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Guess you missed this article MooCow. Afterall, didn't you say you post both Repub and Dem indiscretions? Though I can't recall you posting anything that sheds a dark light on the Repubs to date. Maybe I missed it? If so, please repost it at your leisure
Former NY state Senate chief faces corruption charges Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:08pm EST
NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - New York state's former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was indicted on Friday by a federal grand jury on corruption charges.
The indictment charges Bruno with eight counts, including mail and wire fraud linked to his obtaining brokerage business for unions and failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars of payments and gifts.
Bruno resigned his post in July 2008 after 32 years of public service, saying it was time for him to move on. He has said that the lengthy probe of his business dealings would find he had done nothing wrong, a statement he repeated on Friday.
"I did nothing wrong. I broke no laws. We were a part-time legislature," Bruno said in a statement he read to Albany reporters.
The U.S. indictment charges that Bruno contacted people or companies with business before the legislature or state agencies, "exploiting his official position for personal compensation and enrichment, knowing and believing that his reasonably perceived ability to influence official action would, at least in part, motivate those he contacted to enter into financial relationships beneficial to his personal financial interests."
Bruno was paid $3.198 million from 1994 to 2006 by two companies and three individuals, via their firms, the indictment said. It further charged that Bruno did not fully disclose his business dealings to the legislature, nor tell some of the companies that he had failed to do so.
The charges include a misdemeanor and a felony, and if convicted, Bruno would have to forfeit any property he is charged with wrongly obtaining.
Many of the charges allege that the Republican exploited his powerful public position for personal gain.
In one instance, Bruno, who owns a horse farm in upstate New York, was paid $80,000 for a horse that "was virtually worthless," the indictment said.
Former Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a fierce rival of Bruno's, had previously alleged Bruno used state aircraft for trips that mixed business with fundraising.
But Spitzer resigned in mid-March amid a prostitution scandal, saving him from his own grand jury probe of whether releasing that information constituted a political smear campaign.
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The Cowman didn't know the GOP ruled the NY State Senate since the 60's Pagan... I remember when Cowman blamed NY's fiscal problems on the Dems til i set him straight and showed him the GOP has ruled the Senate for long time and made this mess... needless to say he stopped Mooing when I did and never replied to my post back then...
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My article on Obamas economic advisor trumps this. It is much more harmful to America than this.
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