New York City Informer

Count Ginger Lee, a stripper who was intimately involved in the sexting scandal that led to former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s downfall, as among his detractors as he now seeks the top job in City Hall. “I do not think Anthony Weiner should run for Mayor of New York City because even now, nearly two years [...]

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Larry Norden Deputy Director, Brennan Center for Justice The past 10 years have been really bad for Albany. We’ve had at least 13 convictions of elected officials, many more indictments, including three of the last five Senate majority leaders. That’s not a single event, but it’s been a bad decade for Albany. The sheer volume, [...]

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More details emerged Monday suggesting that the Treasury Department was involved in the IRS mulling over a public admission of its activities targeting conservative groups. The Washington Post reports that according to a Treasury Department official, there was communication between both federal government wings on three occasions to discuss how a disclosure should be handled. [...]

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  NEW YORK — City Council Speaker and Democratic mayoral frontrunner Christine Quinn confessed to her struggles with bulimia and alcoholism. Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner appeared to hire a campaign manager for his own bid to be the next mayor. And the latest embarrassment to public integrity in Albany leached into one City Council race. That and much [...]

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President Obama says Steven Miller resigned amid an investigation that found the agency improperly targeted conservative groups. WABC-TV New York News, Weather and Traffic | New York Area News

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Last Sunday, a piece of mine, “Chicago Manuals,” was published in the New York Times Book Review, a round-up of three—well four actually, if you count the reprint of the 1893 guidebook due out in May–books about Chicago, where I have lived for the last thirteen years since I left New York. It was a [...]

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Companies eager to navigate federal regulations and red tape say that Anthony D. Weiner, the former congressman, is worth every cent.      NYT > N.Y. / Region

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Talking about why corruption happens, what can be done to stop and what people think about it. City Limits – News

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In his first TV interview since his 2011 resignation following a text message sex scandal, former Rep. Anthony Weiner told NY1 that his wife is giving him a second chance and he wants the city to do the same. He said he will make a decision soon about running for mayor, but he already sounds [...]

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Adam Scott has become the first Australian to win the Masters, beating Angel Cabrera on the second hole of a playoff on a rainy day at Augusta National.      New York News – NY Daily News

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As he considers a potential mayoral run in the wake of an online sex scandal, former Congressman Anthony D. Weiner has won a vote of confidence from a politician who can identify with his predicament: Eliot Spitzer. City Room

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The 2009 indictment that allowed the United States Attorney’s Office to turn a Bronx assemblyman into a mole was unsealed Wednesday in Bronx County Supreme Court. Nelson Castro, who resigned his Assembly seat earlier this week, was indicted in 2009 on three counts of perjury. He allegedly lied during a 2008 hearing on his eligibility [...]

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Days after a political bribery scandal rocked the city, GOP mayoral candidate Joe Lhota offered solutions to curb corruption, and accused the Democratic front-runner, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, of not doing enough to stop council members from abusing their power. amNewYork’s Urbanite

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A New York state assemblyman has been charged in a bribery scandal along with four other defendants. WNYW – NYC News

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The IDC State Sen. Malcolm Smith woke up to FBI agents pounding on his door in Queens on Tuesday morning—and his colleagues in the Independent Democratic Conference woke up to a pounding headache. Federal prosecutors charged Smith with bribing New York City political officials in a quixotic bid to run for mayor on the Republican [...]

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