Assemblyman William Scarborough helped pass an Assembly budget that rejects the executive budget proposal to cut taxes for the state’s wealthiest. “With a $10 billion deficit and scores of painful cuts on the tables, including sizeable reductions in critical education and health care programs,...
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Four Brooklyn residents were arrested recently after police found 30 guns and nine other weapons in their home in Gravesend.
Thomas Siano, 57, his 58-year-old wife Kathleen Siano, his 29-year-old son Vincent Siano and 29-year-old family friend and tenant Michael Poole were arrested and charged with multiple...
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Federal housing officials on Tuesday served subpoenas on 15 mortgage companies with suspiciously high default rates for loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration. The actions are part of a broad crackdown on dubious lenders as the agency tries to stem losses.
After the housing market went bust, the...
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The Department of Homeless Services (DHS) paid out millions of dollars ($152.7 million in FY08) to non-contracted service providers based on an “honor system” of unwritten agreements, invented rates and duplicate clients lists, according to an audit initiated under former Comptroller William C. Thompson,...
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Two firms offering services for immigrants in Manhattan and the Bronx have been charged with fraud.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing two non-profits — International Immigrants Foundation and International Professional Association — for allegedly scamming immigrants by making false promises...
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The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean’s charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster’s wake.
However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of...
