Watchdog groups push database of deals in New York budget
A coalition including Reinvent Albany and the Citizens Budget Commission urges lawmakers to create a public database listing state subsidies to specific businesses. The proposal aims to show how tax dollars fund economic development and seeks inclusion in the state budget as lawmakers target an April 1 budget deadline.
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Albany
New York State
Citizens Budget Commission
Fiscal Policy Institute
League of Women Voters
State Capitol
New York agency used cheap photo of South African cranes
A New York advertising firm paid $300 for a Getty Images photo of seven tall South African construction cranes used in a Cuomo administration state report. Campbell Ewald NY bought the image in July 2016. stock site lists it at $575. The image appeared in Empire State Development's 2017 annual report and has since been replaced after AP findings.
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NY Report
Albany
New York City
Cuomo
New York
Associated Press
Campbell Ewald
Getty Images
Pany
Empire State Development
Andrew Cuomo
Coyote Found On Albany Museum Mezzanine
Authorities report a coyote was found on the New York State Museum outdoor mezzanine in Albany. State police troopers contained the animal on the fourth floor as staff from the Department of Environmental Conservation responded. There is no word yet on how the animal entered or reached the upper level. The museum hosts New York history and natural sciences exhibits and houses the State Archives and State Library.
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Albany
New York State Museum
Department of Environmental Conservation
Seum
New York History and Natural Sciences
State Archives and State Library
Mexican fentanyl trafficker charged in New York case
Francisco Quiroz-Zamora, 41, is charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy for flooding the New York City area with fentanyl from Mexico. An indictment cites seizures of more than 44 pounds of fentanyl at a Bronx hotel and a stash house in upper Manhattan, with an undercover operation catching him at Penn Station.
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New York
New York City
Mexico
Francisco Quiroz-Zamora
Drug Enforcement Administration
Office of Special Narcotics
Bridget Brennan
Quiroz-Zamora
Bronx
Upper Manhattan
Quiroz- Zamora
Fen
U.S
San Jose del Cabo
Baja
Arizona
California
Quiroz
Zamora
Penn Station
Manhattan
NYPD special victims unit understaffed for sex assault cases
NYC watchdog finds the NYPD Special Victims Division is chronically understaffed with 67 detectives for 5,661 suspected assaults last year while homicide squads had 101 detectives for 282 cases in 2017. The report says chronic understaffing and inexperience dilute investigations, jeopardize prosecutions, and retraumatize victims, with many cases handled by precinct detectives lacking specialized training.
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NEW York
New York Police Department
Special Victims Division
Harvey Weinstein
NYPD
Department of Investigation
DOI
Weinstein
Special Victims
Michael Osgood
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