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Search results for "NY Fee" ...
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No title (id: 10463)
Wall Street Journal describes how an international debt collection firm used big-name lawyers and lobbyists to duck regulators and defraud costumers of hundreds of millions; shows how the former politicians and other influencial hirelings ignored many danger signs while being paid enormous fees, July 27, 1994.
Tags: NY CA TX Towers Financial Corp Steve Hoffenberg Mickey Kantor Ira Sorkin
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No title (id: 10195)
New York Newsday reveals the correlation between Wall Street firms which recieve the lucrative contracts to handle bond issues and the campaign contributions those firms make to New York City politicians in control of deciding who gets the contracts, Sept. 20, 1993.
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No title (id: 8874)
New York Newsday profiles the key player in the New York City-based pornography business, who picked up the business when the former porn king was assasinated by John Gotti, April 18, 1993.
Tags: NY Fee
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Battle over tax break program
New York Newsday finds that the richest people in New York are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks from a secret program aimed at economic development in the city's outer boroughs, with wealthy owners of Manhattan projects being the largest recipients, Dec. 17, 1991.
Tags: NY Fee CAJ
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No title (id: 7854)
New York Newsday reveals that a 1982 property tax break for Madison Square Gardens is actually an unlimited, multimillion-dollar windfall for the owners of the famous arena; the tax break, which was granted in order to keep the Knicks and Rangers in New York, has no time limit and is potentially worth more than $100 million to Paramount Communications, Feb. 3, 1991.
Tags: NY Fee
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No title (id: 7649)
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) reports on a real estate and savings and loan tycoon who conned $150 million from more than 2,200 investors, including celebrities; case is described as the biggest white-collar crime in the history of the Manhattan district attorney's office; man and 12 associates are convicted on fraud and larceny-related charges, Oct. 7, 1990.
Tags: NY Fee S&L
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No title (id: 7594)
Forbes magazine investigates Venita VanCaspel, the self-avowed "First Lady of Financial Planning," and finds that her much sought-after advice has cost her clients more than $4.5 million; she has been censured four times by the National Association of Securities Division; clients are sold millions of dollars of limited partnerships that produce big fees for the planner and big losses for the customers, June 25, 1990.
Tags: NY Morgenson PBS
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Officials Quiet Stake in Hemstead Zoning
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) tracks Hempstead Town officials' financial interests in cases approved by the zoning board; disclosure forms that would have indicated the financial connections were kept separate from other zoning records.
Tags: Politics; City government; public officials
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No title (id: 6587)
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) uncovers an old-style political machine in Nassau County; an elite group of 69 Republicans divided huge contracts, legal fees, and salaries among themselves and their friends and relatives; the newspaper used a computer to correlate official's names with payrolls, vendor records, deeds, mortgages, UCC filings, and regulatory agency files; 11 stories, Feb. 10 - Oct. 3, 1989.
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No title (id: 4401)
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) reveals the Koch administration allowed Shearson/American Express to evade minority hiring rules in the construction of a city-subsidized computer center; finds the Koch administration also relaxed minority hiring requirements for Donald Trump's Wollman ice-skating rink project and for the Times Square redevelopment, Jan. 8, 1989.