ALBANY (AP) — New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are declining to comment Tuesday on a published report that they are investigating payments he received over several years from a small Manhattan law firm that ...

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ALBANY (AP) — Federal prosecutors are taking the remaining files of New York’s anti-corruption commission as the panel shuts down, and they plan to complete the state investigations, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Thursday. Bharara’s Manhattan office will move aggressively ...

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Federal prosecutors say the former owner of a Rochester scrap metal business has pleaded guilty to lying on his tax returns and has paid the government millions of dollars in restitution. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced Tuesday that ...

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NEW YORK — The prison term awaiting a one-time billionaire hedge fund founder convicted of insider trading charges is unpredictable at best in a Manhattan courthouse where judges vary considerably in their assessment of how justice should be dispersed at sentencing.

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LAKE PLACID — The U.S. and Canada will each designate officers who can work investigations on both sides of the border in a new pilot project next year, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday. Holder told a group of federal prosecutors ...

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Federal prosecutors are appealing a Virginia judge's ruling that the law banning corporate contributions to federal candidates is unconstitutional. Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday filed an appeal in the case ...

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Federal prosecutors are signaling a possible plea deal for an Upstate man charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or harm former President George W. Bush. Ian Rotunno, a 24-year-old from Greece ...

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ALBANY — Federal prosecutors intent on stemming child pornography and helping care for its victims are increasingly going after the assets of offenders under an evolving change in Justice Department policy.

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