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January 4, 2011
Wayne Barrett: Time for Something New
Ed Koch and I were inaugurated on the same day in 1978. He became mayor and I became his weekly tormentor. I had written a few pieces for the Voice before I took over the Runnin' Scared column that January, going back as far as 1973. But I was now inheriting a column that Mary Nichols, th ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Steve Rattner Agrees to Pay $10M in State Pension Fund Scandal Settlement With Cuomo
A pre-New Year's Eve deal has been cut between investment big Steven Rattner and outgoing Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to settle charges stemming from Rattner's role in the state pension fund scandal. Rattner, who served as auto czar for President Obama and investment adviser to Mayor Bloomb ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Steve Rattner's E-mails Told a Different Tale on Movie Deal
The Times gives the Steve Rattner case Page One treatment again today. But this one's a little different from the last time when the former Timesman, who counts both Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and Mike Bloomberg as close friends and clients, was described as putting his legal troubles ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Andrew Stein, The Man Who Wanted to Be Mayor, Admits Tax Scam
Former City Council President and one-time mayoral candidate Andrew Stein pled guilty yesterday to a $1 million tax fraud. This didn't rate big headlines since Stein long ago faded into the city's rearview mirror, which is where he always belonged. If he was spotted at all in recent years, it ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
A Thanksgiving Honor Roll for 2010
Former City Council President and one-time mayoral candidate Andrew Stein pled guilty yesterday to a $1 million tax fraud. This didn't rate big headlines since Stein long ago faded into the city's rearview mirror, which is where he always belonged. If he was spotted at all in recent years, it ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting
Former City Council President and one-time mayoral candidate Andrew Stein pled guilty yesterday to a $1 million tax fraud. This didn't rate big headlines since Stein long ago faded into the city's rearview mirror, which is where he always belonged. If he was spotted at all in recent years, it ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Harry Wilson Gets Backing By Our Media Overlords
WilsonAll three New York City newspaper owners have endorsed GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, who is also backed by our mogul mayor. The real Gang of Four hasn't caballed like this since the term limits extension of 2008 and the re-election of Bloomberg in 2009. Like term lim ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Steve Rattner, Financial Genius, Felled By Jackass Movie
Rattner's FollyEx-auto bailout king Steve Rattner is reportedly settling his pay-to-play charges stemming from his state pension fund schemes with the Securities Exchange Commission. He'll take a two-year bar from the securities markets, plus ante up $6 million, says the Wall Street Journal. ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Steve Rattner Still Has a "Chooch" Problem
Auto bailout czar Steve Rattner is not out of the woods yet. Rattner may be able to put his problems with the Securities Exchange Commission behind him today. But he's still got a ways to go with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office which launched the state pension probe and which has ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
Steve Rattner's Book, Overhaul: the Cuomo and Schumer Revelations
Steve Rattner, the financier and Democratic fundraiser who served in 2009 as President Obama's car czar, takes some guarded shots at New York's political elite in his yet-to-be-released book, Overhaul. He paints himself as a victim in the ongoing Securities & Exchange Commission investigati ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
Steve Rattner "Unethical" Say Quadrangle and Cuomo
A pair of New York City political powerhouses took major public hits today in Andrew Cuomo's latest round of sanctions in his pension fund fraud investigation. The biggest is Steve Rattner, the ex-Times reporter who counts Mike Bloomberg and Arthur Sulzberger Jr. among his close pals. Here's ... More >>
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March 10, 2010
David Loglisci Cops Pension Scam Plea, Says 'Senior Officials' Made Him Do It.
It was another bad day in court for that former New York political power couple, consultant Hank Morris, and his top client, former comptroller Alan Hevesi. The bad news broke about 10:30 this morning when Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office announced that it had obtained a guilty plea from David ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
The Reinvention of Andrew Cuomo
A Prince of Darkness turns White Knight
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December 8, 2009
The Peggy Lipton Affair Brings Down Another Mogul
A Prince of Darkness turns White Knight
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October 6, 2009
Cuomo Takes Harding Scalp in Pension Scandal
The last time Ray Harding tried to give Andrew Cuomo a boost into the governor's mansion, it didn't go too well. Cuomo dropped out of the race; Harding's Liberal Party, which had endorsed Cuomo, lost its ballot line after it failed to get the minimum 50,000 votes in the 2002 race. Today, Hardi ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
Too Big to Jail? Cuomo Takes $20M to "Settle" Carlyle Group's Pension Fraud Role
Andrew Cuomo (pictured) has indicted some big fish in the pension fund scandals, but as far as the powerful Carlyle Group goes, he's content just to take the money. Having admitted to paying indicted "placement agent" Hank Morris over $13 million to influence pension fund investments to their advant ... More >>
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May 13, 2009
Another Thompson Supporter Rings Up a Big Pension Fund Score
Andrew Cuomo (pictured) has indicted some big fish in the pension fund scandals, but as far as the powerful Carlyle Group goes, he's content just to take the money. Having admitted to paying indicted "placement agent" Hank Morris over $13 million to influence pension fund investments to their advant ... More >>
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May 12, 2009
Cuomo, SEC Bust Ramirez in Pension Fund Fraud
