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Friends of Joe Bruno Not Much Help

For a guy who was supposed to have been the most widely admired man in the Capitol Region, Joe Bruno so far hasn't gotten a lot of help from his friends. Yesterday's unhelpful testimony at the former state senate leader's fraud trial in federal ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Village Voice,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Today's Bruno Scam Lesson: No E-mails!

Here's today's lesson from the nonstop tutorial in indictment avoidance now being offered in an Albany federal courtroom where ex-state senate boss Joe Bruno is on trial for stealing his own honest services from his trusting constituents. The lesson ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Village Voice,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nicholas Confessore,  U.S. Republican Party

Bruno's Heads Up to Senators: Steer Clear of the Mailman

There was another of those rare moments of truth at yesterday's session of the Trials of Joe Bruno. From the witness stand, former top state senate legal counsel Kenneth Riddett, was asked about an April 21, 2001 memo he prepared for the senate's ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Village Voice,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Equal Opportunity Raiders Hit All NYC Dailies

Actually, as we type, raiders from the office of the Manhattan District Attorney's office are busy hauling records from the distribution offices at all of the city's major dailies, not just the old gray lady. Investigators this morning hit the Times, ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Village Voice,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Post

Bruno Aide: I Did His Shopping and He Still Treated Me Rotten

This time it wasn't just the steady jabs from the witness stand by business execs and union officials who have already told the jury in federal court how Bruno leaned on them to do business with firms that were paying him hundreds of thousands of ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Village Voice,  17 Nov 2009

Poor Dave: Here Comes Carl Kruger Again

Just when you thought you could never feel sorry for David Paterson again, along comes kooky Carl Kruger, the comic book hero of the Democratic state senate. The fire-plug shaped Brooklyn legislator has launched himself as a one-man band fighting ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Village Voice,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Carl Kruger,  Hugo Chávez

Switzerland's best-kept ski secret

Tom Robbins tackles the Schafrücken, an off-piste run above Churwalden. Photograph by Dave Blackburn Mike Onions was living the dream. Not only had he succeeded in becoming one of the handful of British ski instructors working in France, but he'd done ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tom Robbins

Morgenthau Night at the Javits Center

Being Veterans Day eve, it was fitting that past and present employees of the Manhattan District Attorney's office gathered last night to honor their outgoing boss, Robert Morgenthau, who has headed the office since 1975. Morgenthau is a veteran ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Village Voice,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Morgenthau,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Second Guilty Plea in NYC-TV Scam

A private film maker stood up in a near-deserted federal courtroom in Manhattan this morning to plead guilty to stealing tens of thousands of dollars in ad revenue that should have gone to the city. Vincent Taylor, 50, pled to a single count of wire ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Village Voice,  9 Nov 2009

Art D'Lugoff, Village Royalty, Gone Too Soon at 85

Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85. Much too young. A friend, Thomas ...

From TOM ROBBINS, Village Voice,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dave Brubeck,  Nina Simone,  John Coltrane,  Bill Evans,  Herbie Mann

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