Catching up
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Here’s a couple of stories from the weekend that might be of interest to politics watchers.
First off, a story that’s being featured prominently on our Web page today, from reporters Jon Bandler and Jorge FitzGibbon:
MOUNT VERNON – A political committee run by city Democratic Party chairwoman Serapher Conn-Halevi paid her and her daughter $20,000 last year, campaign financial disclosure records show.
The money accounts for nearly 60 percent of all the cash spent by Conn-Halevi’s committee, the Chairwoman’s Trust, since July 2006 – while only 3 percent went to political campaigns or charitable causes, the records show.
Full story here.
Then there’s Len Maniace’s Sunday report on the hidden costs of development to Yonkers taxpayers:
YONKERS – Previously undisclosed losses from stumbling efforts to create a technology center from a one-time carpet factory will cost the Yonkers city government $4 million.
The losses for the n-Valley Technology Center on Nepperhan Avenue were detailed in a closing financial statement for Ridge Hill Development Corporation recently obtained by The Journal News. The report provides a glimpse at how the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency turned to the corporation, one of its offspring nonprofit development agencies, to help keep the faltering technology center plan afloat.
Read that here.
Finally, on a lighter note, Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick had his hair sheared off to raise money to fight children’s cancer. Here’s the before picture; sadly, our photo archives don’t have the “after.”
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