Reporter and Back-Room Broker on Rudy, Green and the Mob

Okay, once more on that long-running and slightly silly argument between allies of Rudy Giuliani and Mark Green over who deserves credit for removing the mob from the gabage industry. (It’s worth settling, if only because the accomplishment is a central biographical selling point of Green’s attorney general campaign — and at least a Read More

Night of the Hunter: College in Chaos After Raab’s Hire

On the afternoon of Feb. 14, Hunter College’s first senate meeting of the year came to order in room 714W of the Hunter West Building on Lexington Avenue. As 100 or so senators–Hunter students, staff and faculty who are elected to shape the college’s academic policy–and community members filed into the wood-paneled auditorium, the tension Read More

Peter Powers Is Back: Former Deputy Mayor’s Now a Man to See

Peter J. Powers-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s boyhood friend, former top deputy mayor and perpetual close adviser-has quietly re-emerged as the man to hire for several companies seeking a sympathetic ear from City Hall.

Although Mr. Powers says he does no lobbying-he is not registered as a city lobbyist-he has been retained as a “consultant” by at Read More