Mayor Bill de Blasio
will probably be on familiar ground when he is questioned by federal
prosecutors and F.B.I. agents in New York as part of a sweeping criminal
investigation into his campaign fund-raising.
It
was unclear when exactly the interview would take place, but it was
expected to be conducted in a conference room at offices of Mr. de
Blasio’s lawyer’s firm in Midtown Manhattan, people with knowledge of
the matter have said, not in the offices of Preet Bharara, the United
States attorney in Manhattan. It was expected that the interview would
last about four hours, the people said.
The
parameters of the session took shape after extensive negotiations
between prosecutors and the mayor’s lawyer, Barry H. Berke, the people
said, and it was possible that some details could change.
The
prosecutors overseeing the fund-raising investigation have been
examining whether the mayor or others in his administration traded
favorable city action for donations to his campaign or to his
now-defunct nonprofit political group. They want to question the mayor
about more than a dozen topics, several of the people have said.
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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