Who was the informant who helped the FBI obtain a search warrant to raid a Buffalo City Hall office more than three years ago?
Nona B. Watson said Wednesday it wasn’t her, although 13 days after the raid in 2019 the former Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency executive director filed a secret lawsuit that accused Mayor Byron W. Brown’s administration of corruption in its handling of federal housing funds. The lawsuit was recently dismissed in U.S. District Court.
It's been more than 3 years since agents hauled boxes of evidence from BURA offices, and no one has been charged with any crimes as a result. The federal investigation remains shrouded in mystery.
Watson told The Buffalo News this week that before the federal raid, she did speak with FBI agents who appeared to be investigating allegations of public corruption.
But Watson and her attorney said the feds only spoke with her briefly and not for a long enough period of time that they believe would have led them to be able to build a criminal case around allegations from her civil lawsuit.
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