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Thomas DiNapoli

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    Cuomo Might Call for Cuts in Tuesday's Budget Proposal

    ​Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn't releasing his 2012-2013 budget proposal until Tuesday, but early reports suggest more cuts are on their way, The Associated Press reports (via Wall Street Journal). Because Cuomo has to address a $2 billion shortfall -- and has promised no additional taxes -- this me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2011

    New York City Public School Bureaucrats Need To Learn Their Math

    ​Those in charge of New York City schools may need to re-take some math classes.Thomas DiNapoli, the New York State comptroller, audited the Department of Education and found that the graduation rate for 2008 was between 62.9 percent and 63.6 percent. But the NYC Department of Education listed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Wall Street Bonuses Down, But Nobody's Making Less

    With profits higher than ever on Wall Street, executives are starting to shift their compensation packages away from bonuses and into higher salaries, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said in an annual report today. While Wall Street salaries were up by six percent in 2010, bonuses declined by 8 perc ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting

    With profits higher than ever on Wall Street, executives are starting to shift their compensation packages away from bonuses and into higher salaries, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said in an annual report today. While Wall Street salaries were up by six percent in 2010, bonuses declined by 8 perc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Silver Election Lining: Ego-Fueled Millionaire Candidates Went Down in Flames

    ​Those suffering the slings and arrows of Tuesday's election results should avoid the big map in the Times today showing a shower of nasty little red-colored and rightward-surging darts flowing across America. Each little arrow shows a Congressional district where the Party of No gained ground ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2010

    Tom DiNapoli's Appointment Logs: He's Just Too Nice a Guy

    ​Tom DiNapoli is too nice a guy. The state comptroller apparently can't say no to anyone who wants to meet with him, though he has a mixed record when it comes to delivering what his bellringers want. I've been reading half a foot of DiNapoli's appointment schedules from 2007 to now an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Harry Wilson Gets Backing By Our Media Overlords

    Wilson​All 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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo and Black Voters -- The Key to his Father's Victory, Will They Help the Son?

    ​Having set the national stage for the Carl Paladino roll-out yesterday, with CNN citing the Times as their reason for interviewing him, the paper did a nosedive today on the Sienna and Marist polls that rebut the Quinnipiac numbers that were featured in a front page story the day before. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    NARAL's Endorsement of Eric Schneiderman: The Backstory

    ​NARAL New York just produced a video and hosted a press conference for Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic candidate for attorney general. NARAL has yet to even endorse Andrew Cuomo, the sitting attorney general who is running for governor. Yet it is governors who shape abortion policy; Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2010

    Harry Wilson's War: Steve Rattner Credits Much of GM's Rescue to Obscure NY Comptroller Candidate

    NY1​Harry Wilson, the Republican candidate for state comptroller, may not be preparing to turn the extraordinary praise he gets in Steve Rattner's new book, Overhaul, into a TV ad or mailer. But Rattner's remarkable account of Wilson's skillful and tireless contribution to the Obama auto-indus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity is Here: When Will He Endorse an A.G. Candidate?

    ​Andrew Cuomo will show us in the next few days if he has the balls to be a change agent as governor. His feud with Eliot Spitzer caught fire when Spitzer got stuck in neutral during Cuomo's 2006 primary race for attorney general against Mark Green, refusing to endorse Cuomo when it mattered. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    State Comptroller Will Audit MTA for Fradulent Overtime Payments

    via the Daily News​The MTA is a bit of a mess lately with upcoming fare hikes, the Second Avenue subway hell-hole, people falling onto the tracks all the time, and, possibly, employees giving themselves overtime for no better reason than "It's Monday!" Now the transit company is really under a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Al Sharpton Attacks Rush Limbaugh, the Last White Guy He Isn't In Bed With