Andrew Cuomo (pictured) keeps rolling up skels in the pension fund pay-for-play scandal. Now he's got Julio Ramirez Jr. to plead guilty to a securities fraud violation. Ramirez, a pal of previous indictee Hank Morris, is a placement agent of the sort that has proven troublesome in these matters and ... More >>
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May 7, 2009
Cuomo's Pension Investigations Catch On in 30 States
The New York Times today examines the pension fund investigations that have spread since New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo (pictured) started digging into the scandals involving such funds in this state. The notion seems to be spreading that "placement agents" who intervene between fund manage ... More >>
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April 30, 2009
Dallas-Based Aldus Exec Caught in New York Pension Fund Scandal
The pension fund scandal that attorney general Andrew Cuomo's investigations and prosecutions have roiled appears to be spreading out. Today Cuomo and the SEC both charged the managing partner of private equity firm Aldus Equity Partners, Saul Meyer, with felony fraud. Meyer, based in Dallas, is an ... More >>
Columns
April 29, 2009
Peggy Lipton, The Girlfriend Who Sparked the Pension Scandal
How a Queens schlub went head over heels for Peggy Lipton and brought down the system
Blogs
April 28, 2009
This Week in the Voice
Phyllis Little wouldn't leave her apartment in the Bronx until she saw justice done for her nine-year-old granddaughter, raped and murdered in 1998. The police say they have the man who did it, and Little is preparing to go. But her mind isn't settled -- not about Robert Fleming, who insists he's ... More >>
Columns
April 22, 2009
Alan Hevesi Carried a Torch for Robert Torricelli
The dashing ex-senator worked at the same tainted firm as comptroller's aide
Blogs
April 22, 2009
Cuomo, Thompson Heating Up Pension Fund Investigations
Hmm. Now that state comptroller DiNapoli's banning placement agents from doing business with the state pension fund-- like what Ray Harding was pretending to do when attorney general Cuomo nabbed him -- city comptroller William Thompson (pictured) is calling for a similar ban here. (He can't just c ... More >>
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April 15, 2009
Hevesi's Friends in Need
Political pals cashed in on pension fund business
Blogs
April 15, 2009
Cuomo Makes Hevesi Gang-Related Announcement Today
Hope you saw Tom Robbins' great story on the largesse of former controller Alan Hevesi's gatekeeper, Hank Morris, and how some of it sloshed over to former Liberal Party boss Ray Harding. We hear that attorney general Andrew Cuomo is giving a press conference today at 11, and that the news won't be ... More >>
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April 15, 2009
Cuomo: Ray Harding Up on 3 Felony Charges, Texas Financier Pleads Out in Pension, Office-Peddling Scams
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (pictured) has announced that he's charging former New York State Liberal Party Chairman Ray Harding with three felonies committed during Alan Hevesi's days as comptroller. The AG says Hevesi's lieutenants Hank Morris and David Loglisci, who were indicted last month, u ... More >>
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April 14, 2009
This Week in the Voice
50 Cent and Rick Ross have a beef. Will it be settled with guns? Actually, it will more likely be settled with internet videos and rapid response units. What what? Erik Parker explains the new state of the art. Burial societies are supposed to assure their members of a grave when their time comes. ... More >>
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April 8, 2009
Letters
50 Cent and Rick Ross have a beef. Will it be settled with guns? Actually, it will more likely be settled with internet videos and rapid response units. What what? Erik Parker explains the new state of the art. Burial societies are supposed to assure their members of a grave when their time comes. ... More >>
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March 25, 2009
This Week in the Voice
The American military presence in Afghanistan costs about $16 billion a month. What are we getting for the money? "Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation" by P.J. Tobia. When Alan Hevesi was the city's, then the state's comptroller, Jack Chartier and Hank Morris were his "two loyal gatekeepe ... More >>
Columns
March 25, 2009
Alan Hevesi: Shakedown at the Pension Fund
The fiscal watchdog's team wrote its own rules
Blogs
March 19, 2009
Former Hevesi Aide Arraigned on Corruption Charges
After scandal-plagued comptroller Alan Hevesi resigned in 2006, he got off light with a fine, a ban from office, and no jail time. But his consultant Hank Morris quickly fell under Andrew Cuomo's investigative eye for allegedly steering state pension fund contracts in return for "referral fees." Leg ... More >>
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October 2, 2007
New Yorkers To Spitzer: Take the Stand
After scandal-plagued comptroller Alan Hevesi resigned in 2006, he got off light with a fine, a ban from office, and no jail time. But his consultant Hank Morris quickly fell under Andrew Cuomo's investigative eye for allegedly steering state pension fund contracts in return for "referral fees." Leg ... More >>
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January 14, 2003
Tough Watchdog
Lefþer the Latest to Feel Campaign Board’s Bite
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August 28, 2001
Mother Dearest & the Courthouse Cabal
A Public Advocate Candidate Has a Patronage Problem
News
August 28, 2001
New York’s Bean Counter
Will the Votes Add Up for Alan Hevesi?
Specials
July 31, 2001
Letters
Will the Votes Add Up for Alan Hevesi?
News
July 24, 2001
Hankering for a Loophole
Is Hevesi Doing an End-Run Around Campaign Finance Rules?
News
March 27, 2001
The Mystery Candidate
Hevesi Separates Himself From Rudy, Attaches Himself to UFT
News
February 27, 2001
Coalition Confusion
McCall Crowns Ferrer, but Sharpton, Rivera, Rangel Skip the Coronation
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August 1, 2000
The Early Line
The Guys Who Want Rudy Giuliani’s Job
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January 4, 2000
Millennial Matchup
Zany and Historical Factors That Will Make Rudy or Hill a Winner
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November 24, 1998
The 1998 Wacko Awards
Zany and Historical Factors That Will Make Rudy or Hill a Winner
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November 17, 1998
Autopsy on Alfonse
A Look at the Real Numbers in '98 Sweepstakes

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