The continuing investigation of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has washed up on Long Island. The Times Union’s Jim Odato reported last week that LIPA had received a subpoena, which by its terms appears to be focused on Richie Kessel’s tenure as Chairman and CEO of LIPA, related to construction work done for LIPA by an [...]
Archive for December 2008
The Richie Kessel NYPA Watch, December 22, 2008 – By George J. Marlin
December 22, 2008The Richie Kessel NYPA Watch, December 15, 2008 – By George J. Marlin
December 15, 2008According to the State Authority Budget Office’s Annual Report issued on July 1, 2008 for the Year Ended December 31, 2007, LIPA which was run by Richie Kessel until Fall 2007 and for the prior ten years, has 49 employees making over $100,000 or fully 49% of its workforce. Not only is NYPA which actually [...]
Slouching towards Insolvency – and Servitude – By George J. Marlin
December 10, 2008This article I wrote appears on The Catholic Thing web site on December 10, 2008.
Unwise Investor? New York State Pension Peril – By George J. Marlin
December 6, 2008This article I wrote appeared in the New York Post on December 2, 2008.
The Richie Kessel NYPA Watch, December 1, 2008 – By George J. Marlin
December 1, 2008Newsday’s Rick Brand reported on November 17, 2008 that Suffolk County had paid $100,000 in order to market the County’s non-emergency call number to Zimmerman-Edelson, a Long Island PR firm headed by Robert Zimmerman, a member of the Democratic National Committee and a “Democratic Strategist” who frequently appears on CNN. Brand also disclosed that since [...]
