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the dealings of the trustees , union and employer (YRC) of the teamsters local 707 pension plan with teamsters local 707 president and trustee kevin mcaffrey
New York GOP Rep. Chris Collins has resigned his seat effective Monday, according to a Republican source, one day ahead of an expected guilty plea to federal insider trading charges.
The 69-year-old Collins, one of the first GOP lawmakers to back President Donald Trump before the 2016 election, is scheduled to make an appearance in federal court Tuesday in Manhattan. Collins will plead guilty to insider trading charges related to his investment in an Australian biotech firm, according to court documents and GOP sources.
Cameron Collins, the congressman's son, and another defendant, Stephen Zarsky, are also expected to plead guilty later this week, one GOP source said.
Neither Collins' office nor his lead attorney responded to requests for comment at press time.
Collins' upstate New York district is overwhelmingly Republican and there is little doubt the GOP can keep control of that seat following his resignation.
Collins, who was able to win reelection last fall despite being under indictment, was charged in August 2018 with securities fraud, wire fraud and making false statements to FBI agents investigating the case.
Collins was the largest investor and a member of the board of directors for Innate Immunotherapeutics, an Australian biotech company. He was charged with passing inside information on the company to his son and Zarsky, father of Cameron Collins' fiancee. Using that information, Cameron Collins and Zarsky were able to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses after a drug trial failed, authorities say.
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At that time, the Securities and Exchange Commission settled with Lauren Zarsky, Cameron Collins' fiancee, and her mother, Dorothy Zarsky, over allegations of insider trading. The pair neither admitted nor denied, but they agreed to give up "ill-gotten gains" and pay fines, the SEC said.
Collins was a successful business executive who first ran for Congress in 1998 but lost. In 2006, he was elected Erie County executive despite the heavy Democratic slant to the county. Collins helped remake the county government, including dramatically slashing debt. Collins considered a run for New York governor in 2010, yet then backed off. Collins then won a seat in Congress in 2012.
Collins originally supported former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during the 2016 presidential campaign, but threw his support to Trump after Bush's campaign stalled out. Collins was the first House Republican to back Trump.
"We need a chief executive, not a chief politician," Collins told CNN in Feb. 2016. "Donald Trump is the individual as president that can lead this country and reclaim our great state and provide a bright future for our children."
Following Trump's victory, Collins' national profile soared, and he became an unofficial Trump spokesmen and chief defender on Capitol Hill. Other GOP lawmakers used him as a conduit to contact the new president. And before Paul Ryan was reelected speaker in 2016, he asked Collins to second his nomination.
In 2016, Collins — who had made tens of millions of dollars during his business career — became the biggest investor in Innate Immunotherapeutics, which was developing a potential treatment for multiple sclerosis. His son and daughter were also major stockholders.
Collins pitched the stock to everyone he could, including fellow members of Congress and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. He was even overheard by reporters in Jan. 2017 bragging on the phone "Do you know how many millionaires I've made?" But Innate's stock price collapsed in June 2017 after the MS drug trial failed.
Collins allegedly told his son about the drug trial results months earlier, allowing the younger Collins, Zarsky and other family members to dump their shares before the news became public, prosecutors later charged. Collins himself did not sell his shares.
The FBI and SEC, however, began looking into the case, including interviewing Collins and his family. The lawmaker denied sharing any inside information.
Collins and the others were indicted in Aug. 2018. Collins stepped down from his seat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, but he didn't resign from office. GOP leaders didn't pressure him to leave either. While Collins initially said he wouldn't run for reelection, he later changed his mind and put $500,000 of his own money into the campaign. Collins won reelection by one point in the heavily Republican district.
1 al d'amatos payment by nassau otb, 25k per month is a scam
2 otb's failure to challenge the constitutionality of ny pml sec 109 and or its applicability to nassau otb is a scam. seejerry bosert's artice from 2003
3 failing to offer a leave tranfer plan like the federal opm shows a lack of competence, character and more
4 failure to offer the opportunity to participate in the ny state 457 plan toth option eg because the payroll system cannot handle it is a crime
laura gillen like christopher carini talks alot of trash and little of substance
plenty of nassau otb cashiers in the town of hempstead have not and will not forget joseph g cairo endorsing kevin mccaffrey at a meeting of teamsters local 858 at st marys church on rushmore avenue in carle place
save the postage, act and speak and listen to nassautb employees and bettors in person.
List of contributors whose name is like CARINI For Transaction Date Range: [01-APR-19 to 27-SEP-19] Contribution is greater than or equal to [$ 1 ] And less than or equal to [$ 1000] Record are sorted by [ NAME ] Note that Corporation Names, Committee Names, Partnership Names etc. appear in alpha order first followed by Individual Names in alpha order by Last Name.
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CARINI, CHRISTOPHE J 3768 FRANKLIN AVENUE SEAFORD, NY 11783
“I am eager to continue my work on behalf of neighbors in the 5th Councilmanic District,” Carini said. “And, I am excited to join Don Clavin, Hempstead Town’s next Supervisor, in reducing government spending and taxes, slashing patronage and repairing the town’s roadway system.” carini studies the testimony of mr dingh during the mangano trial as to how singh was told to call arthur walsh and obtained a space at the carle place branch of nassau otb thst had previously been occuppied by piccolos thst legt for reasons and circustances unknown to nassau otb employees. no one is nassau county has given piccolos a bad review. no tenant no rent a scam if you cannot keep a rent paying italian restaurant at nassau otb there is domething wrong CARINI MAY WRITE HIS RESTAURANT REVIEW OF PICCOLOS AND CAIRO's handling of its otb operation .
“The story of him putting the Sikh imperative of ‘seva’ — selfless service — on display as a peacekeeper went worldwide,” the mayor said. “In that role he was a walking lesson in tolerance and understanding, which are values Houstonians uphold here in the nation’s most diverse big city.” see ny const art 1 sec 3 and note that even pope francis says the irthodox curch shall be treated with respect
OPEN ON 1ST PALM SUNDAY, OTB RAKES IN $2M
New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday. Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so. "We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business.
" Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida. While in the past NYCOTB has respected the law and shut down on Palm Sunday, it took a chance this time because its business is down. "With the weather being the way it's been our handle has been off significantly," Casey said. "Our lawyers felt from their point of view that we could open (yesterday
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" The law says race tracks can't open. It doesn't mention OTBs. "I respect the Racing and Wagering Board and I have the utmost respect for chairman Michael Hoblock but I felt we're right on this one," Casey said. The NYSRWB didn't return phone calls yesterday but said on Saturday it would meet this week to discuss fines and penalties it can impose on NYCOTB. "This isn't personal," Casey said. "I just didn't agree with the board's interpretation.
" Casey also said NYCOTB may open on Easter Sunday.
the Andrew cuomo goon squad looses to the eoman at our expense
Wandering Dago, Inc. v. Destito
by Justia
WD filed suit against OGS, alleging that defendants violated its rights under the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, and the New York State Constitution by denying WD's applications to participate as a food truck vendor in the Lunch Program based on its ethnic-slur branding. The Second Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant, holding that defendants' action violated WD's equal protection rights and its rights under the New York State Constitution. In this case, it was undisputed that defendants denied WD's applications solely because of its ethnic-slur branding. In Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), the Supreme Court clarified that this action amounted to viewpoint discrimination and, if not government speech or otherwise protected, was prohibited by the First Amendment. The court rejected defendants' argument that their actions were unobjectionable because they were either part of OGS's government speech or permissible regulation of a government contractor's speech. View "Wandering Dago, Inc. v. Destito" on Justia Law
