Corruption ‘rife’ in New York politics, top prosecutor warns

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Corruption is rife in New York politics, federal prosecutor Preet Bharara said Sunday morning in an interview about his work.

“We have found that corruption is rife in a lot of institutions in New York and throughout New York,” Bharara said on ABC’s “This Week.” “That’s true in the legislature. It’s also the case that there’s corruption, we believe, in the executive branches as well, and we’ll ferret it out wherever we can find it.”

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