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 [...]
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 [...]
Candidates line up to replace Councilman Comrie
Posted by Rich Bockmann in Assembly, City Council, City Offices, Congress, District 23, District 24, District 27, District 28, District 29, District 5, U.S. House on April 19, 2013 | No Comments
City Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) will be term-limited out of office at the end of the year after representing St. Albans, Hollis, Cambria Heights and Jamaica for the last 12 years, and a bevy of candidates have lined up to take his place. Community Board 13 Chairman Bryan Block, state Assembly staffer Manny Caughman, [...]
Huntley pleads guilty to fraud
Posted by Rich Bockmann in Assembly, Attorney General, City Council, City Offices, District 10, District 28, District 32, State Senate, Statewide Offices on February 15, 2013 | No Comments
Former state Sen. Shirley Huntley, who just two weeks ago admitted in federal court to stealing thousands in taxpayer dollars from one of her sham non-profits, pleaded guilty again Wednesday to state charges of covering up a scam at another non-profit, authorities said. Huntley was on southeast Queens’ District 28 School Board before being elected [...]
Sanders sworn in at York
Posted by Rich Bockmann in Assembly, City Council, City Offices, District 10, District 23, District 24, District 28, District 31, State Senate on January 25, 2013 | No Comments
State Sen. James Sanders (D-Jamaica), fresh off his first few days in Albany, celebrated his inauguration with a ceremonial swearing-in at York College last week. Sanders was officially sworn in Jan. 9 and spent the first two days last week in session in Albany, where he voted to pass the state’s new assault weapons ban. [...]
Boro clashes over maps at redistricting hearing
Posted by Joe Anuta in City Council, City Offices, District 19, District 20, District 28 on January 18, 2013 | No Comments
The city Districting Commission held its third round of public hearings in Queens Monday night, and two Queens neighborhoods were the subject of a verbal tug of war. The commission is in charge of redrawing the city’s legislative districts to account for population change registered every 10 years in the U.S. census. The lines were [...]
