Doling out tax dollars in secret — Page 1 — TimesUnion.com
ALBANY — Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver refuse to let anyone know how lawmakers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
Since April, the two powerful politicians have rejected all requests to disclose the names of legislators […]

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State senator from Bronx used straw donors for campaigns, ex-loyalists say
ALBANY — Three people who worked at Bronx charities created by Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. say the state senator secretly gave them currency or money orders and instructed them to personally contribute the cash into his or his son’s campaign accounts. Two of the charities […]

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A basketball in my hands is worth about $19.
A basketball in Michael Jordan’s hands is worth about $33 million.
A baseball in my hands is worth about $6.
A baseball in Mark McGuire’s hands is worth $19 million.
A tennis racket is useless in my hands.
A tennis racket in Venus Williams’ hands is a championship winning device.
A rod […]

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Why take on Spitzer? Faso, Suozzi point to Long Island — Newsday.com
ALBANY, N.Y. — Republican John Faso and Democrat Tom Suozzi are 50 percentage points behind front-runner Eliot Spitzer in the race for governor. Both trailed Spitzer by $15 million in the latest fundraising reports. Each was opposed by his party’s top bosses.
So why continue […]

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Mohan Says Corruption On Town Board
Saturday, June 10, 2006 02:52 PM - WBEN Newsroom
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - Amherst Town Supervisor Satish Mohan says power and corruption has led to law breaking by some town board members. He says that the board members have been hiring more town employees, even though it breaks the town […]

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