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Bharara: Won’t Charge Cuomo Over Early Moreland Commission Shutdown

By MARK TOOR
Posted 1/15/16

U.S. Attorney Preet Bha­rara announced last week that he lacked sufficient basis to bring criminal charges involving the sudden shutdown in 2014 of the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption and reported efforts by Governor Cuomo and his aides to interfere with its operations. That doesn’t, however, mean Mr. Cuomo is entirely out of the woods.

In addition to the shutdown of the commission, which was reportedly targeting some of Mr. Cuomo’s big donors, Mr. Bharara was looking into how public funds were awarded in the Buffalo Billion revitalization project.

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