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Albany politicians are corrupt, Manhattan U.S. Attorney says ...
More than a few bad apples: Albany
politicians are corrupt, Manhattan U.S.
Attorney says
BY John Marzulli NEW
YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, July 25, 2015
Tags:
preet bharara
The convictions of two high-ranking New
York lawmakers last week shows the sleaze runs deep in Albany.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has said there is a “certain percentage” of
politicians in Albany who are corrupt, which is underscored by the more than
two dozen officials elected in the state who have been arrested or convicted
since 2008.
“There’s more than a few bad apples, it’s a bushel of bad
apples,” said Dick Dadey, executive director of the
good-government group Citizens Union.
Continue reading at ….. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/albany-politicians-corrupt-manhattan-u-s-attorney-article-1.2304402
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Read the Full Coverage on the Moreland
Commission initially established by New York Governor Cuomo in 2013 as New York was plaqued with pay to
play scandals /corruption
Ex-Moreland Anti-Corruption Chief Says The Panel Altered State Politics
September 2015
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By SUSANNE CRAIG MAY 4, 2015 New York Time
ALBANY — Dean G. Skelos, the
leader of the New York State Senate, and his son were arrested on Monday by
federal authorities on extortion, fraud and bribe solicitation charges,
expanding the corruption investigation that has cast a renewed spotlight on Albany’s intractable
corruption problem.
Continue reading at …..
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/nyregion/dean-skelos-new-york-senate-leader-and-son-are-arrested-on-corruption-charges.html
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Latest Albany Scandal Spotlights Cuomo - WNYC
May 12, 2015 · by Karen
Rouse From 
Gov. Andrew
Cuomo railed against dysfunction and corruption in Albany when he first ran for governor four
years ago. While in office, he has rolled out a series of ethics
reforms — with each rollout described as the most powerful in the
nation.
But under
his watch, the scandals seem to proliferate. Sen. Dean Skelos
was the latest leader tripped up by scathing allegations he used his high-ranking
position as Majority leader in the Senate to shake down entities for money. He
and his son Adam Skelos were arrested on Monday by
the U. S.
Attorney's Office. Both pleaded not guilty.
Continue
reading at http://www.wnyc.org/story/latest-albany-scandal-puts-spotlight-cuomo/
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By Ray
Sanchez, CNN Jan
22, 2015
New York (CNN)New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested
Thursday on charges that he used his position as one of
the state's most-powerful politicians to amass millions of dollars in bribes
and kickbacks, federal prosecutors said.
Silver's remarkable fall from grace came one day after he
shared the stage with Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the State of the State address
in Albany.
As Speaker of the Legislature's Democrat-controlled lower
house, Silver held significant power over the operation of New York government, particularly over the
real estate industry and health care funding. Continue reading at …..
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/us/new-york-sheldon-silver-arrest/
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The Brian Lehrer Show
New
York State Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver was arrested this morning on charges that he received millions
in undisclosed income from two law firms. Here's what we know so far. (Jan 22, 2015)
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The following
is an excellent and extensive report by the
NewYork Times on “questionable conduct” in New York which should be
read in its entirety….
By THOMAS KAPLAN,
WILLIAM
K. RASHBAUM and SUSANNE CRAIG
DEC. 8, 2014
“Those
aren’t loopholes. Those are the laws that are written,” said Gov. Andrew M.
Cuomo, defending his continued exploitation of the so-called LLC loophole.
Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times
Donors to Gregory R. Ball’s successful campaigns for the New York State Legislature might have been
surprised by where he spent their money.
He financed excursions to Cancún
and Acapulco,
and a leisurely road trip on his way back. He sprang for thousands of dollars
in bar and restaurant bills in Texas
— and entry fees for an extreme obstacle-course race called Tough Mudder.
The freewheeling spending by Mr. Ball, a Republican senator
from New York City’s northern suburbs, was only a sliver of the questionable
conduct turned up by investigators for the Moreland Commission, a powerful
anticorruption panel that Gov. Andrew M.
Cuomo created last year to clean up Albany.
But Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, abruptly shut the commission
down as part of a budget deal with the State Legislature in March.
Government watchdog groups were outraged. Federal prosecutors began a criminal
inquiry.
Continue reading at …..
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/nyregion/after-moreland-commission-shutdown-by-gov-cuomo-loopholes-live-on-in-albany.html?_r=0
Read many more excellent reports by SUSANNE CRAIG
THOMAS KAPLAN, and WILLIAM
K. RASHBAUM
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Menendez
'Outraged' By His Indictment On Corruption Charges
NPR April 02, 2015 5:01 AM ET
The Justice Department indictment alleges that Sen. Robert Menendez
abused his office to benefit a Florida
eye doctor who was his friend and donor. Menendez has always maintained his
innocence. https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-us/suite
"Outraged"
Sen. Menendez Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Corruption Charges
NBC New York
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey pleaded not guilty to federal
corruption charges in Newark court Thursday, a day after he was indicted on ...
Senator
Bob Menendez Pleads Not Guilty to Corruption Charges - ABC News
Everything
you need to know about Senator Robert Menendez's corruption scandal
- Vox
Sen.
Robert Menendez Vows To Fight Corruption Charges, Expected In Court Thursday
- CBS Local
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Corruption
has ended many NJ political careers
Cherry Hill Courier Post
KATHLEEN HOPKINS, ASBURY PARK
PRESS 11:23 a.m. EDT
April 2, 2015
New Jersey has a long and storied history of political corruption.
Almost a century before Sen. Robert Menendez was brought up on federal
charges, legend has it that Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague, the grandfather of
political bosses in New Jersey, regularly accepted visitors bearing large
envelopes of cash that they would leave in a desk drawer to peddle influence
with him.
Hague, boss of Hudson County's Democratic political machine for decades
in the first half of the 20th century, died a multimillionaire in 1956,
even though he had no legitimate source of income other than his $8,500 annual
mayor's salary. Continue reading at ….. http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2015/04/01/gallery-new-jerseys-crooked-politicians/70802448/
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August 5, 2014
Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission
episode may prove worse than Chris Christie’s Bridgegate—but
you wouldn’t know it from the news coverage.
Steven Malanga
is the senior editor of City Journal and a senior
fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Excerpt: Trying to trace precisely when a political
scandal emerges is not an exact science. But in the case of Bridgegate
and Moreland, we have some good markers. Both episodes drew mentions in the
press for months before they attracted widespread attention locally. In New
Jersey, Bridgegate really hit home in early January
of this year, with the discovery of emails from members of Christie’s staff
suggesting that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey create traffic
headaches around the bridge in an act of political retribution against Fort Lee
mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat who, unlike some
other members of his party, did not endorse Christie for reelection. Similarly,
though New York papers had been publishing articles and editorials for months
on Cuomo’s decision to shut down the Moreland Commission just halfway through
its original term, the New York Times’s bombshell July 23 piece,
resulting from a three-month investigation, assembled the first lengthy
narrative on the story—complete with emails, subpoenas, and other internal
documents that chronicle the pressure Cuomo staffers put on investigators to
look the other way.
Continue reading at
….. http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0805sm.html
Steven Malanga latest book is
Shakedown:
The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American
Taxpayer.
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Is
Cuomo's corruption commission going off the rails?
North Country Public Radio
Oct 09, 2013 — News reports in recent days portray Governor Andrew
Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission on corruption as possibly going off the rails.
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