissioners from issuing subpoenas to Cuomo donors involved in corruption probes.

Private emails exchanged by top Cuomo officials, documenting the alleged influence peddling, might never have been made public without the coordinated corruption and bribery probes by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of Manhattan and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Whatever Howe might say about the alleged crimes, his testimony could also shed light on Cuomo's Upstate development strategy, which spawned a federal probe and corruption charges.

The suits accused the former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss of repeatedly groping and making unwanted come - ons to both woman and also claimed Silver — currently the subject of a federal corruption probe — was an «aider and abettor» of Lopez's alleged serial - perv behavior in Albany for many years.

Cor executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi are facing felony charges in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's probe of alleged corruption and bid - rigging in connection with state - funded development projects.

In the summer of 2014, after a series of news stories came out describing Cuomo secretary Larry Schwartz's alleged interference in the management of the governor's Moreland Commission to investigate corruption in the Legislature, Albany insiders wondered whether Schwartz might give up information about the governor to federal investigators in the Southern District U.S. attorney Preet Bharara's office, as part of a probe they had begun into the circumstances surrounding the commission's demise.

In 2001 Mayor Giordano was the target of a federal corruption probe into Waterbury municipal contracts, focused mainly on alleged pay - to - play deals between Giordano, Joseph Pontoriero and Worth Construction.

Probes deepened into alleged corruption by former associates of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former members of his administration, as the attorney general's office conducted a raid at SUNY Polytechnic Institute offices in Albany Thursday afternoon.

Recall that the extent of the alleged corruption and nepotism quickly led to a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of FUSE and its affiliated Jumoke schools that today is still ongoing.»