Andrew Cuomo's Buffalo Billion - Preet Probes Deeper

September 18, 2015
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The Buffalo Billion investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office overlaps with another investigation by the FBI.

A look at some of the key political players in Buffalo, who showed political support to Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-New York) in the time leading up to Governor Cuomo's announcement of the "Buffalo Billion." A September 2015 report published by The New York Daily News indicated that the reforming prosecutor Preet Bharara was expanding his probe of the Buffalo Billion economic program. In April 2016, news reports revealed that the U.S. Attorney's Office had issued a subpoena to the office of Gov. Cuomo, setting off a new round of speculation that Federal law enforcement investigators were escalating their probe of several individuals with close ties to Gov. Cuomo, according to a report published by The New York Daily News. In May 2015, a report published by The Wall Street Journal noted that the office of the New York State Attorney General had also issued subpoenas to some Buffalo Billion-affiliated entities in respect of a separate state economic development project.