Lobbyist Corruption

With Mike era ending, lobbyists wonder how to ‘succeed’(NYP) High anxiety is spreading among developers and lobbyists desperate to get their projects approved by City Hall before Mayor Bloomberg leaves office. Another concern for those doing business with the city is the brain drain that comes with the wind-up of every administration.




Another lobbyist has left Patricia Lynch Associates; this time it’s Brian Ellner, who just joined the firm in June.

The Lobbies at the Top 2011 (NY World) Who spent what to win laws, dollars, real estate and more from New York's city and state officials

Schools fight dominates record spending on lobbying (New York World)

NY Lobbyist Wins the Lottery In NY's Big Gamble

MGM Resorts International, the Las Vegas-based casino giant, inked a $15,000-a-month contract with Kasirer Consulting late last month to lobby for a shot at a full-fledged casino in New York. Like the other big players, MGM is taking a close look at New York City, even with Manhattan off the table and Genting angling for an exclusivity agreement for its racetrack casino in Queens. Among the entities MGM expects to lobby are the New York City Council and the mayor. “New York (City) could be a very interesting market, and that’s the reason we included that in Kasirer’s possible areas in which they’d be involved,” said Alan Feldman, a spokesman for MGM. 

Other Lobbyist Will Do Well Also In the Fight to See Which Gambling Whales Get the State's 7 Slots

“I can’t tell you whether that’s the way it’s actually going to work. I don’t know what the Legislature is going to do.” But Feldman said there is room for more than one casino in the city if gambling is legalized. “I think that the powers that be, both in the city and the state, realize that in addition to what Genting is talking about, there’s still potential to do more,” he said. “So part of this is having a conversation about the size of the market.”

A Lobbyists, His Wife and His Mother Are Chosen as Delegates to the Democratic Convention This Summer 

Evan Stavisky - an absentee District Leader and founder of the Parkside Lobbying Firm – will be accompanying  his mother State Senator Toby Stavisky as two of the seven delegates selected from New York’s 5th CD to nominate President Obama in North Carolina.  Evan’s wife Kristen Stavisky, the chairwoman of the Rockland County Democratic Party, is also a delegate. His mother State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky is also going. Other delegates from Queens(Queens Politics)

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Where Does Evan Stavisky Queens or Rockland County?

The Parkside Group's Evan Stavisky wife is the Democratic leader from Rockland County.  Evan is a district leader in 26th Assembly District in Queens.  The blogger and journalist protect this corrupt bum who was paid over $2 million to deliver a Democratic State Senate and failed. Stavisky ran the Weprin congressional campaign disaster.

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Lipsky is Not the Only Lobbyists Came Back After Illegal or Questionable Activity  Global Strategy, Patricia Lynch, Roberto Ramirez, Hank Sheinkopf (List in Formation)

Is Richard Lipsky back lobbying, following his plea on two felony charges for bribing former Sen. Carl Kruger? We received this link (http://bit.ly/zyKWaC) in an email yesterday from Willetseminent domain at the Willets Point development in Queens. It is written in Lipsky’s trademark firebrand blogging style, and Lipsky had been writing for the group before his guilty plea last week on bribery charges. But Lipsky insisted to us in an email he no longer is lobbying for the group – and says Robert Loscalzo is now doing the group’s writing. (CHN)

What Did Bruce Rattner Know and Do?

Feds Must Find If the High Fees Paid To Lobbyists Are Intended for Bribes

Lobbyist Pleads Guilty to Paying Bribes to a State Senator(NYT) Prosecutors charged that over several years, Mr. Lipskyhad shared lobbying fees with Mr. Kruger in return for the senator’s actions on matters about which Mr. Lipsky had been paid to lobby. A major client of Lipsky, a large one, was a real estate developer that has been identified in news reports as Forest City Ratner.

