Crime Waves: Weegee and Peanuts

Biurny Gonzalez pleaded guilty yesterday to perjuring herself in a 2006 rape trial–prosecutors write that she had a “facile ability to look one in the eye and offer up a falsehood,” according to the Post.

Apparently, Gonzalez was fighting with her friends on the night of the attack (“yelling and hitting Read More

Crime Waves: We Will Never Accept Unfairness

Former State Senate President Joseph Bruno goes to trial today. The federal anticorruption statute under which he has been indicted “makes it a crime to deprive citizens of ‘honest services’ from their elected officials,” The Times explains, and could have a broad impact on New York politics:

The indictment against Mr. Bruno is so sweeping, Read More

Bruno’s Complaint

Attorneys for Joe Bruno are accusing federal investigators of intimidating” and “harassing” family, friends and business associates of the former state senate majority leader, who has been under investigation for a number of years.

Specifically, Bruno attorney Andrew Baxter is calling into question subpoenas issued to Bruno’s daughter and another to Bruno’s current business spokesman, Read More

Report: Joe Bruno in Car Accident

Former Republican State Senator Joe Bruno was involved in an automobile accident and transported to an emergency medical facility in Colonie, according to a dispatch from the Breaking News Network.
The dispatch, forwarded to me by a reader, said the New York State Police are “investigating a motor vehicle crash injuring [Bruno],” who was Read More

Report: Joe Bruno in Car Accident

Former Republican State Senator Joe Bruno was involved in an automobile accident and transported to an emergency medical facility in Colonie, according to a dispatch from the Breaking News Network.

The dispatch, forwarded to me by a reader, said the New York State Police are “investigating a motor vehicle crash injuring [Bruno],” who Read More

Joe Bruno Marketing Space for Eliot Spitzer

Joe Bruno is marketing space in Eliot Spitzer’s Crown Building.

No, silly, not that Joe Bruno!

Still, the irony is rich. A real estate broker who just happens to have the same name as the former governor’s arch-nemesis, is the sublease agent for space on the eighth floor of the Crown Building at 730 Read More

Bruno Mum on Plans for the Rest of the Term

Joe Bruno did not commit to staying in office for the remainder of his term when he addressed reporters in Albany just now, instead saying that he’ll speak with his conference later today and plans to take things one day at a time.

Speaking in his third floor office in the capitol building, Bruno Read More

Bloomberg: Congestion Pricing Only Part of PlaNYC

Delivering the keynote to Newsweek’s Second Annual Global Environmental Leadership, the day after the pillar of his sustainability plan failed, Michael Bloomberg briefly chastised the New York State Assembly before reminding the conference that there are more components to PlaNYC than congestion pricing.

Here’s an excerpt:

“But unfortunately, as most of you know, Read More