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July 12, 2006
Kings County Democratic Party, Developers and Corruption
Daily Gotham
Mole333 compares the Atlantic Yards backroom dealmaking to the bribery charges filed against NY State Assemblymember Diane Gordon:
But notice that behind the deal was a deal to smooth the path for a developer to get some property outside of normal channels. Here Gordon is doing nothing different than the same old backroom deals that Pataki, Markowitz and Bloomberg do all the time with developers. I don't think Pataki, et. al. are doing it for bribes the way Gordon is, but the cronyism behind Pataki law school pal Ratner getting special consideration on all levels of his development plans isn't really any less disgusting than Gordon's blatant corruption.
Posted by lumi at July 12, 2006 7:34 AM