 

Media Only Reports on the Pleas Ignores Others Involved

The NYT  mentioned Rattner' Forest City real estate company as one of Lipsky's clients but did not say what Kruger did for them or who was involved with them. * Lobbyist Lipsky Admits to Bribery(WSJ) * Lobbyist Linked To Kruger Pleads Guilty In Bribery Case(NY1)

 

Lipsky was Ratner's Forest City 2nd Lobbyist Bribery Indictment in A Year                       

Developer of Major New Rochelle Project, Forest City Ratner, Bribed Yonkers Official Sexy Sandy Annabi, U.S. Attorney Charges (Talk of the Sound)

A Forest City Ratner executive whose cozy relationship with state Sen. Carl Kruger is featured in a new criminal complaint against the Brooklyn politician personally lobbied a Yonkers councilman hours before a controversial vote that later led to bribery charges against a councilwoman. Yonkers Council Majority Leader John Murtagh Jr. said FCR Vice President Bruce Bender leaned on him in 2006 to change his expected vote opposing a controversial FCR development. Kruger crony leaned on me for vote: pol

Forest City Public Tit Money Caught in Corrupt Kruger

Bruce Bender, an executive with the development company Forest City Ratner who came out of Kruger's Thomas Jefferson club, was pressing him for $15 million in state funding for three Brooklyn projects.  Mr. Kruger said he would get back to him. Half an hour later, he checked with his aides, found out he had $500,0000 left over at his own discretion, and told them to give it to the company for a project at Prospect Park.  “I love you,” Mr. Bender said a few minutes later  In a Series of Phone Calls, an Ear Into a Federal Corruption Case * Atlantic Yards Efforts in View in Kruger Case(WSJ) * "I Don't Mind F-king The Bridge."(Develop Don't Destroy) *WSJ, regarding Kruger case, goes easy on FCR's obligation to rebuild bridge, reveals unmet request for additional city housing subsidy (Atlantic Yard Report)

Media Also Gamed By Lobbyists Artz and Sheinkopf Running Congressional Campaigns

As if the impending three-way congressional race between Rep. Ed Towns, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Councilman Charles Barron didn't have enough drama, the race could also well be a battle between two of the state's best-known political consultants -- who happen to be arch-enemies. As noted yesterday by Capital New York, George Arzt and Hank Sheinkopf, formerly close friends, now refuse to speak to one another. Arzt's firm is signed on as the campaign consultant for Jeffries, while Sheinkopf has a longstanding relationship with Towns and is already acting as something of a campaign spokesman. (Sheinkopf says he hasn't officially signed onto the campaign -- at least not yet.) "I'm looking forward to it," said Arzt of the likely competition with his nemesis. Sheinkopf was less diplomatic. "I don't know what George Arzt does, and I don't much care," Sheinkopf said. (CHN)

 

NYP Used By Sheinkopf When They Allow Him to Attack Liu A George Arzt Client

 Ridiculous: NYP Uses Consultant Who Took the 5th to Judge Liu's Conduct(True News)

Redistricting Battle Under Way, With Lobbyists and Lawyers


March 11, 2011

Pay to Play Lobbyist

Lobbyist Richard Lipsky allegedly paid part of his fees to Kruger, who then pushed Lipsky's agenda, including efforts to ban big-box retailers like Walmart from New York. (An FBI raid of Lipsky's house uncovered $100,000 in cash and $4,000 in "crisp" bills in his suit pocket.). At the time the agents were searching Mr. Lipsky's home, 26 calls were placed from Mr. Kruger's phone to Mr. Lipsky's phone every few minutes from roughly 9:55 a.m. until 12:25 p.m., according to a complaint.* Corruption: Lobbyist Richard Lipsky fashioned himself a defender of underdogs. [David Halbfinger] *  Busted Lobbyist Explains Why He's Not Blogging (NYO) * Corruption: Where Kruger steered money. [Brooklyn Ink]

Albany Lobbyist Above the Law

Hevesi fallout widens to include Rattner, Global Strategy Group * Andrew Cuomo pay-to-play pension probe nails Hevesi pal Patricia Lynch *  Lobbyist Hank Sheinkopf Took the 5th in the Aquduct gambling investigations * Lobbyist Bill Lynch set up a meeting with Rev. Flake with Patterson, even though Lynch was a lobbyist against a company against Flacke  

 April 4, 2011

No Ethic Law Will Protect the Payoffs That Carl Kruger Received From Lobbyists and Developers

