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neither care about those that work at nassau otb
Come talk with nassau otb employees
peter king is not on the joint committee on taxation
kevin leads you to think king will help you
you will be disapponted
the king mcaffrey duo are all about the photo op
you don't even get an auotograph on the photos
DAVE EVANS
Dave Evans is Channel 7 Eyewitness News' political reporter. Since arriving here in 1999, Evans has covered every major election from the mayoral campaigns of Mike Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio to the Presidential race of Hillary Clinton in 2008.
He has worked as Eyewitness News' lead reporter in every political convention since 2000 and has traveled extensively for ABC7, from covering the war in Iraq to Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent visit to Israel.
Before joining us Evans worked at WFAA-TV, the ABC station in Dallas. There he covered issues as varied as the American intervention in Haiti and the war in El Salvador.
Evans is graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He has won numerous awards including the DuPont-Columbia award for team coverage of the World Trade Center attacks. He has also been awarded the Associated Press Best Reporter in Texas as well as two Dallas Katie awards for his government reporting.
Evans has competed in many triathlons and marathons, is an avid cook and gardener, and, to the aggravation of many, still roots for his Dallas Cowboys.
if you have a position that you want to convey
pickup the phone and call the joint committee on taxation of which i am not a member
need an nvextment advisor read about the central states pension fund crooks are us
deregulation is a kevin mccaffrey fairy tale
got unused law signs from the meeting deliver them to the otb employee(s) who like you
the law might be big enough for all the signs that remained at the rear of the room at pkattedeutsche after you spoke on sunday otctober 28
the over under is 10%
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bet the peter king derby
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.
Fantasy-sports betting faces an uncertain future in New York after a judge ruled that a law permitting the online contests violated the state constitution.
In a ruling released Monday, Albany Supreme Court Justice Gerald Connolly sided with anti-gambling activists and declared the 2016 compromise measure “null and void.”
But Connolly also said that state lawmakers had the “full authority” to decriminalize daily fantasy-sports betting and that “any finding of unconstitutionality in such context would be beyond the scope of the judicial review authority.”
A lawyer for the plaintiffs in the case — who are either recovering gambling addicts or relatives of problem gamblers — claimed victory, saying fantasy-sports betting companies could no longer operate in New York because the state can’t legally regulate them.
But lawyer Neil Murray also said he would wait to see how the state reacts before taking further action against Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Gaming Commission to enforce the judge’s decision.
Leading fantasy-sports betting sites DraftKings and FanDuel remained in operation, with DraftKings lawyer David Boies saying the company “can continue to offer their services to players.”
“We are continuing to study the court’s decision invalidating the regulatory structure and are committed to working with the legislature,” he added.
Another DraftKings lawyer, Josh Schiller, also said the worst-case scenario for the company would involve “a referendum so that the state can regulate it.”
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A Cuomo spokesperson said only: “We’re reviewing the ruling.”
Katuria Smith says this picture shows Al D'Amato meeting with Judge Janet DiFiore at the Pershing Square restaurant in Manhattan on Oct. 19.Provided by Katuria Smith
Former Sen. Al D’Amato’s estranged wife claims he tried to “fix” their divorce case by dining with the state’s chief judge — and she’s got the photo to prove it.
The ex-pol huddled with Judge Janet DiFiore over a two-top at the Pershing Square restaurant in Manhattan on Oct. 19.
“My husband bragged to me and others that he used his influence with Gov. Cuomo and his since indicted Chief of Staff, Mr. Joseph Percoco, to put Janet DiFiore on the bench,” D’Amato ex Katuria Smith alleges.
“He said that she owes him. In his mind it’s time for her to pay back by helping him to win his divorce and custody case,” Smith claimed.
She released the Pershing Square photo to the press Monday — just days after a different judge overseeing her Nassau County Supreme Court case removed her lawyer for trying to improperly influence the former couple’s kids.
D’Amato’s attorney, Stephen Gassman, called the allegations “unfounded and scandalous.”
He said D’Amato and DiFiore are “old friends who met for breakfast and talked about old times.”
They did not discuss the pending divorce case, Gassman said.
