Fallen NY Congressman To Return Donor Funds
Fallen ex-congressman Chris Lee is telling campaign donors that he intends to refund all of their money after resigning in the wake of controversy.
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Fallen ex-congressman Chris Lee is telling campaign donors that he intends to refund all of their money after resigning in the wake of controversy.
Bloomberg said in his weekly radio appearance on Friday that people who want to donate should call 311 or go to the 311 Web site. The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City was collecting the funds.
There was word of an expanding Albany corruption investigation on Friday. Sources say the pay-to-play probe that led to the indictment of Brooklyn Sen. Carl Kruger isn't over.
Nicholson stunned the governor with the compliment at a town hall meeting Wednesday night.
Rep. Peter King's hearings took an emotional turn when Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, tried to speak of the heroism and patriotism of Mohamad Salman Hamdani, a New York City EMT who died on 9/11.
On average, New York City employees are paid 17 percent less than workers in the private sector, according to Comptroller John Liu.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie received an unusually warm reception at a town hall meeting Wednesday -- warm enough to make him blush.
"The reasons the hearings are focusing on the Muslim community, the president's own national security advisor said al Qaeda is attempting to radicalize the Muslim-American community," King said.
The jury will decide whether Councilman Marty Small and five co-defendants tried to steal the 2009 Democratic mayoral primary election by tampering with or mishandling messenger absentee ballots.
A bill proposed and co-sponsored by Legislators Judi Bosworth and Judy Jacobs would ban smoking in all motor vehicles in Nassau County with at least one passenger younger than 18.
The advocates accuse some of the team's members appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo of capping malpractice awards to serve the hospitals that employ them.
A new Rutgers-Eagleton poll showed Christie's favorable rating slipping to 46 percent, down from 49 in December.
Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee chairman Herb Conway said the bill was a "recipe for disaster." The Burlington County Democrat, who also is a physician, said it could lead to outbreaks of preventable diseases.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said there won't be a new Windows on the World-type restaurant at 1 World Trade Center. That dining institution sat atop one of the original twin towers prior to the 9/11 terror attacks.
A New York judge has thrown out a defendant's drunken driving conviction amid growing questions over the accuracy of results from the Nassau County crime lab.
