Sentences with phrase «through upstate county»

He answered state prosecutors» questions on Jan. 25 in a separate probe of whether Team de Blasio broke election law when it funneled money through upstate county committees to help Democrats win the state Senate in 2014.

The state investigation has focused on whether de Blasio or his aides violated state election law by funneling donations to Democratic candidates through upstate county committees during the party's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to control the State Senate.

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The measure comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo has traveled the state to call for a reduction in gang violence through the addition of State Police personnel in Suffolk County and a handful of upstate cities, including Albany and Rochester.

A state Elections Board enforcement counsel accused de Blasio and his aides of funneling large contributions from unions and other donors through county Democratic committees to three State Senate candidates upstate in 2014 in an unsuccessful party effort to retake control from Republicans.

It is part of a larger probe over allegations that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio funneled large donations through several county Democratic committees to help upstate State Senate contenders.

Sitting in the front seat of a Lincoln sedan as it sped through the Southern Tier on a sunny, frigid Friday, the 46 - year - old Republican county executive of Westchester said that Cuomo had simply «managed the decline» of New York, and is a «creature» of a broken government that has presided over an outmigration of people and jobs from upstate regions like this one.

Bharara's office is also looking into how money raised by de Blasio's team was funneled through several largely dormant upstate county committees to Senate Democratic candidates in 2014, a tactic that potentially circumvented state contribution limits.

Residents of two rural upstate New York counties — Chenango and Schoharie — have voiced their opposition to a plan to build a natural gas pipeline through their hometowns.

Federal regulators are holding public hearings on a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through several upstate New York counties.

The U.S. Attorney and Manhattan DA are investigating whether the office of New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio knowingly violated campaign contribution laws by funneling donations for some upstate Senate races through county committees, which can accept donations 10 times higher than the limits on an individual Senate candidate.

The tour will swing through a dozen upstate counties and end on May 30 in Buffalo — two days before the Republicans are scheduled to hold their convention in Manhattan.

Sugarman's referral documents extensive efforts by Mayor Bill de Blasio's election campaign to route large contributions through Democratic Party County Committees to Democrats running for the state senate in a handful of contested seats upstate.