New York Sheriff’s Office investigated, according to sources – Telemundo New York (47)

NEW YORK – The New York City Department of Investigation is investigating Sheriff Anthony Miranda’s office over illegal tobacco shop enforcement and the office’s handling of smuggled money, two people said. source familiar with the matter.

Investigators are also trying to see if any companies were pressured to make donations to the National Association of Latino Officers, of which Miranda is an officer, sources said.

Requests for comment from Miranda, the Sheriff’s office and the NLOA were not returned.

A DOI spokesman declined to comment.

POLITICO was the first to report that an investigation into the sheriff’s office was underway, and the Daily News was the first to confirm details of the investigation.

At his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams said, “This guy (Miranda) has closed 1,100 tobacco stores. As I understand it, when the voucher money is given it is videotaped and accounted for by the NYPD and the sheriff’s department. office, until they make sure, because people are very worried when it comes to handing over their voucher money.

The investigation into the sheriff’s office is the latest to come among six separate federal criminal probes into the government in and around New York City.