The FBI is investigating The Bronx.
Not the whole borough. Just the way politics is conducted, according to a pair of reliable sources.
And that could prove interesting since power in Albany shifted to Bronx politicians once Sheldon Silver — arrested by FBI agents in January on charges he accepted $4 million in bribes and kickbacks — gave up his role as speaker of the New York Assembly.
Silver, from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, stepped down as speaker on Feb. 3. Taking over as Assembly speaker — one of the most powerful politicians in the state — was Carl Heastie, a longtime Bronx political power.
Federal investigators are looking at voter fraud and financial mismanagement in the borough, sources tell me.
It’s unclear who the target is, or if there is more than one. But I’m told that the investigation is — at least in part — spurred on by information provided to Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara.
Bharara, whose jurisdiction includes The Bronx, is on a bit of a crusade. He was incensed, sources said, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year abruptly shut down the one-year-old Moreland Commission, which was investigating public corruption.
http://nypost.com/2015/02/09/fbi-probing-bronx-political-machine-sources/
Not the whole borough. Just the way politics is conducted, according to a pair of reliable sources.
And that could prove interesting since power in Albany shifted to Bronx politicians once Sheldon Silver — arrested by FBI agents in January on charges he accepted $4 million in bribes and kickbacks — gave up his role as speaker of the New York Assembly.
Silver, from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, stepped down as speaker on Feb. 3. Taking over as Assembly speaker — one of the most powerful politicians in the state — was Carl Heastie, a longtime Bronx political power.
Federal investigators are looking at voter fraud and financial mismanagement in the borough, sources tell me.
It’s unclear who the target is, or if there is more than one. But I’m told that the investigation is — at least in part — spurred on by information provided to Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara.
Bharara, whose jurisdiction includes The Bronx, is on a bit of a crusade. He was incensed, sources said, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year abruptly shut down the one-year-old Moreland Commission, which was investigating public corruption.
http://nypost.com/2015/02/09/fbi-probing-bronx-political-machine-sources/
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