Only Sting Operations and Wire Taps Will Catch Cash Payoffs 

With the City's DA failing to bring corruption cases we need a supper statewide DA to police the state's elected officials. What is need in the ethic bill is not only the power to investigate the legislature itself, but also to prosecute wrongdoing.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Many Political Consultants/lobbyist Breed Corruption: Political Insiders Use Pols to Become Rich From Government

Breaking News U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud * Bank sued over role in subprime crisis that trashed economy * Lehman may have grounds to sue Goldman, Barclays

Political Consultants/ Lobbyists Breed Corruption

Political Insiders Use Pols to Become Rich From Government

How is the world can a political consultant firm Global Strategy Group paid $2,000,000 Two Million in a fine to the AG for illegally arranging a meeting between the current comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, and an investment fund and still stay in business. That fact alone tell you how much money they make off of government. They are the new prince of the city, Pay to Play millionaires. We know how they got the power to influence the pols, they help elect them. Just look at who is at the heart of the pension scandal, Hank Morris. He used the fact that he elected Hevesi to the Comptrollers office to loot pension funds not only in New York but in LA, New Mexico and who else knows where. Morris and Global are not the only lobbyist consultant who are at the center of corruption today in New York. Consulting Firm Among Five to Settle in Pension Corruption Probe * Democratic consulting firm Global Strategy Group also settled with Cuomo, but Roberto Ramirez’s lobbying firm, the Mirram Group, remains under scrutiny.

The AEG Bunch
Consultant Bill Lynch phone call to Paterson aboard Amtrack had to have to have a lot to do with AEG losing it winning bid at aqueduct and the federal investigation of it partner Flake and it political supporters Meeks and Smith. Lynch who must have been a follower of the late Roy Cohen school of business, set up a meeting between Paterson who he was an political advisor and Flake a day after AEG won the contract for video slots at Aqueduct. The thing is that Lynch was being paid by SL Green a competing company to win the contract for them. It is clear the the political consultant lobbyist business is not only corrupt it is very inse Cheating, Lying, Stealing --"Not me?" said, Mr. SL Green * Queens residents rallied against what they see as “racist” coverage of the death of the AEG deal * Hundreds of people rallied in Queens against “racist journalism” of the Aqueduct deal. (City Hall)

Council Slush Fund and the Parkside Consult Group
Yesterday the New York Appellate Court ruled two to three against Normal Siegel Petition to set up a public inquiry into who was responsible for the Council Slush fund scandal. Siegel is expected to appeal. If one more judge sided with the inquiry we might have gotten some answers to who was behind the slush fund which we have not gotten to date from the federal investigation or the press. Siegel would have been able to question former Speaker Giff Miller and Speaker Quinn why the Parkside consultant/lobbying group had some many non profits funded by the city as clients. Parkside had worked closely with Miller until press reports during his campaign for mayor forced him to put some distance from Parkside. This blog story has a lot of question Siegel could have asked Miller, Parkside and the other Council Bums A Letter to Garcia: (Michael) Garcia U.S. Attorney

There are other consultant lobbyist like the biggest Harold Rubinstein who is so metastasized into the city' government, politics, media and establishment it is impossible to document how he operates

March 17, 2011

Ratner: When Your Lobbyist is Arrested Your Distract

Ratner's Forest City project at Atlantic Terminal ongoing problems with funding beyond the public tit just got deeper.  Their lobbyist Richard Lipsky and VP Bruce Bender are caught up to their eyeballs in the Kruger pay to play scandal.  If you depend on government money and in the middle of of a federal corruption scandal you get your tenants the NYT (Ratner built the financially troubled Times HQ) to run a puff piece to distract the public and pretend your making progress Prefabricated Tower May Rise at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards (NYT)

 

Record Lobbyists Dollars is Pouring Oil On the Albany Corruption

The record number of dollars give to lobbyists it the biggest enable to keep the corrupt system going.Drink makers lead $211M lobby gusher (NYP) Pouring nearly $13 million into a successful campaign to defeat Paterson's effort to impose a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages. 

