while the lobbyists of nassau otb collect the money for doing no work
bejamin brafman may hedge his bets on attorney fees with an almost certain stomping of the state of ny for abridging the rights of women who work and or bet at nassau otb secured by ny const art 1 sec 3
you do not need an oxford comma when eric schneidermand andrew cuomo
do not like your kinf
help us ben
eric scheiderman covers the no work collection of park srategies and the other nassau otb lobbyists
let the women of ny celebrate frank stronach day as they see fit
frank stronach day is dundsy april 1 2018
see the equibase live racing calendar for that day
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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.
Sale of Harvey Weinstein's company up in air after lawsuit
NEW YORK — A proposed sale of The Weinstein Co. is in question after New York's attorney general filed a lawsuit saying that any deal would have to include assurances of financial compensation for women harassed or abused by co-founder Harvey Weinstein.
"Any sale of The Weinstein Company must ensure that victims will be compensated, employees will be protected going forward, and that neither perpetrators nor enables will be unjustly enriched," Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a civil lawsuit filed Sunday.
The suit, filed in a state court, accused the movie producer of "repeatedly and persistently" sexually harassing female workers, in violation of state employment and civil rights law. It said the company had an atmosphere of "pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination."
The attorney general's office said the lawsuit was filed on Sunday partly due to reports of the company's imminent sale to an investment group led by Maria Contreras-Sweet, who was the chief administrator of the Small Business Administration under President Barack Obama.
Schneiderman launched a probe of The Weinstein Co. in October after The New York Times and The New Yorker reported on allegations by multiple actresses and models who said Weinstein coerced them into unwanted sex. Some women have accused Weinstein of raping them.
Harvey Weinstein has repeatedly denied all accusations of nonconsensual sex. His New York attorney, Ben Brafman, released a statement Sunday evening saying many of the allegations against his client are "without merit."
"While Mr. Weinstein's behavior was not without fault, there certainly was no criminality, and at the end of the inquiry it will be clear that Harvey Weinstein promoted more women to key executive positions than any other industry leader and there was zero discrimination at either Miramax or TWC," Brafman said.
Weinstein was fired by the film company last year. He and his brother, Robert, still own a large chunk of the company.
In his lawsuit, Schneiderman said that in addition to the sexual harassment and alleged assaults that have captured public attention, Weinstein's employees had to endure verbal threats such as, "I will kill you, I will kill your family, and "you don't know what I can do."
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