A spokesman for Judge DiFiore added, “The chief judge and Al D’Amato have been personal friends going back a quarter century to when he was a senator from New York. Their relationship has nothing to do with the chief judge’s current position and to suggest that she insinuated herself in a pending matter on behalf of a friend is both outrageous and completely false.”
do not demonstrate that the. guy did anything in particular to prevent laughter for the $25,000 a month that he and park strategies were paid by nassau otb going back years and years....
some people work and others simply collect and recycle
bet the woman to win and andrew cuomo et al to join the parade......
Katuria Smith says this picture shows Al D'Amato meeting with Judge Janet DiFiore at the Pershing Square restaurant in Manhattan on Oct. 19.Provided by Katuria Smith
Former Sen. Al D’Amato’s estranged wife claims he tried to “fix” their divorce case by dining with the state’s chief judge — and she’s got the photo to prove it.
The ex-pol huddled with Judge Janet DiFiore over a two-top at the Pershing Square restaurant in Manhattan on Oct. 19.
“My husband bragged to me and others that he used his influence with Gov. Cuomo and his since indicted Chief of Staff, Mr. Joseph Percoco, to put Janet DiFiore on the bench,” D’Amato ex Katuria Smith alleges.
“He said that she owes him. In his mind it’s time for her to pay back by helping him to win his divorce and custody case,” Smith claimed.
She released the Pershing Square photo to the press Monday — just days after a different judge overseeing her Nassau County Supreme Court case removed her lawyer for trying to improperly influence the former couple’s kids.
D’Amato’s attorney, Stephen Gassman, called the allegations “unfounded and scandalous.”
He said D’Amato and DiFiore are “old friends who met for breakfast and talked about old times.”
They did not discuss the pending divorce case, Gassman said.
A spokesman for Judge DiFiore added, “The chief judge and Al D’Amato have been personal friends going back a quarter century to when he was a senator from New York. Their relationship has nothing to do with the chief judge’s current position and to suggest that she insinuated herself in a pending matter on behalf of a friend is both outrageous and completely false.”
This file June 23, 2011, booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James "Whitey" Bulger. He was convicted in Boston federal court in August 2013 of multiple murders and other crimes.
U.S. Marshals Service/AP
Updated at 4:40 p.m. ET
Convicted mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, who rose to power as a secret informant to the FBI and counted on FBI agents to help him get away with murder and extortion, was found dead in prison Tuesday. He was 89.
The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Bulger's death in a statement, saying he was found unresponsive around 8:20 a.m and pronounced dead after life-saving measures were attempted.
A law enforcement source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told WBUR that Bulger was killed in prison.
In a statement, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of West Virginia said it and the FBI will conduct an investigation into Bulger's death.
At the time of his death, Bulger was serving two consecutive life sentences. He died at Hazelton federal prison in Bruceton Mills, W.V.where he was recently transferred.
Until his trial in 2013, Bulger had avoided prison for decades, thanks to his connections to the U.S. Department of Justice and an inside tip in 1994 that he was about to be arrested. His 16-year run as a fugitive made Bulger a legend and deeply embarrassed the FBI.
He had become an old man by the time he was arrested in 2011.
'A ghostly presence'
He was one of the most feared men in the history of Boston.
"When Jim Bulger decided to kill somebody, he killed him. There was no changing his mind. And people knew it," said Kevin Weeks, who had seen his boss at work, buried some of the victims, and testified at Bulger's trial.
"People did not want to meet him," Weeks said. "People would do what was asked of them without even meeting him because they didn't want to meet him."
Bulger rose from the projects of South Boston, along with his brother William, whose parallel path to power went to politics and the presidency of the Massachusetts Senate and later the University of Massachusetts.
From boosting goods from the backs of trucks, "Whitey" Bulger graduated to bank robbery and a stint in federal prison, including Alcatraz, of which he was a proud alumnus. Back on the streets, he joined an Irish gang called Winter Hill and killed as a favor for the Mafia.
"Because of his viciousness and his utter ruthlessness, he became a legend in Boston," recalled former TV reporter Ron Gollobin. "It was almost like a ghost. A ghostly presence. Even the cops were afraid of him."
He was cunning, disciplined and low profile. But Bulger's rise from gangster to godfather was enabled and empowered by the U.S. government's war on organized crime, in which the enemy was the Mafia — the Italian-American gangsters, and not the Irish-Americans.
