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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2009 Stories by Tom Robbins

• Rebel With a Cause: Brooklyn Priest Father John Powis

  published June 10, 2009

  On the last day of May, Pentecost Sunday, 300 people filling the pews of Our Lady of Presentation Church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, rose to... More >>

• Armed With Words: D.D. Guttenplan's The Life and Times of I.F. Stone

  published June 3, 2009

  For almost 20 years, those smart enough to read I.F. Stone's four-page newsweekly got America's best bargain in journalism. The Lippmanns, the... More >>

• Pension Fixers Go Right on Pushing

  published June 3, 2009

  Just how hard it is to keep the influence peddlers away from the multi-billion-dollar public pension funds is confirmed by a letter emerging... More >>

• Obama the Political Fixer Works New York's Senate Primary

  published May 27, 2009

  Barack Obama reached out from the White House this month and put his hand firmly on the Democratic Party scales here in New York. He... More >>

• How the Mob Hoodwinked D.A. Candidate Leslie Crocker Snyder

  published May 20, 2009

  Leslie Crocker Snyder was such a convincing tough-as-nails judge in her years on the bench that no less an authority than the producers of... More >>

• Another Thompson Supporter Rings Up a Big Pension Fund Score

  published May 13, 2009

  Thanks to the powerful searchlight now being wielded by State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and his crew, we got another peek last week into... More >>

• Bill Thompson Has His Own Pension Pals

  published May 6, 2009

  Last year, the city's public employee pension funds took a wonderful leap of faith and committed $150 million to help Northern Ireland dig out... More >>

• Peggy Lipton, The Girlfriend Who Sparked the Pension Scandal

  published April 29, 2009

  One way to get a handle on the massive pension fund scandal unearthed by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and his diligent team is to consider... More >>

• Alan Hevesi Carried a Torch for Robert Torricelli

  published April 22, 2009

  As sole trustee of the state's colossal pension fund, Alan Hevesi was a popular figure, and one of those eager to be around him was Robert... More >>

• Hevesi's Friends in Need

  published April 15, 2009

  Hank Morris was already a famous and successful political consultant when he suddenly became fascinated by high finance back in 2003. He took... More >>

• Bloomberg's Loyal Cult: The Independence Party

  published April 8, 2009

  In a sign of true affection, Michael Bloomberg kisses his Independence Party friends continental-style, on both cheeks. You can see it in a... More >>

• Vanguard of the Senate Revolution

  published April 1, 2009

  Carl Kruger, state senator from Brooklyn's most southern reaches, barreled up the thruway to Albany last week in his black 2008 Cadillac sedan.... More >>

• Alan Hevesi: Shakedown at the Pension Fund

  published March 25, 2009

  Alan Hevesi spent a dozen years as the people's top fiscal watchdog—first for the City of New York, and then for the state. The entire... More >>

• Bloomberg's Homeless Pledges Fell Far Short

  published March 18, 2009

  Two days before Christmas, the Coalition for the Homeless announced that the number of families sleeping in city shelters had hit an all-time... More >>

• Bloomberg's Double Deal

  published March 11, 2009

  One of the most impressive chapters in Michael Bloomberg's mostly charmed political life was his swift upending last fall of the city's... More >>

• Bloomberg's Golden Republican

  published March 4, 2009

  If you wanted a sense of what a third term for Michael Bloomberg might be like, it would pay to take a good long look at Brooklyn State Senator... More >>

• Showdown for the BusFellas' Union

  published February 25, 2009

  The most blatantly mobbed-up union in the city—one that the great Mafia buster Rudy Giuliani somehow overlooked when he was running City... More >>

• Morgenthau Nails Wire-Transfer Schemers; Bloomberg Yawns

  published February 18, 2009

  Other than being nearly 90 years old, part of the rap on Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has long been that he gets too tied up... More >>

• Gillibrand Learned How to Defend Tobacco's Dirtiest Secrets as a Young Lawyer

  published February 11, 2009

  Some 400,000 Americans die every year from smoking, and if you want the grim details of how this killing ground came to be, you might ask New... More >>

• Outcry after a Whirlybirds Firm Gets Inside Edge for Heliport

  published February 4, 2009

  Some of the choicest municipal-patronage plums used to be with the city's old Marine and Aviation agency. It controlled leases at the city's... More >>

• David Paterson and Kirsten Gillibrand: New Senator, New Scandal

  published January 28, 2009

  How wonderful that David Paterson has rescued us from having those grasping Kennedys snatch the state's open Senate seat. The family only has... More >>

• Bloomberg Leads Yankees in Steals

  published January 14, 2009

  New York City stands second to none when it comes to fleecing its taxpayers. Along with the Tweed Courthouse, one of the great local historic... More >>

• Mayor Mike and the Yanks: How Suite It Is

  published January 7, 2009

  The 2009 mayoral campaign begins this month when the richest sports franchise in America puts its hand out for one more bailout. The New York... More >>