    ​Thank God for Rush Limbaugh. So long as he's calling George Steinbrenner a "cracker" who "made a lot of African-Americans millionaires," there's still a white guy with power in America that Al Sharpton is free to attack. So yesterday, "Silent Al" found his voice and called Rush "repugnant." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Eric Schneiderman and the Bogus Issue of AG "Independence"

    ​In the only hotly contested statewide primary race, the buzzword is "independence." The theory, propagated by those unlikely to get Andrew Cuomo's support to replace him as attorney general, is that an endorsement from the probable next governor would compromise a law enforcement official wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Bronx High School Blows $90,000; Owes $100,000

    ​Staffers at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx apparently nibbled away at more than $90,000 that students had raised at bake sales and fund-raisers, state Controller Thomas DiNapoli found. The Daily News asks, "Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?" Those must have been some cookie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    David Paterson Shadow-Boxes Himself; Press Awards Him TKO

    ​The biggest joke in Albany these days is the supposed rehabilitation of David Paterson. The New York Post kicked it off with an editorial salute on Thursday, June 17. By Monday, the Associated Press was posting a profile-in-courage hurrah, calling him "a bit of a hero in a time that despera ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo's Pledge Proving Tricky for Fellow Dems

    By Gavin Aronsen Andrew Cuomo, New York's likely next governor, has made it known that fellow Democratic office seekers should sign onto a single-page pledge to reform Albany if they expect to win his endorsement for this fall's election. But only two of his hopeful AG successors, Nassau County DA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Is John Liu Really Ready for All the Attention?

    Doesn't John Liu, the city's youngest comptroller in nearly four decades, often appear not-ready-for-prime-time? After previous befuddling behavior, Liu took to the podium at the recent state Democratic convention to put state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's name in nomination, an odd speaker selection ... More >>

  • News

    June 8, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo's Biggest Rival Won't Be the G.O.P.

    It's Shelly Silver and the old-school Dems in his race to Governor

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Adolfo Carrion Reminds Us Why He's Not the Latino NY Needs for Statewide Office

    No, gracias​The wrong Carrion nominated himself for lieutenant governor in this morning's Daily News. Think of Gladys Carrion, the celebrated commissioner of the New York State Office of Children & Family Services, or a host of other prominent Latinos before Adolfo Carrion, the ex-Bronx boro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Thomas DiNapoli, State Comptroller: Tax Take Down, Wall Street Bonuses Up, Pension Fund Healthier

    ​State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli reports that New York sales tax revenue went down last year by 5.9 percent versus 2008. And city sales tax collection declined even in the spender's paradise of New York City, by the same percentage. (It was worse elsewhere: in the Lower Hudson Valley collect ... More >>

  • News

    January 5, 2010

    Bloomberg and Thompson: The (Really) Odd Couple

    Now it can be told: The surprising ties between the billionaire mayor and the poor slob who ran against him

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Albany Special Sessions Grow Increasingly Less Special

    ​We know this stretches the definition of news, but the Albany special sessions haven't accomplished much in the way of deficit reduction. Sheldon Silver informs us the hard-working assembly has been churning out bills, including one inspired by the sad case of Leandra Rosado that will make it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Times: Thompson's Investments Not Paying Off

    The Times finds that the city's pension fund has "consistently lagged behind many of its public pension peers" under Comptroller (and mayoral candidate) Bill Thompson. For the past seven years, four of five city pension funds earned less than the 4.5 percent median annual return for large public pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Comptroller: Inmates Received Unemployment Benefits in Prison

    ​Well, they ain't working, so it's no surprise 11 inmates in New York state prisons filed for unemployment benefits. The surprise is that they got them, a state comptroller's audit reveals. "Crime should not pay," says comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, "but these prisoners figured out a way to game ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    New York State, U.S. Governments Honor Trent Reznor for Helping Sick, Uninsured Man

    While the state senate isn't getting much done, at least some state officials doing their jobs, including writing letters of commendation to Trent Reznor. The Nine Inch Nails auteur has been very active in the fight to get relief for 27-year-old severe cardiomyopathy sufferer Eric De La Cruz of Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    State Pension Fund Loses 26.3 Percent of Value in a Year