 

 ALBANY LOBBYISTS REAP WINDFALL FIGHTING SODA TAX LAST YEAR ... March 5, 2011 (NYP)

 

HANK MORRIS PLEADS GUILTY IN PENSION FUND PAY-TO-PLAY SCANDAL  N ov 24, 2010

 

Lobbying for Gold in Albany - NYTimes.com 12/9/2010

 

Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting - 11/10/2010

 

 

 

Friday, April 16, 2010

Many Political Consultants/lobbyist Breed Corruption: Political Insiders Use Pols to Become Rich From Government

Breaking News U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud * Bank sued over role in subprime crisis that trashed economy * Lehman may have grounds to sue Goldman, Barclays

Political Consultants/ Lobbyists Breed Corruption

Political Insiders Use Pols to Become Rich From Government

How is the world can a political consultant firm Global Strategy Group paid $2,000,000 Two Million in a fine to the AG for illegally arranging a meeting between the current comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, and an investment fund and still stay in business. That fact alone tell you how much money they make off of government. They are the new prince of the city, Pay to Play millionaires. We know how they got the power to influence the pols, they help elect them. Just look at who is at the heart of the pension scandal, Hank Morris. He used the fact that he elected Hevesi to the Comptrollers office to loot pension funds not only in New York but in LA, New Mexico and who else knows where. Morris and Global are not the only lobbyist consultant who are at the center of corruption today in New York. Consulting Firm Among Five to Settle in Pension Corruption Probe * Democratic consulting firm Global Strategy Group also settled with Cuomo, but Roberto Ramirez’s lobbying firm, the Mirram Group, remains under scrutiny.

The AEG Bunch
Consultant Bill Lynch phone call to Paterson aboard Amtrack had to have to have a lot to do with AEG losing it winning bid at aqueduct and the federal investigation of it partner Flake and it political supporters Meeks and Smith. Lynch who must have been a follower of the late Roy Cohen school of business, set up a meeting between Paterson who he was an political advisor and Flake a day after AEG won the contract for video slots at Aqueduct. The thing is that Lynch was being paid by SL Green a competing company to win the contract for them. It is clear the the political consultant lobbyist business is not only corrupt it is very inse Cheating, Lying, Stealing --"Not me?" said, Mr. SL Green * Queens residents rallied against what they see as “racist” coverage of the death of the AEG deal * Hundreds of people rallied in Queens against “racist journalism” of the Aqueduct deal. (City Hall)

Council Slush Fund and the Parkside Consult Group
Yesterday the New York Appellate Court ruled two to three against Normal Siegel Petition to set up a public inquiry into who was responsible for the Council Slush fund scandal. Siegel is expected to appeal. If one more judge sided with the inquiry we might have gotten some answers to who was behind the slush fund which we have not gotten to date from the federal investigation or the press. Siegel would have been able to question former Speaker Giff Miller and Speaker Quinn why the Parkside consultant/lobbying group had some many non profits funded by the city as clients. Parkside had worked closely with Miller until press reports during his campaign for mayor forced him to put some distance from Parkside. This blog story has a lot of question Siegel could have asked Miller, Parkside and the other Council Bums A Letter to Garcia: (Michael) Garcia U.S. Attorney

There are other consultant lobbyist like the biggest Harold Rubinstein who is so metastasized into the city' government, politics, media and establishment it is impossible to document how he operates

Pensiongate Investigation Quadrangle quickly threw Rattner under the bus, calling his behavior “inappropriate, wrong and unethical.” *SEC enforcement chief: "The victims were New York state's hardworking retirees, who were entitled to have honest advisors manage their hard-earned dollars." * Ben Smith: "The scandal that erupted in the office of former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi is a study in contrasts: High flying private equity titans, allegedly caught with their hands in the pockets of teachers, clerks, and sanitation workers. Top politicians whose salaries are stuck in the low six-figures, suddenly in control of pots of money running into the twelve-figures. And top Democratic donors who cast themselves as high-minded, disinterested dabblers in the public good are revealed to have quite a bit of interest after all. * Quadrangle said Steven Rattner is the one who hired Hank Morris. * Cuomo wants pension reform * Brown University invested with Quadrangle, but didn't comment when reached by the school paper.

