Email Author Tom Robbins

Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 11, 2009

  "Gillibrand Learned How to Defend Tobacco's Dirtiest Secrets"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2009

  "Senate Coup Plotters' Hidden Agenda"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 27, 2009

  "The Mayor's Press Pass"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 13, 2008

  "Eliot Sptizer Goes Down"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 29, 2008

  "Bloomberg's Term Limits Coup"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 23, 2008

  "Bloomberg's Velvet Coup"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 16, 2007

  "Rudy's Brain"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 19, 2007

  "Benchwarmers"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 28, 2007

  "Mike Bloomberg, Free At Last"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published November 1, 2007

  "Tale of the Tape"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published October 25, 2007

  "Tall Tales of a Mafia Mistress"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published October 18, 2007

  "The Judge and the G-Man"

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2004 Stories by Tom Robbins

• Bernie Kerik's Bad Company

  published December 14, 2004

  The allegedly mob-tied firm at the center of the storm swirling around ex-city police commissioner Bernard Kerik hired another former top Giuliani... More >>

• The Mob's Engineers

  published December 7, 2004

  For more than 25 years there hasn't been a big construction job in this city where Tommy Maguire, leader of the Operating Engineers union, wasn't... More >>

• Rackets Remedy

  published December 7, 2004

  Now that several of its top officials have pled guilty in a massive, mob-orchestrated no-show jobs scheme, the next stop for the city's powerful... More >>

• Converting Red Hook

  published November 9, 2004

  Number 160 Imlay Street in Red Hook is a massive six-story concrete industrial building that sits smack alongside Brooklyn's last working... More >>

• Voting in the Rain

  published November 2, 2004

  EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO—On Election Day in Ohio, a group of church-going people concerned with basic moral values and their nation's... More >>

• Laborers Looted

  published October 26, 2004

  A major city construction union that rid itself of entrenched Mafia domination a decade ago is back in trouble, this time for allowing a top... More >>

• The Soldiers Who Said No

  published October 19, 2004

  No matter how the military ultimately decides to deal with Staff Sergeant Michael Butler for disobeying orders, once the war in Iraq is through... More >>

• Bush's Other War

  published October 12, 2004

  It has nothing to do with Iraq, terrorism, or taxes, but here's another issue right at the heart of what's at stake in next month's election:... More >>

• Bleeding Hearts

  published October 5, 2004

  So what exactly was in those letters received by the Get-Out-of-Jail-Now board from the fans of ex-state senator Guy Velella? A review of 36... More >>

• Taken to the Cleaners

  published October 5, 2004

  Celebrity restaurant owner Jimmy Rodriguez has dropped out of sight recently, but those looking for him might try stopping by a gritty spot in the... More >>

• City Goes Judge Shopping

  published September 21, 2004

  There was supposed to have been a day of reckoning in Manhattan Supreme Court this week for city officials who handled the detention of hundreds... More >>

• The Backpack Delays

  published September 21, 2004

  The man overseeing the city's arrest and detention process during the convention was NYPD deputy chief John Colgan, court papers show. Colgan has... More >>

• Convention Detention

  published September 14, 2004

  Among those Mayor Bloomberg would have "just plead guilty" to arrest charges stemming from the Republican National Convention is Alex Pincus, 28,... More >>

• Prison Therapy

  published September 14, 2004

  He's never been convicted of anything, but former Rudy Giuliani aide Russell Harding has already spent more than 10 months in federal prison as... More >>

• Burning for Bush

  published September 7, 2004

  Say this about leaders of the city firefighters' union and their timely endorsement of George W. during the Republican convention: They didn't let... More >>

• Guilty While Pedaling

  published September 7, 2004

  And the evidence of the crime for those nabbed during bike protests staged during the Republican National Convention is—what else?—the... More >>

• Labor's Beef with Bush

  published August 31, 2004

  A few hours before Zell Miller and Dick Cheney stoked the GOP faithful at the Garden last Wednesday with red-meat attacks on the Democratic... More >>

• A Going-Away Gift From Russell Harding

  published August 31, 2004

  Less than 24 hours after Rudy Giuliani was hailed as the toast of the Republican convention, one of his former top aides appeared in federal court... More >>

• The Sunshine Patriots

  published August 17, 2004

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• Turf Wars

  published August 10, 2004

  Police helicopters hovered overhead. Hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied below. Top brass kept watch from mobile command posts. More than... More >>

• Carpenters Hammered, Again

  published August 10, 2004

  A decade ago, the city's carpenters' union pledged in federal court to clean up its act and rid itself of pervasive corruption that benefited... More >>

• Don't Take Me to the River

  published August 3, 2004

  Successful organizing is a delicate mix of tactics and democracy, and for weeks the group seeking to turn out a massive protest on the Sunday... More >>

• Bronx Cash Cow

  published July 27, 2004

  With high expectations and not a little pride, Congressman José Serrano three years ago handed a symbolic check of $1.3 million in federal... More >>

• Short Fuses on 9-11

  published July 20, 2004

  If not for his untrimmed beard and knit kufi skullcap, Muhamed Pjetrovic could be standard-issue, New York blue-collar tradesman. He is short with... More >>

• His Dear Friends

  published July 13, 2004

  More than a few local politicians had reason to cringe last week when a photo of one of the metro area's biggest campaign donors showed up on the... More >>