De Blasio May Be Interviewed by Federal Prosecutors on Friendly Turf

 

By William K. Rashbaum

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)