Freelancers Union releases full slate of endorsements
Posted by Connor Adams Sheets in Assembly, Attorney General, District 11, District 15, District 16, District 25, District 26, District 28, District 35, District 36, District 39, Governor, State Comptroller, Statewide Offices on August 13, 2010 | No Comments
Freelancers Union announced this week the Queens candidates it is endorsing in this year’s primary and general election campaigns, siding with politicians it believes “share their commitment to modernizing labor laws to meet the needs of the growing and evolving independent workforce.”
Cuts may hurt boro hospitals
Posted by Anna Gustafson in Assembly, District 16, District 25, State Senate on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
Cuts that New York lawmakers were expected to make to the state budget this week in an effort to fill a $3.2 billion deficit may delay funds promised to several Queens hospitals, state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Whitestone) and state Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) said. As part of the $2.8 billion budget reduction plan legislators [...]
Guv signs Lancman’s sex offender alert bill
Posted by Jeremy Walsh in Assembly, City Council, City Offices, District 15, District 25, District 30, State Senate on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
As Halloween approaches, the biggest scare for parents may not come from a slasher movie, but from a beeping BlackBerry cell phone providing the first warning of a sex offender moving into the neighborhood. Thanks to a bill pushed by state Sen. Joe Klein (D-Bronx) and state Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Forest Hills), any updates to [...]
Guv vetoes bill on closing of hospitals alert
Posted by Anna Gustafson in Assembly, District 25, Governor on October 14, 2009 | No Comments
Gov. David Paterson vetoed Friday a bill that would have required the state to notify communities about hospital closings and issue plans for filling the gap in health-care services in the affected areas, prompting criticism from the legislation’s sponsor, state Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows). Lancman said Paterson’s decision was especially worrisome in light of [...]
Electric Co. with ties to McLaughlin corruption probe renews bid for city contracts
Posted by Stephen Stirling in Assembly, District 25, District 38 on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
A Long Island City-based electrical company submitted the low bid on four major city contracts for traffic signal maintenance just two weeks after the company’s former chairman and CEO pleaded guilty to bribery charges two weeks ago in one of the largest bid-rigging investigations in city history, the city Department of Transportation confirmed. A DOT [...]
McLaughlin campaign committee remains active since indictment, conviction
Posted by Stephen Stirling in Assembly, District 16, District 25, State Senate on August 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
Although disgraced former state Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin is serving a prison sentence for stealing from his campaign, campaign finances records show his re-election committee has remained active and has doled out more than $100,000 since his indictment. The Committee to Elect Brian McLaughlin has met every filing deadline with the state Board of Elections since [...]
McLaughlin ally pleads guilty to bribery
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, District 25 on August 5, 2009 | No Comments
The former head of a Long Island City-based electric company that hired union workers represented by disgraced former state Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin pleaded guilty Friday to making tens of thousands of dollars in illegal payments to the corrupt ex-legislator, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan said. Santo Petrocelli Sr., the former owner and chairman of Petrocelli [...]
McLaughlin aided in Seminerio investigation: Feds
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, District 25, District 38 on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
Federal prosecutors have finally publicly acknowledged former state Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin’s cooperation in the case against former Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan wrote to U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan, who sentenced McLaughlin to 10 years in prison on racketeering charges in May, to explain why it was seeking leniency for McLaughlin [...]
McLaughlin reports to prison housing Madoff
Posted by Stephen Stirling in Assembly, District 25 on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
Bernard Madoff just got some company from home. Disgraced former state Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin (D-Flushing) was admitted to federal prison in Butner, N.C., Tuesday to begin serving a 10-year sentence for bilking millions from his constituents. A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed McLaughlin was admitted Tuesday morning to Butner Federal Correctional Complex, [...]
Lancman says Queens bills being stymied by Senate deadlock
Posted by Anna Gustafson in Assembly, District 13, District 25, State Senate on July 1, 2009 | No Comments
As a legislative stalemate gripped Albany this week, state Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) said he was especially concerned about the fate of four of his bills that he said would help Queens residents in the case of future hospital closings and area nonprofits to prepare for potential terrorist attacks. Additionally, Lancman said the bills [...]
