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 [...]
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 [...]
Baldeo plans to fight election fraud charge
Posted by Steve Mosco in City Council, City Offices on November 3, 2012 | No Comments
After turning himself in to the FBI last week amid charges of fraud and obstruction, former City Council candidate and current Queens District Leader Albert Baldeo is firing back at his critics. Lawyers for the embattled Baldeo released a statement this week charging that “the government has expended tremendous resources to harass and target him [...]
Baisley Houses seek end to City Council division
Posted by Joe Anuta in City Council, City Offices, District 27, District 28 on August 30, 2012 | No Comments
When a city commission redraws the district lines for the City Council this year, civic leaders from southeast Queens are calling for the unification of the Baisley Houses in Jamaica. “Include all five buildings so there is only one Council member to oversee that area,” said A.U. Hogan, president of the Baisley Houses Tenant Association, [...]
