By Erin Durkin, Greg B. Smith, John Annese and Denis Slattery
Prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s public corruption unit
will sit down Friday with Mayor de Blasio face to face and question him
about whether he traded government favors for political donations,
sources told the Daily News.
The mayor, who spent hours this week with his lawyers gearing up for
the imminent showdown with the feds, requested the Midtown tete-à-tete,
City Hall sources said.
De Blasio has been haunted by the shadow of several probes being
conducted simultaneously by state and federal authorities into various
aspects of his fund-raising and attempts to throw his political weight
around.
The feds are focusing on whether de Blasio or his aides used their
official standing in City Hall to help out donors in exchange for
contributions made either to his 2013 mayoral campaign or his
now-defunct nonprofit, law enforcement sources tell the Daily News.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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