Below you'll find everything that has been published on EPJ for the week ended Friday February 6, 2015. The hottest posts for each day are highlighted in red.
- The Fed's Charles Plosser: Raise Rates Sooner Rather Than Later
- The Basics of the Results of a Strong Swiss Franc: German Brothels are Booming
- Remember Someone's Name By Associating It With a Famous Person
- Union Calls For Adjunct Professor Pay to Quintuple
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Economist: "It is clear we are in the boom phase."
- NIGHTMARE AT THE DOCKS: A Major Labor Slowdown at West Coast Ports is Slowing Down Shipping Related Transportation Big Time
- Job Losses Start To Hit Oil Sector
- Breaking: Janet Yellen Testimony on Capitol Hill Coming
- What is Fracking?
- The Fed Money Pumping is Helping Employment Across the Board
- The Climate Activist Responds
- Radio Shack Expected to File Bankruptcy Today
- Ukraine's Currency Down 32% Today
- The Cost of Living Around the World
- How Many Women Outearn Their Husbands?
- Radio Shack's Failed Strategy to "Be Like Apple"
- Elizabeth Warren Harasses the Fed
- Feds Launch Criminal Probe Of Christie Administration
- When Obama Wasn't in Office, Krugman Slammed the Minimum Wage
Wednesday 2/4/15
- Want a High Paying Job?
- I'm Sure This is Going to Work Out Real Well
- Price Controls and the Intellectual Inconsistency of the Masses
- Hillary Clinton's Son-in-Law Bet Big — and Lost — on Greece
- Where the New Jobs Are
- Heavy Plotting in Istanbul
- SERIOUS: ECB Blocks Funding To Greek Banks
- Not Good: FCC Chairman Proposes Utility-Like Regulation for Broadband Internet
- Corporatism is Not Capitalism
- History In the Balance: Why Greece Must Repudiate Its “Banker Bailout” Debts And Exit The Euro
- Meet a New Major Emerging Player in Data Collection and Government Big Brother Programs
- Bad Stormy Weather Predictions and Impossible Climate Forecasts
- States with the Best and Worst Tax Rates for Small Businesses
- Wow....And Interest Rates Aren't Even Climbing Yet
- Five House Members and Two Senators Left Office in January, and are Already Lobbyists
- What Paul Krugman Thinks The Secret to the Universe Is
- Lazard Says 50% Greek Haircut "Reasonable"
- SF Bookstore Survived 100% Rent Increase, Great Recession & Competition from Amazon and eBooks, but Not $15 Minimum Wage
- Obama Follows Rand Paul's Lead and Wants to Spend Big on Infrastructure
- THE BIG MAC ATTACK: McDonald's, Already Struggling, Now Has to Fight the Government
- Strauss-Kahn Pimping Trial Starts
- Cookie Price Inflation Hits the Girl Scouts
- You Need to be Close to the Fed Money Spigot to Live in San Francisco
- This is Why Your Rent is Going to Go Up
- I Meet a Climate Concern Activist and Cave
- Left Wing Anti-Bankster Party Flips: Hires Bankster to Advise on Debt
- The Laffer Curve Was Drawn Up On an Elitist Cloth Napkin
- Bestselling Books at EPJ-TL in the Month of January 2015
- Starbucks Knows the Next Hot Neighborhood Before Everybody Else Does
- Becoming Professionally Estranged: From Samuelson to Friedman to Mises and Rothbard
- Uber's Great Strategic Error
- Obama has a Plan to Cut Corporate Tax Rates that Corporations are Going to Hate....
- The Federal Reserve Money Pumping Manipulated Boom (Expected Income Growth Edition)
- This is How the Fed Panics
- Ludwig von Mises' Books Lost to the Flames in Moscow Library Fire
- How Much Longer Before the U.S. Economy Cracks?
- Greece Capital Outflows
- Greg Mankiw Responds to His Hecklers; Denies Koch Connection
- Some Useful Information from the FBI
- How to Remember People's Names
- The Fed Manipulated Boom is Clearly On
- Bill Maher Says Socialism Created America's Successful Middle Class
- Super Bowl Day Chicken Consumption
Cuomo Officials Directed State Loan To Cuomo Donor At Center of Corruption Probe
ReplyDeleteSilver is alleged to have benefited personally from Litwin’s spending -- and there is no dispute that Cuomo has benefited politically from that same largesse.
Litwin contributed $1 million to Cuomo’s reelection campaign and another $500,000 to the New York Democratic Party, making him the largest political donor in the state. His money flowed through 27 subsidiaries of his firm, Glenwood Management. Those subsidiaries were also clients of the real estate law firm that paid referral fees to Silver. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has alleged that Silver "induce[d] real estate developers with business before the state" to employ the law firm, which in turn made payments to Silver.
Neither Cuomo's office nor Glenwood Management responded to International Business Times' request for comment about the governor's relationship with Litwin. But documents reviewed by IBTimes illustrate Cuomo’s role in the developer's state business.
The Cuomo-run New York State Housing Finance Agency, for instance, approved a $260 million state-supported low-interest loan in 2014 to finance Glenwood’s new luxury apartment building in midtown Manhattan. At the time the loan to Glenwood was approved, the NYHFA was headed by Cuomo appointee Bill Mulrow, an executive and registered lobbyist at Blackstone, a private equity and real estate firm. Mulrow was just appointed to be the governor’s chief of staff. According to NYHFA documents, Glenwood also has had other business with the agency.
In 2014, Cuomo shut down the Moreland Commission, an anti-corruption panel that was examining the relationship between lawmakers and the real estate industry.
http://www.ibtimes.com/cuomo-officials-directed-state-loan-cuomo-donor-center-corruption-probe-1807476