Showing posts with label Political Corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political Corruption. Show all posts
Thursday, April 2, 2015

NY1 report exposes BerlinRosen's conflicts of interest with the de Blasio administration

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Who is Jonathan Rosen ? NY1 broadcast journalist Grace Rauh pulled back the curtain on the unregistered lobbying firm, BerlinRosen Th...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

City Council staff using taxpayer resources to post the happy birthday wishes of elected officials

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Join us in wishing Speaker @MMViverito ​ a very happy birthday! Wishing you a day full of joy, love & celebration! pic.twitter.com/QS9J9...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Albany ethics reform proposals ignore warnings of former JCOPE commissioner Ravi Batra

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Ravi Batra : Albany makes sacred honor live in a spittoon As Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-New York) negotiate ethics reforms up in Albany , Ra...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Jo Hamilton, ex-official involved in St. Vincent's Hospital condo conversion, fined for ethics violations

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Jo Hamilton was on the take Jo Hamilton , former member of Manhattan Community Board 2, which rubber-stamped and fast-tracked the demolitio...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Teachout and Wu sue State Democratic Party, Cuomo, and Hochul

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The New York State Democratic Party is violating campaign finance laws by funneling money to prop up the Cuomo-Hochul ticket in next week...
Monday, September 1, 2014

His political and legal problems mounting, Cuomo now blames Hochul

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Having turned on itself, the ‘‘System’’ is becoming more and more unpredictable Waiting in the wings : Preet Bharara Ever since new...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Activists fear Teachout will back Cuomo in General if she loses in Primary

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PUBLISHED : FRI, 29 AUG 2014, 07:42 PM UPDATED : SAT, 30 AUG 2014, 05:53 PM Given Teachout's Soros-connection, if you are voting ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Voters not keeping up with Moreland scandal, and some sick reporters celebrate this as good news for Gov. Cuomo

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PUBLISHED : MON, 11 AUG 2014, 12:21 PM UPDATED : TUES, 12 AUG 2014, 06:40 AM A new poll shows that 86% of voters say that corruption in go...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Corruption of New York City Council slush funds leads to another guilty verdict, this time for Ex-Councilmember Dan Halloran

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PUBLISHED : TUES, 29 JUL 2014, 09:36 PM UPDATED : MON, 04 AUG 2014, 11:05 AM Amongst the charges for which former Councilmember Halloran w...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Former Moreland Commission co-Chair William Fitzpatrick Issues Statement to Press

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Former co-chair of the now-defunct Moreland Commission , Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick , issued a press release Mond...
Friday, July 18, 2014

When Cuomo closed the Moreland Commission, he was hoping to shut down all efforts to investigate political corruption

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PUBLISHED : FRI, 18 JUL 2014, 08:27 PM UPDATED : SUN, 20 JUL 2014, 01:45 PM The Governor's interference with the Moreland Commissi...
Monday, July 14, 2014

At the Board of Elections, Council speaker's political machinations threaten to undermine ballot petitioning

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Ousting the president of the city's Board of Elections was supposed to give City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito "power and c...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Corruption, with a capital "C" for "Cuomo"

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Gov. Cuomo has not yet delivered on his promise to clean up Albany out of fear that he might implicate his political enablers, or, worse, hi...

NYTimes Editorial Board bemoans corruption as Brooklyn Beep Eric Adams cleared to funnel money through shady nonprofit

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PUBLISHED : SUN, 06 JUL 2014, 02:10 PM UPDATED : MON, 07 JUL 2014, 09:30 AM Adams' shady nonprofit, the One Brooklyn Fund, is set to p...
Friday, July 4, 2014

City Council Leadership Denied Lawmakers a Look at the Details of a $75 billion City Budget

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Withholding of City Budget Details Undermines Financial Oversight and Checks and Balances RELATED Council Staffers Withheld Budget D...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Alteration of Headline by The New York Times Aimed to do "Damage Control" for Embattled Governor Cuomo

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Did political operatives for Gov. Cuomo bully The New York Times into changing its headline ? the @nytimes are a changing. #BeforeAndAft...