Former Amaya Gaming CEO David Baazov made an illegal $25k campaign donation to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, according to new criminal charges filed against a prominent political operative.

With the clock counting down to the end of this year’s legislative session, the New York Senate Finance Committee will hold a vote on its gaming expansion bill on Tuesday. The bill includes plans to authorize intrastate online poker, a subject that made a surprise appearance on Monday in a federal court in Buffalo.

Steve Pigeon, a longtime New York Democratic Party operative, pled not guilty on Monday to charges of conspiracy and facilitating an illegal campaign donation from the CEO of “a Canadian online gaming company” based in Montreal to a New York “public official” running for re-election in 2014.

The criminal complaint filed against Pigeon by Acting US Attorney J.P. Kennedy doesn’t name this public official or the company that made the donation. But local NBC affiliate WGRZ quoted Pigeon’s attorney Paul Cambria saying the $25k donation at the heart of the matter was made at a Cuomo event in Manhattan on February 25, 2014 by “a lawyer from Florida.”