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Richard Ravitch

Bellone memo: Levy misled bond agencies
budget wrangling is a part of politics and not prosecutable."I have no reason to believe there is any criminality," said Richard Ravitch , a former New York lieutenant governor and veteran fiscal troubleshooter. "It's almost a universal truth that politicians Read more »

NYC: On MTA Board, David Paterson Could Be a Force for Transit Funding
late 2008, then-Governor David Paterson stood with Richard Ravitch and Michael Bloomberg to announce his support for tolling the East and Harlem River bridges. Will Paterson continue to serve as a voice for road pricing and transit funding on the MTA board? from Streetsblog Read more »
Judy Rife: Congestion pricing may still become NYC reality
transportation infrastructure. And what makes Schwartz think he can reach the unreachable star when Michael Bloomberg and Richard Ravitch have not? Nothing, really, other than a conviction that congestion pricing, and tolls on those free East River bridges, from Times Herald-Record Read more »
Yonkers Faces $90 Million Budget Hole
billion budget. And it projected an accumulated gap of $550 million over the next four years.The commission was led by Richard Ravitch, a former lieutenant governor who is a municipal finance expert, and Richard Brodsky, a former Democratic state assemblyman from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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control of its finances last year. And the city of Yonkers said its finances were in such dire straits that it had drafted Richard Ravitch, the former lieutenant governor, to help chart a way out. Even as there are glimmers of a national economic recovery, from The Yonkers Insider Online Read more »