Tag Archive for corruption

Remember when No One was Above the Law?

It’s a way for a police officer to vouch for another person, that type of recommendation shouldn’t be available to the highest bidder.

-New York City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr.
From a recent story on the sale of so called “get out of jail free cards.”

I instead agree with Councilman Garodnick who said that no one should be able to use a friend of the police card to get out of trouble with the law, including other police officers. With the stories and videos of the NYPD during the occupy protests and the insanity of stop and frisk, this is just another example of the lack of concern for police corruption in NYC and countrywide.

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Put Blame Where Blame Is Due

Hurricane Sandy Building Collapse 2012 NYC 3793

Photo from Brechtbug on Flickr

Here’s my rant about this building that we’ve all seen and heard so much of; I find it irresponsible to put the blame on Sandy for this. It needs to go deeper than that, it seems obvious to me an incompetent, possibly corrupt, builder/contractor needs to be held accountable.

The facade of a building doesn’t just fall off. And by all means should it stand up to high wind and rain if up to legal code. Look at the buildings on either side of it, how is it the check cashing place’s awnings and vertical sign are still in tack? All the window units for air conditioning? The restaurant canopy?

It just makes me sad that this has gotten so much face time as an example of Sandy’s destruction when there is so, so, so much worse, still, and so much more directly as a result of the storm.

The city needs to investigate and prosecute the rightful party. There are more than enough slumlords in nyc and will continue to be unless they are held liable.

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The Hill vs Wall Street

After seeing how little it takes to buy off politicians vs how much is to be made in finance, I’ve come to the conclusion that if you’re inept at corruption you work on The Hill, if you excel at corruption you work on Wall Street.
What I’m still trying to figure out is when people are sent from Wall Street to The Hill. Is it a demotion, a punishment, a vacation, or just taking for team?

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