U.S. Attorney Says He Will Take Up Work of Corruption Panel Cuomo Disbanded

Source: NYTimes

By MARC SANTORA and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, after sharply questioning Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s decision to shut down a commission formed to investigate political corruption in New York State, said on Thursday he would take up its unfinished work.

Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, whose prosecutions in recent years uncovered deep corruption in Albany and spurred the formation of the commission, also said that he would take seriously any suggestions that the governor’s office might have influenced the commission.

“If there is something to pursue that is worth pursuing, we will do it,” he said.

Mr. Bharara, speaking on Thursday morning on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC public radio, said he was not sure what his investigation would find, but he offered a withering public rebuke of Mr. Cuomo’s decision to shut down the inquiry.

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