LOOK AT THE DATE OF MY LETTER 2006 and I talk about NYC’s budget crisis than….
Thanks to swampman new york post because without you I couldn’t have found one of my favorite letters in The New York Posts sports section. Check out my letter on the Yankee’s passionless play and my idea on how to get money back in to the city’s budgetary black hole and this is an old letter! (I am an ex-jock and was a basketball star in high school despite a lousy coach so getting published in The NYPOST sports section on behalf of Brian Leech and busting the Yankee’s big bloated ….salaries including the head dudes in the office telling us we need to give them more money for their over priced stadium is an honor.
Can we have a clause written in to bloated players salary packages that if they don’t make the play offs they have to return mega bucks of their salary and it gets donated to NYC’s on going black hole of a budgetary crisis?
Is city council going to unvote themselves a raise?
Is Christine Quinn going to step forth and explain slushgate and the tax payers having to pay close to a quarter million dollars so far in legal bills for her and her staff?
Will city council slush receipents account for the 20 million the mayor has given them…because between the two slush funds that is aprox 40 million dollars so where did it all go?
Activist sent me this comment with this email: What no paper or reporter has yet addressed is that the value of work by any of these law firms for any council member should be treated as additional personal income subject to taxation. If attorney Lee Richards, charging $600 per hour as the article states, is being paid from taxpayer money (as previous articles have stated), then Quinn should pay taxes on that additional benefit.
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COUNCIL IN $LUSH MESS
By SALLY GOLDENBERG
NY Post
Last updated: 3:29 am
December 11, 2008
Posted: 2:38 am
December 11, 2008
The City Council is quickly running through taxpayer money paid to two top-of-the-line law firms and a high-profile attorney hired to advise and represent members and staffers snagged in a slush-fund probe – and has even quietly signed another firm, The Post has learned.
White-collar crime specialist Steptoe & Johnson so far has been paid $122,173. A $95,000 retainer for the firm Sullivan & Cromwell already has been depleted. And ex-federal prosecutor Lee Richards, who charges $600 an hour, has been hired as personal criminal defense lawyer for Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
Now, The Post has learned, the firm Brune and Richard was hired Sept. 30 with a $90,000 retainer – and no public announcement. This, despite assurances from Quinn the process would be transparent.
Quinn spokeswoman Maria Alvarado said the latest firm was brought on board in case any conflicts of interest arose for people seeking help from Steptoe & Johnson. Alvarado refused to release the names of individuals who tapped into the Steptoe fund, saying it is “confidential information.”
A council source, however, said it was staffers – not members – who have sought advice.
Since 2002, the council hid $17 million in grants to nonexistent organizations and later gave the money to individual members for projects in their districts. The city Department of Investigation and the US Attorney’s Office in New York have launched joint probes into the practice.
Please also check out this article on the mayor’s slush fund
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Over time, lawsuits against the tobacco industry have proceeded on a variety of grounds. In the first wave of the tobacco litigation, individual smokers sued the industry in tort (as a wrongful act but not a breach of contract) based upon smoking-related disease. This first wave culminated in Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. (1992), in which the Supreme Court held that federal legislation specifying the content of cigarette warnings precludes, in substantial part, lawsuits against the industry by smokers. The Court, however, left open the possibility of lawsuits based upon allegations of fraud.
The second wave of the tobacco litigation exhibits two distinctive features: a focus upon nicotine addiction in addition to smoking-related disease; and the use at trial of internal documents that detail the industrys awareness of the risks posed by its products as well as its extensive efforts to mislead the public concerning those risks. The signal development of this second wave came in a class action in Florida state court that resulted in a $144.8 million punitive damage verdict against the industry. In addition, state governments sued for reimbursement of the sums that they previously had expended in connection with smoking-related disease. These state suits led to a settlement under which the industry is obligated to pay $240 billion to state governments by the year 2025.
