Topic: Susan Lerner

Albany pols rack up $530K travel tab

Even when they're on summer break, state lawmakers cost taxpayers a bundle.. . Senate and Assembly members claimed more than $527,544 in travel...

Don't divide immigrant nabes: Advocates

State officials must draw new district lines that give growing Queens immigrant groups a stronger voice, advocates demanded this week during a...

Gov donors rake in nonprofit cash

Gov. Cuomo's probe of excessive executive salaries at nonprofit groups puts him on a collision course with some of his donors.. . Cuomo recently...

Brooklyn pol's dough for sibling's biz

Brooklyn Sen. Martin Golden likes to keep his campaign spending all in the family.. . The veteran Republican lawmaker spent just under $40,000 in...

Stringer rails pork but helps friends

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer grabbed headlines last week by slamming the pork spending of city lawmakers - even though he's one of...
The powerful head of the state Senate Finance Committee is pushing a bill that would increase medical malpractice legal fees for trial lawyers just...

In New York state, corruption never dies

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Candidates for New York state attorney general, who have vowed stern enforcement of white collar crime, are also targeting corrupt politicians -- a popular issue with voters.At least a dozen city and state politicians have been implicated in corruption ...

Common Cause on Golisano's Gambit

I just spoke with Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, about Tom Golisanos decision to seed a PAC with $5 million of his own money and his lawyers assertion that Golisano can spend whatever he wants in state ...