Recently, however, the Justice Department has made no secret of its intentions to more aggressively prosecute such violations.

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During his gubernatorial campaign, Mr. Cuomo proposed granting that office the jurisdiction to prosecute criminal and civil violations of campaign-finance laws.

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And he said that "as a fallback" to his proposed creation of an enforcement unit at the elections board, the state attorney general's office might be used to investigate and prosecute criminal and civil violations of election laws.

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