NY governor is raising money from billionaires on promises not to raise their taxes and instead slash state funding for poor cities
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“Green” businessman is Buffalo area’s top Trump 2020 donor
Jon Williams is hailed as a green energy hero, but he is not the environmental champion his public image portrays
Wealthy Cuomo donors are poised to profit from New York State cannabis legalization
Andrew Cuomo promised to empower poor communities – but who will reap the financial benefits of cannabis legalization?
Buffalo’s Immigrant Detention Profiteers
Several prominent Buffalo real estate developers have been quietly bringing in millions of dollars from leases to the agencies executing Trump’s brutal policies at the border.
The Port Authority’s split board and Chris Christie’s downfall
The “Bridgegate” scandal has shone a spotlight on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the public authority responsible for the George Washington Bridge lane closures. Christie political appointees at the Port Authority ordered the closures, apparently as an act of political retribution; now the Daily Beast is referring to the organization as …
Business group opposing public campaign finance, Unshackle Upstate, is a big political spender
The New York anti-tax group Unshackle Upstate has made fighting the public financing of elections a major priority. Late last year the group published an opposition white paper timed to coincide with the release of preliminary findings of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption (which advocated for public campaign financing), and during …
Who’s who at Cuomo’s Buffalo fundraiser
Andrew Cuomo is in Buffalo today for a $1000-per-head fundraiser that is expected to raise $500,000 for the governor’s war chest, which at $28 million is much, much larger than that of any other gubernatorial candidate in the country. Cuomo will be met by an anti-fracking protest. …
Roundup: JPMorgan, FISA, StartUp New York, and the return of frackademia
The Eyes on the Ties blog has been popping with posts lately and addressing the latest in the news cycle. Kicking off this roundup is Kevin’s research into the negotiating table at JPMorgan as it reached a tentative $13 billion settlement with the Department of Justice. Turns out that negotiating table is little more than …
New York DEC contractor is a member of gas industry lobbying group
In a letter dated April 22, 2013, Brad Gill, the director of the Independent Oil and Gas Association (IOGA) of New York urged Governor Andrew Cuomo to “embrace the expansion of responsible natural gas development” on behalf of IOGA of New York’s members. Appended to the letter was a list of these members. Among these …
A Portrait of the Austerity Committee
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s austerity budget has won the backing of a coalition of business interests named the “Committee to Save New York,” which LittleSis analysts have been researching as part of our Cuomo Watch investigation. Together, we have put together the beginnings of a portrait of the Committee to Save New York, class of 2011. …