Reporters and bloggers throughout New York are taking notice of our campaign. Here are some of the best stories we've seen so far. If you see some great reporting we should feature here, please let us know at campaign@richardbrodsky.com. Press releases are archived separately.
Nonprofit running NY power grid, NYSIO, under fire for paying CEO $1.5M, 15 execs $200K
Daily News, August 03, 2010
It pays to be powerful. A little-known nonprofit that manages New York’s electric grid is under fire for the shocking salaries it pays its execs. The New York Independent System Operator, which connects power generators with the state’s utilities, paid its then-CEO almost $1.5 million in total compensation in 2007, the last year for which figures are available. At least 15 other people in the Rensselaer-based company made more than $200,000. Even the board of directors, who ...
A Magnifying Glass on Public Authorities
The New York Times: City Room, July 12, 2010
They have long operated as a sort of shadow state government: more than 700 public authorities that function largely with little public oversight. Last December, the State Legislature passed a new law aimed at making the long inscrutable agencies more transparent and reining in their spending. Now, a state office given more power to oversee the authorities has issued its first report. And the results do not seem all that encouraging — at least to New York taxpayers. New York’s ...
Richard Brodsky Scores Support of DC 37 In Attorney General Brawl
NY Daily News: Daily Politics, July 08, 2010
Westchester Assemblyman and state attorney general hopeful Richard Brodsky now carries the endorsement of DC 37, the city’s largest public employees union—a boon his campaign sees as a major boost in the coming ground war in the crowded field for the Democratic nomination. Brodsky bandw.jpg DC 37 represents 125,000 city employees and 50,000 retirees—troops who can come to the aid of Brodsky here in the five boroughs, where most of the primary vote will be ...
Subpoenaed local development officials no-show Assembly hearing
News 10 Albany, July 02, 2010
Two officials of a local economic development agency failed to appear before an Assembly committee investigating how each of them was paid about one million dollars over a two year period. Richard Brodsky, the chairman of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, had subpoenaed Jeff Bray, executive vice president of the Fulton County Economic Development Corporation, and Peter Sciocchetti, executive vice president of its sister agency, Crossroads Incubator ...
NY development officials suspended in bonus probes
Bloomberg Businessweek, July 02, 2010
In the first test of a state crackdown on alleged abuses in the shadow government of public authorities, two local economic development groups have suspended two top executives while investigating more than $1 million they received in bonuses, officials testified Monday. The presidents of the Fulton County Economic Development Corp. and affiliate Crossroads Incubator Corp. said they and other members of the groups’ two boards only recently learned about the executive bonuses and saw ...
Brodsky: Reveal bonus pay deals
Times Union, July 02, 2010
Assemblyman examines authorities in wake of Fulton County revelation Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Chairman Richard Brodsky began writing to all 500 public authorities on Wednesday because of irregularities he’s discovered at a rural county’s local development corporation. Brodsky’s letters demand information about arrangements providing for bonuses paid to top officials and other employees. The directive comes because of ...
Democratic Attorney General Candidates (Sort Of) Face Off For First Time
The Daily News, June 21, 2010
As I said, we’re here in Manhattan at City Hall’s candidate forum—that’s FORUM, not debate—for the Democratic AG candidates… stick with this post for a bit and I’ll update it as we go along… (Commenter Mary Alice is correct—I should have noted that this is the first time the candidates have all been together SINCE NYDEMCON.) After some introductory talk, we’re at the bit where everyone (in rotating alphabetical order) is talking ...
NY pols subpoena records from NY development group
Albany Times Union, June 21, 2010
New York lawmakers have subpoenaed financial records from a publicly funded economic development group as part of a probe into why its top two executives got nearly $1 million in bonuses. The state Assembly’s Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions said Saturday that it is seeking annual reports and compensation records from the Fulton County Economic Development Corp. and its for-profit affiliate, the Crossroads Incubator Corp. The committee’s chairman, ...
City Students Will Keep Free MetroCards
NBC 4 New York, June 17, 2010
$25 million program survives the budget crisis—for now Finally—some good budget news. Students will be able to keep their free MetroCards. The MTA says it has decided to abandon a proposal to eliminate the free transit passes for students. In December, the agency’s board reluctantly approved an $11 billion budget that included plans to cut service and leave children without MetroCards for free and discounted rides to public schools. It was trying to close an $800 ...
Proposal To Scrap Empire Zone Program Moves Forward
WGRZ Buffalo, June 16, 2010
Business groups were victorious this week when legislation that would require prevailing wages on public projects was scrapped, but they are voicing concern over a plan to revamp the state’s main economic-development tool, the Empire Zone program. Business groups have opposed a bill that would have forced state prevailing wage guidelines on publicly funded construction projects, and it was suddenly pulled from an Assembly committee this week. “It just wasn’t the right ...
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