Some observers applaud the tobacco litigation for bringing to light the misconduct of the industry, and for forcing it to address the toll that its products take upon both public health and the coffers of the government. Other observers sharply criticize the litigation on several grounds. Practical objections include the claim that the multibillion-dollar state settlement amounts to little more than an indirect tax on cigarettes to be paid by future smokers. A related practical objection is that the litigation is likely to be less effective than direct regulatory measures to control the health risks of smoking, particularly by teenagers. Some see the litigation as a troubling effort to use tort law as a vehicle to punish the tobacco industry, without regard to whether its past misconduct actually caused the injuries of which smokers complain. Finally, some cultural critics frame the litigation as the product of a society in which individuals seek to transfer responsibility to others for the adverse consequences of their own risk-decisions.
Read more: Tobacco Litigation – Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., Ashes to Ashes
I made this when I was beyond exhausted, the 600 an hour dollar lawyer is for Christine Quinn herself and she and the staff + council member have plowed through tax payers money for their defense with top extremely pricey law firms…PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE below!!!!! Activist sent me this comment with this email: What no paper or reporter has yet addressed is that the value of work by any of these law firms for any council member should be treated as additional personal income subject to taxation. If attorney Lee Richards, charging $600 per hour as the article states, is being paid from taxpayer money (as previous articles have stated), then Quinn should pay taxes on that additional benefit.
*****It is Dec. 31, 2008, can we have a financial break down of the legal bills — a running update on how much this is costing the tax payers and the specific individuals being represented as well as why Quinn needs this 600 dollar lawyer. We are in the midst of a terrible economic meltdown so the 17 million dollars plus legal bills need to be aired on tv and explained to the public especially New Yorkers. I made this video under extreme exhaustion and considered redoing it but I am too tired so I am amending today via text.
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COUNCIL IN $LUSH MESS
By SALLY GOLDENBERG
NY Post
Last updated: 3:29 am
December 11, 2008
Posted: 2:38 am
December 11, 2008
The City Council is quickly running through taxpayer money paid to two top-of-the-line law firms and a high-profile attorney hired to advise and represent members and staffers snagged in a slush-fund probe – and has even quietly signed another firm, The Post has learned.
White-collar crime specialist Steptoe & Johnson so far has been paid $122,173. A $95,000 retainer for the firm Sullivan & Cromwell already has been depleted. And ex-federal prosecutor Lee Richards, who charges $600 an hour, has been hired as personal criminal defense lawyer for Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
Now, The Post has learned, the firm Brune and Richard was hired Sept. 30 with a $90,000 retainer – and no public announcement. This, despite assurances from Quinn the process would be transparent.
Quinn spokeswoman Maria Alvarado said the latest firm was brought on board in case any conflicts of interest arose for people seeking help from Steptoe & Johnson. Alvarado refused to release the names of individuals who tapped into the Steptoe fund, saying it is “confidential information.”
A council source, however, said it was staffers – not members – who have sought advice.
Since 2002, the council hid $17 million in grants to nonexistent organizations and later gave the money to individual members for projects in their districts. The city Department of Investigation and the US Attorney’s Office in New York have launched joint probes into the practice.
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Accountability and transparency — from Yankee Stadium to slushgate…?
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Over time, lawsuits against the tobacco industry have proceeded on a variety of grounds. In the first wave of the tobacco litigation, individual smokers sued the industry in tort (as a wrongful act but not a breach of contract) based upon smoking-related disease. This first wave culminated in Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. (1992), in which the Supreme Court held that federal legislation specifying the content of cigarette warnings precludes, in substantial part, lawsuits against the industry by smokers. The Court, however, left open the possibility of lawsuits based upon allegations of fraud.
I made this when I was beyond exhausted, the 600 an hour dollar lawyer is for Christine Quinn herself and she and the staff + council member have plowed through tax payers money for their defense with top extremely pricey law firms…PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE below!!!!! Activist sent me this comment with this email: What no paper or reporter has yet addressed is that the value of work by any of these law firms for any council member should be treated as additional personal income subject to taxation. If attorney Lee Richards, charging $600 per hour as the article states, is being paid from taxpayer money (as previous articles have stated), then Quinn should pay taxes on that additional benefit.
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