Sentences with phrase «unrelated federal investigations»

Silver was the subject of two separate unrelated federal investigations in the last few years, according to several people with knowledge of those inquiries.

And like the vast majority of Democrats in the Assembly, she stood by former Speaker Sheldon Silver after he was criticized for mishandling a sexual harassment case and was revealed to be a subject of an unrelated federal investigation.

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EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox said that the departures were unrelated to the ongoing federal investigations and that the agency was fully cooperating with the congressional probe, led by House oversight chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

Shkreli, 32, is under investigation by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, in an unrelated matter.

The Cohen investigation has since been reassigned to federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), providing some indication that the Cohen matter may be unrelated to the core of Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, although it remains unclear whether the case was wholly transferred to the SDNY or if Mueller retains certain aspects of it that are related to the Russia investigation.

But federal authorities were «already listening to numerous people in various places» on unrelated investigations before looking into Silver, and his «case provided a bunch of new places to wiretap,» a law enforcement source told «On The Inside.»