Play to Play Katz All retiring Melinda Katz work on behalf of the developers and real estate industry as committee chairman of the council's land use committee is paying off alreadyKatz joining real estate lobbying firm Surprise, surprise. What an example she makes to the next chairman of her committee or to the other fine council leadership committee that make decision on millions of dollars special interests are seeking

State Lobbying Soars Passed $200M

 

 

 

 

As New Yorkers Lose Jobs and Government Services Albany Lobbyists Make More Money

The state’s budget crisis has been good for the lobbying industry, which raked in a record $213 million last year

 With the indictment of lobbyist Richard Lipsky why is the media and good government groups ignoring the very real probability that elected officials are tapping into some of the record sums paid on lobbying.  We already know they get some of that money in the form of campaign contributions Richard Lipsky, Powerful Lobbyist, Faces Corruption Charges ...

Lobbyists Win In Budget Crisis  The state's budget crisis proved to be a lucrative opportunity for the lobbying industry, which spent a record $213 million last year to influence Albany, according to a new report by the state's lobbying regulator. (WSJ) *  Even in a slow lobbying year, Forest City Ratner spent some $345,000 on array of lobbying firms, including Lipsky (Atlantic Yard Reports)

 

NYT Quotes Kheinkopf on Hank Morris
“The temptations are huge,” Hank Sheinkopf, a political strategist often called “the other Hank” in the clubby precincts of New York politics, told The Times. “If you have any stature at all, you’re always asked to leverage your connections.” Pension Inquiry Reveals Power Broker’s Web May 14, 2009

Sheinkopf Partner Levy Partner with City Pension Agent
Levy and comptroller Thompson oldest and closest supporters, a broker named William Howell, have been business associates in several ventures, including a Philadelphia-based company that Howell formed called Pension Enhancement Consulting. The men are so in sync that they repeatedly manage to make hefty donations of the exact same amount on the same day to political committees across the country. Howell and his family have donated $28,000 to Thompson since his first run for office in 2001. Norman Levy is a quietly influential city lobbyist who was Thompson's chief fundraiser when he was assembling his initial war chest to run for comptroller in 2001. Levy operates largely below the radar, presumably because of his narrow escape back in 1973 when he was convicted of running a parking-tickets-fixing scam for politically wired drivers. The conviction was later overturned. Howell made $3 million, plus unspecified bonuses a a placement agent for the city's pension fund *

 

Stanley Schlein Rides Again A Bronx fixer's scandalous history doesn't bother Yankees or Democrats


Bronx Lawyer Is a Power Behind Several Thrones


Stanley Schlein Rides Again

Bronx Lobbyist Serves as Espada's Lawyer in Senate Talks - NYTimes.com

Recent allies pedro espada, stanley schlein had fistfight

Stanley Slime gets Largest Fine ever by Conflict of Interest Board

Stanley Schlein Fined for Conflict of interest | New York Politics 

 

A limitless line of lobbyists still pulling strings in Albany

Albany Lobbyist System Caused by Leaders Lack of Ethics and Morals Standards

Lawmakers-turned-lobbyists Al D'Amato and Susan Molinari

Lobbyist Al D'Amato Helps Himself $$$

Legalizing Pay to Play

Lobbyist Al D'Amato Helps Himself $$$

Campaign Consultant Lobbyists Cause Corruption

Pension Fund Lobbyist? Comptroller Elected John Liu transition team should require New York's pension funds placement agents to register as lobbyists, in response to the corruption uncovered by AG Cuomo and the SEC CalPERS (California Pension fund) to consider requiring placement agents to register as lobbyists , California May Limit Placement Agents *** Weiner's Bad Week On Tuesday Congresman Anthony Weiner realized he would have been the next mayor if he stayed in the race. On Thursday he was forced to give up his fight for single payer health reform. On Friday Weiner the Met fan how to watch the Yankees celebrate with the mayor their chaimpsonship Weiner Drops Push to Force Vote on ‘Single Payer’ Plan *** On Facebook a PETITION: New Yorker's Against the MTA Payroll Tax has 1518 signers a Petition to Fire State Senator Monserrate has 681 members Lynch Loves the Boycott Political Consultant Lobbyist Bill Lynch is the real power behind Comptroller John Liu. Liu is already boycotting the mayor Comptroller-Elect Snubs Mayor Bloomberg When Lynch was deputy mayor for Dinkins they were responsible for the city's most famous boycott of the Koren R.& N. Fruit and Vegetable Market Judge Critical Of Dinkins Over Boycott Spin for Bonuses The close result make Bloomberg's campaign staff defend their work to justify the usual very generous bonuses the mayor paid his campaign staffs in other campaigns. They are begging the mayor must be mad at their work Making sense of Mike's re-elex nonsense

