Weiner tries comback with mayor race entry
Posted by Steve Mosco in City Council, City Offices, Congress, District 24, Mayor, U.S. House on May 24, 2013 | No Comments
Former Forest Hills U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner officially kicked off his quest for Gracie Mansion with a video announcement posted on YouTube late Tuesday. The scandal-scarred politician takes on the city’s mayoral campaign close to two years after resigning from Congress in 2011 when it was revealed he posted a lewd photo of himself on [...]
Koo’s campaign HQ opens in Flushing
Posted by Joe Anuta in City Council, City Offices, Congress, District 20, District 6, U.S. House on May 24, 2013 | No Comments
City Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing) kicked off his campaign for re-election last week when the lawmaker officially opened his downtown headquarters. “I promise that I will do my best to serve my community,” Koo told a crowd gathered at his campaign office within Flushing Mall, located at 133-31 39th Ave. “It is the most important [...]
SE Queens debates corruption issues
Posted by Rich Bockmann in City Council, City Offices, District 10, District 13, District 14, District 28, State Senate on May 17, 2013 | No Comments
They’re neither judge nor jury, but if they were, they’d lock ’em up. Days after the revelation that former state Sen. Shirley Huntley secretly recorded some of her fellow politicians launched a new wave of headlines, a crowd in St. Albans voted on a debate about whether corruption or conspiracy played a role in the [...]
Funds pile up for Council hopefuls
Posted by Phil Corso in City Council, City Offices, District 14, District 19, District 32, State Senate on May 17, 2013 | No Comments
The latest campaign funding for the crowded field running to replace City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) showed Bayside’s Austin Shafran, former government spokesman for the Empire State Development authority, in the lead with Whitestone attorney Paul Vallone not far behind. City Campaign Finance Board records said Shafran’s campaign collected $87,217, while Vallone reported $73,470 in [...]
Huntley gets light sentence
Posted by Rich Bockmann in Attorney General, City Council, City Offices, District 13, District 14, District 28, State Senate, Statewide Offices on May 17, 2013 | No Comments
A Brooklyn federal judge last week sentenced former state Sen. Shirley Huntley to a year and one day in prison for stealing taxpayer dollars, ?but said in the past the court had proven to be imperfect in deterring such corruption. “Adequate safeguards at the state and local level would be more appropriate deterrents than the [...]
Liu aides’ guilt casts shadow on mayoral run
Posted by Joe Anuta in City Comptroller, City Council, City Offices, Mayor on May 10, 2013 | No Comments
The fraud convictions of two former campaign aides to city Comptroller John Liu has not helped his run for higher office, but the jury’s decision may influence whether the Queens Democratic Party will endorse the lawmaker’s mayoral bid, borough political observers said. Jia “Jenny” Hou, Liu’s former campaign treasurer, was found guilty of attempted wire [...]
