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• Suffolk Conservative Party amends donation filing

  after the New York Public Interest Research Group assailed Suffolk Conservative chairman Edward Walsh for taking $50,000 in corporate money from a conservative activist in "apparent violation" of state law, the party revised its filing.Tuesday, the Suffolk   Read more »

• Report: Lobbying earnings up for LI firms

  of Glenwood subsidiaries, has contributed $500,000 to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo since 2010, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group .Statewide, no group spent more than the Committee to Save New York. The deep-pocketed business group allied with   Read more »

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• How New York Became One Of The Most Corrupt States

  Rarely a month seems to pass when there's not some state legislator in New York facing indictment. The latest, former Democratic state Sen. Shirley Huntley, was sentenced Thursday to spend a year and a day in prison for stealing $88,000 from a charity sh   from NPR Read more »

• Good Job! New York State Lawmakers Only Violated Campaign Finance Law 103,805 Times in Two Years

  Sur-prise, everybody. Seems like you can't walk down an Albany sidewalk without stumbling over a lawmaker charged with graft these days, but the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) put out a report yesterday that shows how widely the system   from Village Voice Read more »

• Police: Chemicals caused bottle to burst on RPI Campus

  TROY, NY - A chemical reaction caused a 2-liter soda bottle to explode Tuesday afternoon prompting a hazardous material response on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. According to CaptainMore >> A chemical reaction caused a 2-liter soda bott   from News 10 WTEN Albany Read more »

• Group finds campaign finance violations

  A registered nurse who works in the Pediatric Unit at Olean … A 21-year-old man was charged with aggravated DWI after he was … A Buffalo teenager is in custody, charged with setting the fire… A western New York man has been sentenced to from one to three   from WIVB News Channel 4 Buffalo NY Read more »

• Senate Hearing On NYC Campaign Finance System Goes Out The Window

  Protestors were literally coming in through the windows at today’s state Senate hearing on the New York City campaign finance system. Shut out of the cramped hearing room by the Senate’s sergeants at arms, a group of election-reform protestors eventually   from New York Daily News Read more »