Lobbyist Watches Lobbyist . . . What A Joke: The Public Integrity Commission

Play to Play Katz All retiring Melinda Katz work on behalf of the developers and real estate industry as committee chairman of the council's land use committee is paying off alreadyKatz joining real estate lobbying firm Surprise, surprise. What an example she makes to the next chairman of her committee or to the other fine council leadership committee that make decision on millions of dollars special interests are seeking
 

Top 10 Lobbyist City 

 

With Independent Redistricting There Would Be No Need for NY Congressional Members to Hiring Consultants to Lobby Albany

Congressman Hiring Lobbyists: Eliot Engel gets Spano, Brian Higgins hired Lynch, and Joe Crowley gets Meara. All working on redistricting. [Jon Campbell / Democrat and Chronicle] First reported by Maggie Haberman at Politico.

COMMON CAUSE/NY:BIG MONEY SPENT IN ALBANY TO INFLUENCE HOUSING POLICY  
RENT REGULATION AND THE 421A SUBSIDY

 

Lawmakers-turned-lobbyists Al D'Amato and Susan Molinari collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from Freddie Mac to help thwart government regulation *** DC 'CHARITY' BASH A CASH & LOBBYING GRAB *** A Good Power Broker Is Getting Harder to Find

D'Amato was paid $500,000 by the owners of 2 Broadway to work out a dispute with the MTA, the building major tenant over repairs, even though Al was not their registered lobbyists *** Mob indictments over renovations of 2 Broadway *** More D'Amato lobbyists corruption

 

 

 

Pay to Play Consultants Global Strategy Group and Comptroller DiNapoli
Finish the probe, Andrew A key part of the probe -- involving state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli -- needs to be wrapped up . . . pronto. Specifically, Cuomo is looking at a $15 million investment by the pension fund just weeks after DiNapoli met with a private investment executive in a meeting arranged by a political consulting firm, Global Strategy Group. In April, Global Strategy -- which also lacked required securities licenses -- agreed to pay $2 million to end the AG's probe of its role in the affair. (NYP Ed) * Some Democrats are worried by Cuomo’s refusal to endorse his fellow Democrat, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

 

COMMON CAUSE/NY:BIG MONEY SPENT IN ALBANY TO INFLUENCE HOUSING POLICY  
RENT REGULATION AND THE 421A SUBSIDY

Weprin Consultant Parkside Also Made Millions Off of Member Items

Parkside's Evan Stavisky is The Modern Boss Tweed

In 2005 in a NYT article Dick Dadey executive director of Citizens Union expressed concern about what he called "a growing problem" of council members being lobbied by firms that serve as political consultants to many of them. "It clearly gives a lobbyist who does campaign work unfair advantage, because it gives them a level of access to the elected official that they otherwise would not have." In 2005 the Parkside was paid a total of $1.7 million by more than 40 clients last year, many of them nonprofit receiving member items from the city council.  The Parkside Group, carved out a dual role in New York politics: as lobbyist for nonprofit groups seeking city money and as a political consultant to a dozen council members, including the speaker and the Finance Committee chairman, who have a major hand in approving budget requests from those same groups. Miller who became so close to Parkside after it helped him win his speaker post asked one of Parkside partners to help him hire a chief of staff. Did Parkside Get Funds from Millers Slush Fund?  In 2004, Miller launched his ill-fated drive to become mayor right from Parkside's offices. Lobbyists' Role in Council Slush Fund Scandal Probed (City Sun 2008)

Councilman Weprin, Chairman of the Finance Committee, said he did not see a problem with Parkside's lobbying effort  Weprin was a parkside client back then as he is now.

