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 [...]
Giuliani joins Council race
Posted by Phil Corso in City Council, City Offices, District 14, District 19, State Senate on May 10, 2013 | No Comments
The field of candidates eyeing northeast Queens’ 19th City Council District seat grew larger this week as its embattled incumbent, who will not seek re-election, faces an ethics probe on allegations that he had affairs with a former intern and former deputy chief of staff. A second Republican candidate entered the race to replace City [...]
Liu looms large at aide trial
Posted by Joe Anuta in City Comptroller, City Offices on May 3, 2013 | No Comments
Lawyers defending a pair of former campaign aides to city Comptroller John Liu contended in closing arguments Wednesday the two were accused of corruption and wire fraud only because the government could not get to the mayoral candidate himself. Jia “Jenny” Hou and Xing Wu “Oliver” Pan were charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring [...]
Pols enter not guilty pleas
Posted by Phil Corso in City Council, City Offices, District 14, District 19, State Senate on April 26, 2013 | No Comments
Two Queens lawmakers, the former vice chairman of the borough’s Republican Party and three co-defendants pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges Tuesday before learning that their next day in court is nearly three months away. An April 18 indictment handed up by a grand jury accused state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Hollis) and City Councilman [...]
Warring GOP Party spars over leadership
Posted by Joe Anuta in City Council, City Offices, District 14, District 19, District 32, State Senate on April 19, 2013 | No Comments
Republican leaders traded more barbs over the future of the Queens GOP Party this week in the wake of a wide-ranging bribery scandal. Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) and Queens Republican Party Vice Chairman Vince Tabone were both charged with participating in a bribery scheme to get state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Hollis) on the GOP mayoral [...]
Cuomo calls on state to curb corruption in Public Trust Act
Posted by Rich Bockmann in City Council, City Offices, District 14, District 19, Governor, State Senate on April 12, 2013 | No Comments
One week after federal authorities announced they had uncovered two suspected bribery plots in Queens and the Bronx, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a legislative initiative designed to give the state’s 62 district attorneys more power to prosecute corruption cases. “Preventing public corruption is essential to ensuring that government works and can effectively keep the public’s [...]
