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 [...]
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 [...]
Ex-Sen. Huntley pleads guilty to fraud charges
Posted by Rich Bockmann in Attorney General, District 10, State Senate, Statewide Offices on February 1, 2013 | No Comments
Former state Sen. Shirley Huntley pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday to committing mail fraud in order to cover up a scam that bilked taxpayers out of $87,000. The embattled southeast Queens Democrat smiled at family members waiting in the courtroom as she arrived, and with her husband sitting by her side she admitted [...]
State paroles former comptroller
Posted by Steve Mosco in Assembly, Attorney General, City Council, City Offices, District 28, Public Advocate, State Comptroller, Statewide Offices on November 21, 2012 | No Comments
The son of disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi said his father realizes his mistakes and wants to move forward now that he has been granted parole after serving 18 months in prison. “My father has publicly acknowledged that he willfully allowed himself to become unbelievably arrogant, entitled and personally corrupt,” said state Assemblyman Andrew [...]
Critics blast system as flawed as voter registration nears end
Posted by Rich Bockmann in Assembly, Attorney General, Borough President, City Comptroller, City Council, City Offices, Congress, Governor, Mayor, Public Advocate, State Comptroller, State Senate, Statewide Offices, U.S. House, U.S. Senate on October 11, 2012 | No Comments
In August, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a new initiative designed to lift the state’s dismal voter registration numbers, and as the Oct. 12 deadline to register for next month’s general election draws near, critics in Queens said there is no good reason those numbers should be so low. With less than 64 percent of eligible [...]
Huntley supporter says case racially motivated
Posted by Steve Mosco in Attorney General, City Council, City Offices, District 10, District 31, State Comptroller, State Senate, Statewide Offices on September 13, 2012 | No Comments
The primary election got a jolt Tuesday after a supporter of state Sen. Shirley Huntley (D-Jamaica) distributed leaflets claiming the indicted senator is the victim of racially motivated actions by the state attorney general. Huntley supporter and Rochdale Village Vice President Joe Evans accused Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of a “political lynching” in the indictment [...]
