BY JOEL GROSSBARTH A Federal Appeals Court has upheld the tactic of pension forfeiture in the fight against political corruption. In United States v. Stevenson, a Bronx Assemblyman was convicted of wire fraud and bribery. He was sentenced in Federal Court to 36 months in prison. The Court also issued an order of forfeiture in […]
PRESS STATEMENT FROM ASSEMBLYMAN JAMES SKOUFIS The Environmental Facilities Corp (EFC) recently announced its second round of NYS Water Grant Program awardees. The single largest beneficiary in the Hudson Valley was the Village of Kiryas Joel which received $23.7 million for its pipeline project: $20.7 million in low-finance loans and $3 million in grants. This […]
From the State Education Department State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Monday appointed Charles Szuberla as monitor for the East Ramapo Central School District. Szuberla, a well-known former Deputy Commissioner who served the Department for 29 years before his retirement in late 2015, will lead the Department’s continuing efforts to provide enhanced communication with the East Ramapo […]
PRESS STATEMENT FROM ELLEN JAFFEE “I applaud State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia for the appointment of Charles Szuberla as East Ramapo Central School District Monitor. In making this appointment the Commissioner and (SED) recognizes and is actively responding to the critical and positive role the Monitors played on the ground during the 2015-16 school […]
PRESS RELEASE Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – East Fishkill) is calling on the Arlington Fire District Board of Commissioners to rescind their order to remove American flags flying from the back of the district’s fire trucks. “When I was on the front lines in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the first time […]
PRESS RELEASE Senator David Carlucci, Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee and Orangetown Deputy Supervisor Allan Ryff, Orangetown Town Clerk Charlotte Madigan, and CUPON leadership Hilda Moscovik and Mike Miller called upon the Department of State (DOS) to hold a public hearing to address the aggressive solicitation that has been occurring in Rockland County, however the state has not given […]