Governor’s Office Subpoenaed in Federal Probe

Last Friday, the Daily News reported that “[a] former top aide and several others close to Gov. Cuomo are being probed by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office for potential improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interests involving an upstate power plant and Cuomo’s signature “Buffalo Billion” economic development program.”

Shortly after the article hit, the Governor’s office issued a statement acknowledging that “the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District has an ongoing investigation focused in Upstate New York (commonly referred to as the Buffalo Billion and Nano investigation),” and indicating that the that the Governor “has ordered an immediate full review of the program” by Bart Schwartz, an independent investigator who has served as Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

Subsequent news reports have identified two former Cuomo aides as the subjects of the inquiry.

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