Month: November 2009

Pension fund business comes up in Bruno trial

The Post reports on some developments in the trial of former New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno. Mark Congi, who was also Laborers Local 91’s assistant business agent until his 2002 indictment for racketeering, testified Monday at Bruno’s federal corruption trial. He said that business agent Michael Quarcini ran both the union and the $50 […]

New Jersey inaugural fundraising

How are inaugurations of new governors funded in a state with some of the toughest pay to play rules?  That’s the topic of this NJ.com article. Because of a quirk in state law, it’s up to Christie to decide whether to use the same rules that are in New Jersey’s pay-to-play law, which bars big-money […]