What Boston Mafia boss Gennaro Angiulo and his lieutenants did not know about their outside hit men was this: Bulger and his partner Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had been recruited as secret FBI informants.
"Isn't that the supreme irony?" asked Gollobin. "'Whitey' Bulger, New England's most notorious mobster ever, is a rat. And the whole time he is becoming more powerful with the help and aid of the FBI."
Credited inside the Justice Department with helping take out the top and middle tier of the local Mafia, Bulger and Flemmi turned the Federal Bureau of Investigations into the Bulger Bureau of Investigations.
"They came to him to use him as an informant," Weeks said. "And he ended up using them as his informant. He flipped the switch."
Bulger corrupted his FBI handler John Connolly, who grew up in the same Southie housing project. He corrupted Connolly's supervisor, John Morris. With cash, gifts and master manipulation, Bulger compromised a number of agents who wined and dined him in their homes and in his.
From them, Bulger gained intelligence about rival gangsters and surveillance operations by honest law enforcement agents in which he was the target. One agent gave Bulger 40 pounds of plastic explosive, according to testimony at trial. Bulger was even given the identity of people informing about him, whom he then murdered.
"There are no words to describe how horrible an act that is," observed a retired state Superior Court judge, Robert Barton. "There is nothing lower. There's nothing worse."
One of America's most wanted
From the time he went on the books as an FBI informant in 1975, Bulger commanded fear across the city without incurring so much as a misdemeanor until 1995.
A team of state police detectives and a DEA agent and a couple of federal prosecutors finally built a case against Bulger, and overcame the entrenched opposition of the FBI. But Bulger was tipped off to his coming indictment. The heads-up came from Connolly, the star FBI agent. Off went Bulger with his longtime girlfriend Teresa Stanley, but he soon brought her home and picked up his other girlfriend, Catherine Greig.
"The fact he is still a fugitive after so many years is an embarrassment to every law enforcement officer we work with," one FBI supervisor, James Burkett, acknowledged when Bulger had only been a fugitive for five years. Afterward, the local bureau tried to retract that statement.
Bulger went uncaptured for 16 years. Posters of America's Ten Most Wanted pictured Bulger alongside Osama bin Laden.
The astonishing break came in June 2011, after the FBI released a public service announcement focusing on Greig, the blond companion who was 20 years younger than Bulger. "Have you seen this woman?" the ad asked.
In short order, Bulger and Greig were captured in a rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica, Calif.
Bulger came back to a city different from the one he'd left. His brother John had done a stint in prison for lying to a grand jury when asked about "Whitey." And his brother William had been forced out of office as university president after being subpoenaed to a congressional hearing and deliberately questioned in public in regard to "Whitey's" whereabouts.
After he asserted his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, William Bulger was then given immunity and forced to answer questions in a subsequent hearing in Washington in 2003. Reacting to his assertions of failed memory and apparent evasions, congressmen accused William Bulger of lying. It did not help his cause that a leaked grand jury transcript quoted him as saying he hoped his brother would never be captured.
When "Whitey" was put on trial in 2013, William Bulger never appeared.
"The FBI sat back and didn't do a damn thing"
"There is an incredible wreckage field that stretches from the '70s to this day," observed Gollobin, the former Boston TV reporter.
Tommy Donahue's father was gunned down by Bulger as he gave a ride home to someone who was talking to the FBI.
"You know, how Whitey was able to terror everybody for 30 years. Murder, manipulate, extort and not get in trouble at all. While the FBI sat back and didn't do a damn thing about it," Donahue said.
It was a wreckage field that was deep and wide, and though Bulger may have been the executioner, it had started with a secret special relationship with the Justice Department.
Former Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Burton summarized the findings of a congressional investigation into the scandal this way: "Rogue members of the FBI, up to the highest levels, protected informants at the expense of innocent people. Informants committed murders with impunity. Killers were tipped off so they could flee without being arrested."
For that period of time, Kevin Weeks might add this epitaph, recalling that over a span of over 20 years, "Whitey" Bulger could wake up every day, look out his window on to Boston and say to himself, "I own this town."
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