Posted on 11/15/2011 6:31:04 PM PST by neverdem
Federal authorities are investigating the fund-raising operation of the New York City comptroller, John C. Liu, seeking records from his campaign and from a city contractor whose employees were listed as having contributed thousands of dollars to his campaign, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Grand jury subpoenas issued last week in the inquiry followed a report in The New York Times last month detailing a number of fund-raising improprieties, including questions about the sources of Mr. Liu’s donations, whether people listed as contributors had actually given their own money and whether some donors listed even existed.
It is unclear whether the current inquiry is related to an investigation begun by Manhattan federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in late 2009. That investigation, which had not previously been made public, focused on whether foreign money flowed into Mr. Liu’s 2009 campaign for comptroller, two people with knowledge of the inquiry said.
Five people discussed the inquiry into Mr. Liu’s fund-raising with The Times; three of them spoke on condition of anonymity because the proceedings of a grand jury are bound by secrecy.
Mr. Liu, a Democrat and a rising star in the city’s political world who has been viewed as a mayoral contender in part because of his fund-raising prowess, said in a brief interview on Monday that his campaign would fully cooperate with the investigation.
He added, “I am confident that my fund-raising efforts were proper at all times.”
The subpoenas issued to Mr. Liu’s campaign and the company, Dynasty Stainless Steel, say that the records are being sought to determine whether there have been violations of federal wire fraud and conspiracy laws.
Dynasty, in Maspeth, Queens, was ordered to produce personnel records for nine people who, according to city campaign finance records, each gave $800...
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It just never stops!
Times must be going conservative. Only took 6 paragraphs to identify the rat as a rat.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
Every other New Yorker would be shocked.
He is a progressive aka communistic slime dem
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/88815/liu-objects-to-fly-by-night-ows-eviction/
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the link!
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