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State Senator Carl Kruger resigned Tuesday, Dec. 20, just before pleading guilty to four counts of taking bribes from a hospital executive and a lobbyist for favorable treatment by the legislature and state officials.
Kruger, 62, and co-defendant Dr. Michael Turano, 50, accepted nearly half a million dollars in bribes, prosecutors said.
"Instead of serving the people who elected him, Senator Kruger monetized his public office and served himself," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharia said in a statement.
Turano, a gynecologist who shares a mansion in Mill Basin with his mother and with Kruger, also pleaded guilty.
"I accept responsibility for my actions and am truly sorry for my conduct," Kruger, who wiped tears from his eyes, told Manhattan Federal Court Judge Jed Rackoff.
Kruger faces nine to 11 years in jail when he's sentenced in April, along with some $900,000 in fines and restitution.…
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Coney Island planners, business owners and residents are mulling ways to make Coney Island buildings attract new visitors while maintaining CI’s historic character, popular with traditionalists and loyalists.
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:31
Rally planned at 'neo-Nazi headquarters'
After three cars were burned and swastikas painted along Ocean Parkway in heavily Jewish Midwood, the Jewish Defense Organization is organizing a rally at what they call a neo-Nazi headquarters at an apartment on West Street off the parkway.The local chapter of the JDO has called for the demonstration at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20 at the apartment building. "Stop the Nazis!" the JDO urges in a flyer distributed in Jewish neighborhoods. "Neo-Nazis have already shot and bombed synagogues and Jews all over!"The JDO says Allen Rouse, whom it says is a neo-Nazi and who describes himself as calling for white power, maintains a neo-Nazi headquarters at the apartment and webcasts white-supremast propoganda from there.Michael Goldstein, a JDO spokesman, said that Rouse lives on Long Island and uses the apartment for his operations; however, Sarah Sardar, who with her husband Albert owns the apartment and lives in the building, told…
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 05:13
Midwood residents ask police for help after car-burnings
FROM NY 1 Midwood residents gathered at Congregation Ohel Moshe in Midwood on Monday night, Nov. 14 with questions for the police department on whether they were safe and what they could do to help the investigation.
On Friday morning, three cars were torched on Ocean Parkway. Anti-Semitic graffiti was found on and around the cars, including the words "SS" and "KKK."
"I'm very shocked to see a wild, anti-Semitic, violent situation like this occur," said a neighborhood resident.
One man who attended the meeting says he was a Holocaust survivor and the incident left him shaken.
"It was like a knife went into my heart, that it could happen to America," he said.
The meeting was organized by City Councilman David Greenfield, who said the goal is to make sure everyone is involved in the search for suspects.
"By bringing everybody together with representatives from the mayor's office, the…
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Thursday, 10 November 2011 01:52
Architects of collapsed condo worked 'on the fringe'
FROM THE DAILY NEWS The architects of a Brighton Beach condo under construction that collapsed on Tuesday, Nov. 8 — killing a worker — have a troubled history of flouting regulations, the Daily News has learned.
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Tuesday, 01 November 2011 22:58
No cement-walk for Coney -- for now
By JESSIE KISSINGER The iconic Coney Island boardwalk won’t be turned into a cement walk – at least not yet.The Public Design Commission has rejected the city Parks Department’s preliminary proposal to renovate a stretch of the boardwalk between 15th Street and Coney Island Avenue.The proposal was part of the city’s ongoing renovation of the historic walkway which started in February 2010 – plans that were first revealed by Bay Currents at the time. The plan seemed attractive on paper, with a “carriage lane”— actually a 12-foot strip of concrete — sided with recycled plastic lumber decking and seaside grasses and ground peppers. But residents familiar with concrete already placed on other sections of the boardwalk were not impressed.“Why do you want to put a garage-way on Coney Island?” said Norman Finklestein, who’s lived in the neighborhood since 1949. “This place is a landmark,” said his brother Harry…
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