Sentences with phrase «to prove a federal crime»

Bharara refused to provide the same clean bill of health he issued earlier this year when he closed his probe of Cuomo's shuttering of a state corruption commission by saying there was «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.»

The charges mark the second major inquiry of the Cuomo administration by the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan; eight months ago, after investigating Mr. Cuomo's handling of an anticorruption panel that he had created and abruptly shut down, Mr. Bharara said there was «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.»

«This office has concluded that, absent any additional proof that may develop, there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime,» Bharara said of the governor in January, while wrapping up investigations that produced corruption convictions against Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

«After a thorough investigation of interference with the operation of the Moreland Commission and its premature closing, this Office has concluded that, absent any additional proof that may develop, there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime,» Bharara said in a statement.

NEW YORK CITY — U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said there is «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime» in his investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to dismantle a commission investigating corruption in Albany.

Bharara, in a brief statement, says that his office «has concluded that, absent any additional proof that may develop, there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime».

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said investigation found «insufficient evidence» to prove a federal crime was committed

Bharara said that although the closing of the commission was «premature,» he found there was «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.»

Now, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says, in a brief statement, that his office «has concluded that, absent any additional proof that may develop, there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.»

In January, Bharara's office said it had found «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime» in Cuomo's interactions with the corruption panel.

«After a thorough investigation of interference with the operation of the Moreland Commission and its premature closing, this Office has concluded that, absent any additional proof that may develop, there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime,» Mr. Bharara said in a statement.

In January, Bharara said his office had to that point found «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime» related to the Moreland Commission.

Such is Albany's perpetual dysfunction that «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime» in the «interference with the operation of the Moreland Commission and its premature closing» is good news.

Bharara had announced in January that his investigation into Cuomo's shut down of the anti-corruption Moreland Commission was being closed «due to insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.»

(Schwartz never confirmed a report that he met with Bharara's investigators, and Bharara last month announced the inquiry had found «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.»)

In a statement, Bharara said that while the closing of the commission was «premature,» «absent any additional proof that may develop, there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.»

But after an investigation that spanned more than a year, Mr. Bharara said in January 2016 that his office had concluded that «absent any additional proof that may develop, there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.»

Bharara announce in January 2016 that he had «insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime» in his investigation of Cuomo's dismantling of the panel, but warned that his work in rooting out corruption was not yet finished.