ALBANY—What is David Paterson thinking?
Polls show he’s more than 40 points behind Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary, he’s got next to no friends left in Albany and, in all likelihood, he’ll be shown to have raised embarrassingly little money for a sitting governor at the next filing [...]
Last month Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit against the United Homeless Organization, accusing the group of running a scam that funnels money to the bosses at the top and the workers who solicit donations throughout Manhattan, in the name of "helping the" [...]
Influence for labor but not the people.. That is for dam sure. Of course we don’t have the money to buy them off, labor does. They use dues from their members to buy their influence. We on the other hand just vote for them. Politicians use their money and influence [...]
Just another pure example of how our legislators use our money to buy off other politicians. What a bunch of crap. Corrupt? Ya Think? And we allow it, we just sit back on our apathy and allow this type of corrupt activity go on with out end. Any promises of [...]
Citigroup has announced that it will return $20 billion that the U.S. government gave it in TARP bailout money last year. According to Bloomberg News, the banking giant "will raise the funds with a sale of $20.5 billion of equity and debt" and [...]
BERC is such a failure that it doesn’t even work as a patronage mill.
A News investigation published in 2004 found that 736 companies borrowed $153.4 million from city development agencies between 1978 and 2003, and defaulted on 22 percent of money borrowed — more than double [...]
Rachel Uchitel (left), Jamie Jungers Another day, another passel of Tiger Woods-related news! The most recent development is that TMZ spotted a van taking boxes from the superstar golfer's Florida home, but it's unclear where the boxes are going, what's in the [...]
From a September Post story If you want to believe the NY Post's sources, former governor Eliot Spitzer is looking to head back to Albany. But this time, it would be to oversee NY State's finances as the State Comptroller: "Spitzer" [...]
We know nobody cares, but New York State is out of money. Or so the Governor says. Governor Paterson and his budget director warned over a week ago that we were about to go into the deep red, but...
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