    Considering how big New York State's pension obligations are, it was a cause for concern when the pension fund started to lose value as the market tumbled, dropping about 20 percent between April and October 2008. So in March the state started investing more in private equity markets -- which, as At ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Barrett: Dems Discuss Restricting Bloomberg's School Control

    Assembly Democrats discussed mayoral school control for about four and a half hours yesterday, and virtually none of the dozens of members who spoke during the closed party conference supported continuing Bloomberg's control of city schools in its present form.    Speaker Shelly Silve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    City Money Made EZ: Yassky Web Site Offers Answers

    Here's an early and useful dividend from the four-way race for the Democratic nomination for city comptroller: Candidate David Yassky, the Brooklyn city councilman who's been eager for an electoral promotion for several years now, today released his own Web site of city budget info. Yassky calls his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2009

    DiNapoli Bans Placement Agents from Touching Pension Fund

    In the current environment, it makes sense that comptroller Thomas DiNapoli would want to be as squeaky-clean as possible. He was the first statewide official to release his tax returns this year. And now, as the pension fund scandal under former comptroller Alan Hevesi unravels and the papers call ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Sick Senator Arrives to Push Budget Through Senate

    Having cleared the assembly, the budget is getting kicked around the state senate as we write; Democratic senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson (above) rose from her sickbed, having been hospitalized for pneumonia, and entered the chamber to applause and to shore up her party's bare majority. The fiscally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2008

    $9 Billion in Unclaimed State Funds Available

    Having cleared the assembly, the budget is getting kicked around the state senate as we write; Democratic senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson (above) rose from her sickbed, having been hospitalized for pneumonia, and entered the chamber to applause and to shore up her party's bare majority. The fiscally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Gov Sticks Up for O'Byrne, Gay Pols for Term Limits, Goldberg for Powell at Pride Dinner

    Having cleared the assembly, the budget is getting kicked around the state senate as we write; Democratic senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson (above) rose from her sickbed, having been hospitalized for pneumonia, and entered the chamber to applause and to shore up her party's bare majority. The fiscally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2008

    NYC RFD: In This Week's Queens Gazette

    Having cleared the assembly, the budget is getting kicked around the state senate as we write; Democratic senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson (above) rose from her sickbed, having been hospitalized for pneumonia, and entered the chamber to applause and to shore up her party's bare majority. The fiscally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    State Comptroller: MTA Fucked; You, Too

    Having cleared the assembly, the budget is getting kicked around the state senate as we write; Democratic senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson (above) rose from her sickbed, having been hospitalized for pneumonia, and entered the chamber to applause and to shore up her party's bare majority. The fiscally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    Daily Blog: Shock and awe; you just lost at Monopoly; Al Jazeera talks to a Jewish banker

    Having cleared the assembly, the budget is getting kicked around the state senate as we write; Democratic senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson (above) rose from her sickbed, having been hospitalized for pneumonia, and entered the chamber to applause and to shore up her party's bare majority. The fiscally ... More >>

  • News

    February 13, 2007

    Too Smart by Half

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

  • Long Island Voice

    January 11, 2000

    See Tom run

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

  • Long Island Voice

    January 11, 2000

    Smiling Assassins

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

  • Long Island Voice

    December 7, 1999

    Law & Disorder

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

  • Long Island Voice

    November 23, 1999

    EMERGENCY

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

  • Long Island Voice

    November 16, 1999

    Let the games begin

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

  • Long Island Voice

    November 16, 1999

    The Democrats' bash

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

  • Long Island Voice

    November 2, 1999

    Minority report

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

  • Long Island Voice

    November 2, 1999

    Looking up

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

  • Long Island Voice

    September 21, 1999

    This Land Was Made For You and Me...

    How Spitzer rigged the build-up to the war with the assembly

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