Frankie Edozien
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FAUX FUND PROBE
April 10, 2008 | 7:19amCity Comptroller Bill Thompson yesterday accused the City Council of hoodwinking the public by creating phantom organizations and announced that he will review every nonprofit contract awarded by legislators from...
PHANTOM BUCKS STOP WITH ME: QUINN
April 9, 2008 | 7:18amCouncil Speaker Christine Quinn yesterday took responsibility for the shady bookkeeping scandal that has engulfed her office after the revelations that her aides squirreled away millions in taxpayer funds by...
MIKE: HOW SLUSH CASH SLIPPED BY
April 7, 2008 | 8:05amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday that his budgetary watchdogs did not catch wind of a secret City Council fund because no money was ever actually paid to the phony entities set...
BLOOMY: I WAS FAKED OUT
April 4, 2008 | 7:27amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday that he had no idea the city budget allocated millions of dollars to phantom organizations at the request of Council Speaker Christine Quinn's office - and...
THIS $$ IS HERS FOR THE FAKING
April 3, 2008 | 7:40amCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn's office hid millions of taxpayer dollars by allocating grants to phantom organizations as a way of holding the funds to dole out political favors later...
MAVERICK IN MAYOR RACE
March 31, 2008 | 6:54amDeclaring that the "revolution starts now," City Councilman Tony Avella threw his hat into the ring to succeed Mayor Bloomberg in 2009, at a boisterous rally on the steps of...
PARKS WITH MOST CRIME
March 27, 2008 | 7:34amCentral Park, Flushing Meadows Park, Prospect Park and Riverside Park top the list of large parks that had double-digit instances of crime over the past 18 months, according to a...
SI FERRIES TO WEATHER THE STORMS
March 26, 2008 | 7:26amIn an effort to ensure that Staten Island Ferry boats sail smoothly during bad weather, city officials are ordering the installation of high-tech radar transponders that will guide the vessels...
COUNCIL'S 95G LEGAL 'GUARDIAN'
March 24, 2008 | 7:22amSpeaker Christine Quinn has quietly turned to a "white-shoe" Manhattan law firm for advice and representation in connection with a federal and local probe of the City Council's inner workings,...
COPS' RANKS PLUNGE AS HIRE GOES LOWER
March 20, 2008 | 7:38amThe number of city cops will plunge to levels not seen since the early 1990s, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly testified yesterday. Kelly told City Council members that he will follow...
HACK FROM HELL
March 18, 2008 | 8:41amA cabby who unleashed a frightening foul-mouthed tirade on a female passenger who tried to pay him with a credit card - and then drove off with her cellphone and...
A PARADE WITHOUT POLS
March 17, 2008 | 7:11amThere will be a shortage at today's St. Patrick's Day Parade - of politicians. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers will march 42 blocks up Fifth Avenue today in the...
NEW-LOOK HARLEM CLEARS A BIG HURDLE
March 11, 2008 | 5:55amAmid shouts of "Uncle Tom" and "sellout," the City Planning Commission yesterday approved a controversial rezoning plan for 125th Street that would create condos, more performing-arts space and a 21-story...
BAD BREAK HITS TRUMP SOHO HOTEL
March 10, 2008 | 7:02amThe troubled Trump SoHo condo-hotel construction project was slapped with its second stop-work order when a hoisting device broke free and shattered glass on three floors due to high winds...
SCRAPPY CITY TAKES ON RECYCLE THIEVES
March 7, 2008 | 8:10amIn the five months since penalties were toughened for stealing recyclables, the city has imposed thousands of dollars in fines and impounded many a thief's car. Last September, after officials...
GREEN PARKING
March 7, 2008 | 8:10amA Queens lawmaker is pushing to have owners of hybrid vehicles get free parking at street meters and municipal parking lots, as a way to encourage city drivers to go...
'DE$ERTED' STATEN I.
March 6, 2008 | 7:26amA Staten Island lawmaker lashed out yesterday at the Bloomberg administration, claiming it has neglected the borough when it comes to economic-development projects. "It's my belief that Staten Island has...
MAYOR ORDERS 3RD CASH SLASH
March 5, 2008 | 8:12amSix weeks after Mayor Bloomberg ordered city agencies to slash their budgets by 5 percent, he hit them yesterday with another 3 percent in cuts, worth $500 million. And that...
CITY GIVES POOR CREDIT
March 4, 2008 | 7:05amIn the Bloomberg administration's continuing effort to combat poverty, officials have identified thousands of residents eligible for some $15 million in Earned Income Tax Credits, but who never claimed the...
COOL RECEPTION FOR FROZEN SENIOR FARE
March 4, 2008 | 7:05amCommissioner of Aging Edwin Mendez-Santiago told skeptical lawmakers yesterday the frozen meals the city is considering for seniors aren't the average TV dinner. "It's not the same as when we...