The NYP Uses Hank SheinkopfLiu

John’s looking more like Liu-ser every day (NYP) This is what Sheinkopf said about Liu: "“It’s hard to be the city’s chief fiscal officer when your integrity is being questioned and you’re under federal investigation.” The NYP Fails to say that the lobbyist political consultant Sheinkopf took the 5th when asked questions by the NY former state Inspector General Joseph Fisch about the AEG scandal which is not being investigated by the feds.  The Feds are also investigation a Board Of Election (the cesspool of political corruption) contract for new machines that Sheinkopf was a lobbyist for. Feds investigate switch by Board of Elections ... - New York Post

 

Where Does Evan Stavisky Queens or Rockland County?

The Parkside Group's Evan Stavisky wife is the Democratic leader from Rockland County.  Evan is a district leader in 26th Assembly District in Queens.  The blogger and journalist protect this corrupt bum who was paid over $2 million to deliver a Democratic State Senate and failed.

 

 

Lobbyist Going to Make Millions More in Gambling $$$ After Record Breaking Year

Gold Rush(C&S) With billions at stake among tough competitors, the only sure winners are lobbyists. To a certain kind of operator, New York is filled with rich deposits of gold. *  A History Of Bad Bets (C&S) * Betting’s Past Lives Alongside Its Future (C&S) * One group that is sure to win as Albany wrestles with how to expand non-Indian run gambling: Lobbyists. Racetrack owner on gambling bill: "If you’re asking me if this bill is good for lobbyists, I’d have to say yes *

A Record Breaking Year For Lobbying(Capital Tonight)

 

NY Government For Sale

NYPIRG: $220m Spent In Lobbying In 2011 (YNN)* Long List: The Number of Lobbyists In Albany in 2011(Albany Watch)

Should Have Been Titled The Fixer and the Press Enables Who Print Whatever the Fixers Spin

The Fixers (City and State)  Carl Kruger Fixer Benjamin Brafman  * Ken Sunshine Kerry Kennedy * SKDKnickerbocker Stefan Friedman * Lupé Todd, a vice president at George Arzt Communications * Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s personal crisis manager * Susan Del Percio Fossella secret family* PR maven Ken Sunshine, a longtime ally of the Cuomo family, says there are no skeletons hanging in the political clan’s closet, insisting they’re “as clean and honest as any public servants in the country.”

How Does Nussbaum Get Away Without Being A Registered Lobbyists for the RKO Keith?

RKO Keith's owner owes a lot of taxes(Queens Crap)

“He’s on the way to paying it,” said Michael Nussbaum, spokesman for Thompson.  According to Michael Nussbaum, a spokesperson for Patrick Thompson — who bought the foreclosed Northern Boulevard property for $20 million in 2010 — the developer is still committed to the project and has no plans to put the property on the market. Property owner and developer Patrick Thompson had to resubmit his proposal to the FAA after a previous approval expired. The site’s last owner, Shaya Boymelgreen, received FAA clearance for the same proposal submitted in 2003, said Thompson’s spokesperson Michael Nussbaum, who added that plans for the tower’s height have not changed for the past six years. * True News: The Media Allows Nussbaum to Pimp His Ride * True News: A Takeover Of Journalism by Lobbyist and Politicians * True News: True News: Nussbaum Unplugged A New Organized ... * True News: The Queens Chronicle Asks Why is A Sex Sex Trafficker ...

From the Times Ledger:

The owner of the crumbling RKO Keith’s Theatre in downtown Flushing still owes more than $380,000 in unpaid back taxes and entered into a payment plan earlier this year to prevent the city from putting a lien on the property.

Developer Patrick Thompson is seeking to build a 16-story, mixed-use building around the landmarked lobby of the historic theater, at 135-35 Northern Blvd., and is trying to secure finances to get a shovel in the ground at the site of the $160 million project.

 Al D'Amato, Inc.

Al D'Amato's influence broadens as his Park Strategies firm grows(Newsday)
A Newsday review of lobby records shows D'Amato's firm, Park Strategies, earned $5.9 million on lobbying in 2013 -- a 60 percent jump from the year before and a 150 percent increase from 2011. That likely will place Park Strategies in the top five companies when the annual state lobbying report is published in March. * The consulting firm headed by former US Sen. Alfonse D’Amato has quickly become one of the fastest rising lobbying outfits in New York, absorbing other companies and adding experienced political hands from either major political party.