A Buffalo-based Democratic power broker with ties to Governor Cuomo was indicted Oct. 6 on Federal charges that he tried to bribe a state judge with favors including a job for a relative with President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
On the day the indictment was announced, Federal prosecutors asked that a criminal complaint they brought against the official, G. Stephen Pigeon, be dismissed. That complaint, brought in May, charged that Mr. Pigeon had arranged an illegal $25,000 donation in 2014 from a Canadian gaming-company executive to Mr. Cuomo’s campaign. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer acceded to the request. It is illegal for foreigners to donate to U.S. political campaigns.
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