the constitution of ny chsrges the dude with faithfully carrying the law
ny pml sec 109 is unconstitutional or vague and or indefinite and or does not apply to nassau otb
nassau otb bettors tell the dude to open up their church when great racing is run outside the state of ny every day of the year
Cuomo distances himself from
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Claude Solnik
Long Island Business News
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Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
disgraced pal after conviction
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who once called Alain Kaloyeros a genius and “New York’s secret weapon,” acted Friday like he barely knew the guy he entrusted with the corruption-ridden “Buffalo Billion” project.
Cuomo’s remarks came just a day after a federal jury in Manhattan delivered bombshell guilty verdicts in the corruption trial against Kaloyeros, who oversaw the governor’s massive $1 billion to revive struggling upstate communities.
“Can you stop people from doing stupid things? No. Can you stop people from doing venal things? No. Can you stop people from doing criminal things? No,” Cuomo told reporters during a stop in Brooklyn.
“But you can have a system in place that says if you do something wrong, we will be as aggressive as the law allows in prosecuting you.”
He also attempted to distance himself from the SUNY nano scientist.
“You could say that Dr. Kaloyeros predated me. I didn’t hire Dr. Kaloyeros. He worked for Governor Pataki. He worked for Governor Spitzer. He worked for Governor Patterson,” the governor said, when pressed about why he shouldn’t be held accountable for Kaloyeros’ conduct.
Jurors in New York City convicted Kaloyeros and three others of rigging contracts that primarily went to two developers, LPCiminelli and COR Development, whose executives were major Cuomo donors.
The governor wouldn’t say if his campaign would give back the donations it received from both firms.
“We segregated the money that they gave when we first heard about it, and we’ll talk to (federal prosecutors in Manhattan),” he said. “I want to make sure I get their input on what we should do with the funding. But we have segregated it.”
In his stunning remarks, Cuomo also attempted to shift blame to other parts of state government for failing to root out the corruption before prosecutors got involved.
“The Attorney General does sign off on contracts, so on the question of, ‘Well, who’s to blame?’ the Attorney General’s office signs off on contracts, the Inspector General’s office signs off on contracts, the SUNY board was doing oversight. I have a state inspector general who does oversight,” the governor told reporters.
But, he later admitted, “I’m responsible for everything that goes wrong,” when asked if he bore any responsibility.
Thursday’s verdict was only the latest set of corruption allegations and convictions to rock Cuomo’s administration — and the state capital.
Jurors convicted Cuomo confidant Joe Percoco in March on charges he used his position to sell access to the administration in a pair of pay-to-play schemes that netted him $300,000.
Cuomo, a self-admitted micromanager, again expressed shock at Percoco’s convictionon Friday.
“Joe Percoco is someone who was close to me. I was shocked. I was heartbroken,” the governor said. “I would never have imagined that he would have done what he did, 100 percent.”
Cuomo’s Democratic challenger, Cynthia Nixon, took to the steps of the Manhattan federal courthouse, where both the Percoco and “Buffalo Billion” verdicts were delivered, to demand the governor allow the state’s Attorney General to investigate his administration.
“It seems that every decision Cuomo makes as governor is driven by two things: the money he has been given and the more money he is hoping to get,” Nixon said. “This is the same Andrew Cuomo, who was elected governor in 2010, on a promise to clean up Albany.”
She added: “But after eight years of corruption and scandal, expecting Andrew Cuomo to clean up Albany is like expecting the bull to clean up the china shop.”
Under state law, Cuomo would be required to refer the matter to the AG before the probe could begin, Nixon’s campaign said.
But Cuomo quickly nixed the idea on Friday.
“The US Attorney handled the cases,” he said. “The way the legal system works is the AG is basically civil, and the US Attorney is criminal, and when the US Attorney is finished, it means he or she has investigated the entire matter.”
Nixon also assailed Cuomo for failing to implement many of the reforms he promised when word of the “Buffalo Billion” investigation first leaked in 2016.
“Specifically, he said he would bar campaign contributions from companies bidding for state contracts, he said he would appoint a chief procurement officer to review every contract and appoint new Inspectors General for CUNY and SUNY,” she said. “More than a year and a half later, he has done literally none of these things.”
Cuomo’s office hasn’t been the only source of corruption indictments in Albany in recent years.
Former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) was convicted again in May on charges he sold his office for $4 million in kickbacks.
Meanwhile, another federal jury in Manhattan began deliberations Friday in the retrial of former state Senate president Dean Skelos (R-Nassau County), who is accused of using his office to line up do-nothing gigs for his son, Adam.
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