A conservative Democrat, apparently.
A political operative with no horse in the race says his own analysis of State Senator Carl Kruger’s district confirms what Swing State has (albeit, with slightly different numbers). Swing State says the district – located next door to Coney Island, in Southern Brooklyn – is “the second-reddest seat in Read More
“Carl wants to know where the money is.”
–Janic Fedarcyk, assistant Director-in-Charge of FBI’s NY office, quoting one of the defendants arrested today in the alleged bribery scheme involving Democratic State Senator Carl Kruger of Brooklyn.
US Attorney Preet Bharara’s case against State Senator Carl Kruger, Assemblyman William Boyland, lobbyist Richard Lipsky and five other defendants today is a run-of-the-mill bribery scheme. Two of them, actually.
In the first, Bharara alleges a friend of Kruger’s set up “a shell company in the name of Olympian [which] wasn’t engaged in anything other Read More
Brooklyn State Senator Carl Kruger surrendered to authorities only this morning, but already the talk in political circles is over who will replace him.
In several conversations with Brooklyn pols and political insiders the names that emerge most frequently are City Council member Lew Fidler and Igor Oberman, an administrative law judge who works part Read More
Unsealed this morning.
I’m reading it now, but one quick detail stood out:
On or about February 11, 2011, RICHARD LIPSKY, the defendant, met with CARL KRUGER, the defendant, inside LIPSKY’s car in the vicinity of 18th Street and Fith Avenue in Manhattan.
Not like there’s any shortage of meeting rooms or coffee shops around Read More
Are wrapped up in Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio‘s corruption case.
From Jacob Gershman:
Federal court documents from the case described a friendly relationship between Mr. Kruger and the chief executive of MediSys, a health-care network that includes Jamaica Hospital in Queens and Brookdale University hospital in Brooklyn.
The chief executive of MediSys sought the Read More
Corruption: “Prosecutors have made a cottage industry of scrutinizing members of the Senate.[Vielkind]
Corruption: State Senator Kruger and Assemblyman Boyland are expected to turn themselves in. [Daily News]
Corruption: Kruger and lobbyist Richard Lipsky are expected to turn themselves in. [NY Post]
Corruption: Kruger, Boyland, Lipsky, Kurger and two hospital executives Read More
Igor Oberman, who failed to submit signatures in his race against powerful state Senator Carl Kruger, said today that the political world has not heard the last of him.
Oberman said that he thought that the decennial reapportionment could mean new opportunities for Russian-American pols.
“There is redistricting coming up, hopefully in a couple of Read More
State Senate Finance Chair Carl Kruger is no fan of State Senator Liz Kreuger’s suggestion that that Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch, long a straight-shooting public-finance wonk, should lead budget negotiations, instead of Governor David Paterson.
(Josh Robin of NY1 reported that State Comptroller Thomas DiNapolli also thinks Ravitch should take a bigger role Read More
Late Tuesday morning, Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch stepped to the podium in the theater at Albany’s Empire State Plaza before an audience filled with legislators awaiting presentation of the governor’s expectedly grim proposed budget.
Introducing Governor Paterson, Mr. Ravitch took a minute to make a plea-as much as the terse, stoic, raspy-voiced Read More
