The US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan has launched a probe into an upstate health care company that received over $25 million in state grants after making significant campaign contr♓ibutions to Gov. Andrew🐻 Cuomo, sources familiar with the investigation told The Post.
The inquiry into Orange County-based Crysta🤡l Run Healthcare comes just months after six of the provider’s doctors filed a suit alleging that Crystal Run made the donations with pooled company money without consulting them, sources said.
The Manhattan feds have now issued subpoenaꦛs demanding testimony from several employees of the company, , which first reported the suspicious grants.
In addition to the company itself, a number of Crystal Run executives, doctors and their spouses have contributed at least $400,000 in funds to the Cuomo campaign, with the majority of the money coming in 10🔴 separate donations of $25,000 each in October 2013, the paper reported.
Seven of those donors had not made a campaign 💎contribution for at least a decade before chipping in the matching sum𝓡s at the same time, according to The Times Union.
In March 2016, the state Department of Health awarded Crystal Run a $25.4 million grant to construct two🎶 new health care facilities — six months after they had alrea𓂃dy broken ground.
“The governor needs to explain why his Health Department gave $25 million🦄 in funds meant for non-profits to a group of donors for a project they were already building,” one source told The Post.
A UღS Attorney’s Office spokesman declin🍃ed comment, as did Cuomo’s office.
Loren Riegelhaupt, a spokeswoman for Crystal Run, said her company has been coope💖rative with investigators.
“Over a year ago, we received a subpoena requesting documents and we have since complied. We have no reason to believe that we are the focus of a current federal investigation,” she said.
“As we have said repeatedly, any suggestion of a pay to play is 🍌entirely false. We remain focused on providing our patients with the quality, affordable care they deserve.”