And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for
a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.
Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department's
public integrity unit.
Post Rowland Connecticut gets
a public integrity unit.
The formation of
a public integrity unit is a top priority for the newly elected Erie County district attorney.
Sen. Eric Schneiderman, a Democratic attorney general candidate who has proposed numerous ethics reforms during his time in the Senate, said that he would expand
the public integrity unit that looks into political corruption and put one member from it in every local attorney general's office across the state.
The meeting was the result of an outreach by District Attorney David Soares»
public integrity unit.
Among them are three former heads of the U.S. Attorney Eastern District's
public integrity unit, Roger Burlingame, Moe Fodeman, Rich Faughnan, and two former chiefs of the office's criminal division, Daniel Alonso and Marshall Miller, who Thies says are backing Kaminsky «because they know that he will clean up Albany and put it back to work for Long Islanders.»
«For example,
public integrity units, our community outreach program.
Mark G. Peters, a former chief of
the public integrity unit in the state attorney general's office, said that a sitting legislator wearing a hidden recording device was «one of the most powerful tools available to a prosecutor,» and that the cooperation of Ms. Huntley and Mr. Castro raised the question of whether another lawmaker or multiple others could also be making recordings.
The arrangement was illegal, said Deputy District Attorney Leon Schorr, who heads
the public integrity unit.