Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday he has been questioned by investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office who are probing the legality of how de Blasio and aides raised campaign money.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has contracted with two high-powered law firms to help it deal with a maelstrom of state and federal investigations.
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) – One of the two fundraisers at the center of a federal corruption probe involving the NYPD is seen in video hugging Mayor Bill de Blasio outside of his home in Brooklyn in 2014. De Blasio has said he barely knew the men, but the video shows the friendly embrace…
DetailsNew York, NY – A 2015 land deal approved by the de Blasio administration for $16.15 million which lifted deed restrictions on the 150,000-square-foot property located at 45 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side is now being investigated by City Comptroller Scott Stringer and the Department of Investigation.
New York – The list of those under the microscope for possible corruption continues to grow as U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara vowed that his office is conducting full scale investigations at all levels of city and state government.
Mayor Bill de Blasio personally intervened on behalf of one of his leading fundraisers to have a partial vacate order lifted on a building the City deemed as unlicensed, illegal and improperly worked on, knowledgable.
A top aide to Mayor de Blasio had warned against putting the businessmen now at the center of the NYPD corruption scandal onto Hizzoner’s 2014 inaugural committee.
ORANJEMUND, Namibia—A dozen miles off the southwestern edge of Africa’s Atlantic coast, a 285-ton vacuum machine operating 400 feet below sea level is sucking some of the world’s most valuable diamonds from the ocean floor.
Brush High School graduate and The Temple-Tifereth Israel member Matthew Castrol Shlonsky was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 14, according to D.C. police. U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, called the shooting “a terrible tragedy.” Shlonsky interned for Portman’s office in 2013.
An unusually high amount of suspicious phone activity in Washington, D.C. is fueling reports that a cell network in the city may have been hacked and communications may be being monitored, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
