Sentences with phrase «probe by federal prosecutors»

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that he has no reason to question the way contracts were awarded for a solar panel factory in Buffalo that is being built with state funds, despite an ongoing probe by federal prosecutors.

Howard Zemsky, the leader of New York's economic development agency, maintained the Cuomo administration's no - comment policy with regards to questions surrounding a probe by federal prosecutors of the Buffalo Billion program — other than to say the agency is cooperating fully.

Mangano and Walker have both been identified in Newsday stories as being under scrutiny in an unrelated corruption probe by federal prosecutors on Long Island stemming from charges against restaurateur Harendra Singh, who was a major campaign contributor to Mangano and others on the Island.

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The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

The previously unreported testimony from the onetime senior Uber official, as well as interviews conducted by Reuters with five current and former Uber employees, rebuts statements made in an explosive 37 - page letter last year that triggered the internal probe and drew the attention of federal prosecutors, who are still investigating.

Peter Cutler, a longtime Democratic Party insider in Erie County and former Cuomo administration aide, says he has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors looking into the expanding Buffalo Billion economic development investigation, and plans to cooperate fully with the probe.

Melvin Lowe, a former top political aide to the indicted Sen. John Sampson whose job was nebulous — at best — is being eyed by federal prosecutors as part of a mushrooming corruption probe.

At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.»

NYCHA's compliance with federal requirements «regarding lead and lead - based paint in public housing,» is being probed by prosecutors in US Attorney Preet Bharara's office, Judge Deborah A. Batts wrote in the order.

While the full scope of the new probe is unclear at this early stage, sources say that one of the focuses of FBI and federal prosecutors has been the central issue in the recently concluded SEEC investigation: the Democrats» 2014 spending on behalf of Malloy from a federally regulated campaign account fed by heavy contributions from state contractors.

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.

Melvin Lowe, a former top political aide to the indicted state senator, is being eyed by federal prosecutors as part of a mushrooming probe.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors say that Meng promised to use his influence quash the tax fraud probe by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for an acquaintance, but in reality only intended to bilk the businessman out of money and pocket it for himself.

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.

Ciminelli, caught up in a public corruption probe by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, is one of nine defendants charged in a criminal complaint brought by federal prosecutors.

Newsday has reported that federal prosecutors and investigators had been probing whether Spota and McPartland took part in the cover - up of the assault by Burke on Christopher Loeb, who stole a duffel bag from the chief's department SUV, parked in front of Burke's St. James home in December 2012.

The prosecutors sent a grand jury subpoena to the Glenwood real estate company in May 2014 as part of their probe into kickbacks pocketed by Silver, according to the Manhattan federal court papers filed earlier this month.