No bid contracts in Huntington and Babylon?

McKay's wife's software company? Anyone know for sure?

Company name is Government Response or something like that.

No bid? No RFP? Anybody know?

How much $$$$ ?

Who else is in this Government Response company?

Did Petrone and Bellone trade no-bid contracts for the Independence party endorsement?

[Mrs McKay]

I is. Among others. Guess who?

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the early greaser gets all the goodies :x

I heard that Ken Baynes, the huntington independence party chairman now works for government response.....

[Attorney at Law]

Senator John Flanagan
Legislative Office Building, Room 817
Albany, New York 12247

Assemblyman Michael Fitzpatrick
Legislative Office Building, Room 544 December 25, 2006
Albany7, New York 12248
Re: Lead or Leave

Gentlemen:


I never ask for what I am entitled to. Some of your time, please. I always try to persuade first.

The State Legislature in Albany is more than dysfunctional. It is a function of corruption, criminal and legalized. In 1975, the State’s Moreland Commission revealed that nursing home patients were bng assaulted, abused and fed baloney sandwiches with a cold potato for supper. One of its reports was entitled, One Foot in the Door. It depicted widespread abuse by Senator and Assemblymen lawyers who on Monday sat in the Capitol and on Wednesday appeared as lawyers before the State’s Health and Social Services Departments on behalf of nursing home clients who were seeking Medicaid- rmbursement rate increases. The Moreland Commission recommended legislation that would declare these Departments, and others, to be regulatory state agencies such that legislators and thr law firms would be barred from appearing before them. To this day, these Departments continue as mere state agencies. Legislator-lawyers are not before state agencies because of thr legal ability but rather thr political clout. I expect you to sponsor legislation to implement the Commission’s recommendation to remedy this age-old corruption. Be sure to have proof that you have made a written request to have it voted out of committee. Boob-bait press releases dressed up as proposed legislation will fool no one anymore.

Former Assemblyman Nelson Denis’s opinion piece, Albany’s Political Club, has just appeared in the New York Sun. “Statistically,” he writes, New York State Legislators are more likely than members of the general population to be engaged in criminal activity.” He notes the Brennan Center for Justice’s report calling our legislature “the worst in the entire nation, citing 20 consecutive years of late budgets, legislative gridlock, empty chair voting and a ‘three men in a room’ style of government that rivaled the Soviet Politburo. A 2006 follow-up report from the Center found this culture unchanged. This is not surprising since the culture is entrenched, well-fed, and hidden from view.” So, Senator Flanagan and Assemblyman Fitzpatrick, can you tell me why I should bother to send you to Albany, let alone pay for your salaries, per diems, mileage, lulus (rip offs) and staff?

Assemblyman Denis writes that “it is a culture of the bipartisan Favor Bank built on state contracts, the disposition of state lands, and patronage spending by the various public authorities. Every year, Democrats and Republicans posture over thr differences, while tacitly collaborating to accommodate the permanent interests of each.” The number of public authorities in New York is close to 180 and counting. I haven’t included all the Joint Legislative Committees and Temporary State Commissions which are fluff patronage puddles filled with no-show employees. Ask former Senator Joseph Pisani whom I helped send to prison. How is the corruption masked?

“The culture is hidden,” according to Assemblyman Denis, “camouflaged by secret party conferences, unreadable budgets [a la Smithtown’s] proxy committee voting, fast roll calls, fraudulent travel vouchers, and ‘007 Accounts’ that annually funnel $200 million to family and friends of key legislators --- and in some cases the legislator’s own wallets.” This calls to mind a colleague prosecutor describing New York’s Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute. I told him that he was describing the Senate and the Assembly. Just take a look at all the indictments and federal investigations that are swirling around us with respect to Member Item money a/k/a vote buying and campaigning with taxpayer money. The stench of this practice permeates our politics. What about the central metaphor of the culture of corruption in Albany which is the “Message of Necessity?”

According to Assemblyman Denis, “the central metaphor for this culture, and its lowest point, is the Governor’s ‘message of necessity.’ Although New York’s legislators are entitled to a three-day review of any proposed legislation, the state’s constitution allows the governor to attach a message of necessity to any law he proposes, requiring legislators to vote immediately on a bill they have never seen. Created in 1894 for dealing with war, plague, catastrophe, and other emergencies, the provision today is used to ram bills through our Legislature, particularly those that require public funds. Over the past 10 years, 25% of all New York State law has been created under such ‘messages of necessity.’ With no public input, press scrutiny, or legislative review, lobbyists have turned these ‘messages’ into free lunch, with taxpayers footing the bill. If you’ve ever wondered why New York has the third-lowest bond rating in the nation and the second-highest debt per capita, the answer begins with the message of necessity.” I expect the both of you to vote “no” on any legislation coming to your desk with a message of necessity. I expect committee hearings to mark up bills and hash out differences with television cameras in the room. I expect the both of you to sponsor term limits legislation. Elected government service is supposed to be service, not politically-leveraged personal enrichment as rain makers for law firms, consulting firms – or insurance or stock brokerage firms. It is called “white graft.” Legislator-lawyers and insurance brokers top the list of offenders, followed by stock brokers.

As Senators and Assemblymen and most judges well know, one can be a good lawyer or a good politician, not both. Those who have actually been in the pit know that politician-lawyers couldn’t find thr way to the courthouse bathroom. Isn’t it amazing that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is a partner in Wtz & Luxenburg while Senator John Marchi is a partner in Jaffe, Cohen, Crystal, Mintz & Marchi? They could not “lawyer” if thr life depended on it. They are not alone in thr deficiency.

Right now the Senate and Assembly in New York are composed of men and women who, on thr best day, have shown themselves to be third rate. There is no substance to them. Prove me wrong and appropriately humble me. I welcome it. Old habits -- like illegal yacht clubs on state park property suffered by Meathead Murphys in elective office -- die hard. Make a start by taking a hard look at Joe Bruno, Majority Leader of the Senate. Let’s just say I knew him when --- as in when he and his buddies sued me and my office to stop us from going after his buddy, Senator Joe Pisani, for putting no-shows on the payroll of the Temporary State Commission on Child Welfare. We prevailed. Pisani went to prison. All Commissions and Joint Legislative Committees that are headed by members of the Senate or Assembly must be stricken from the budget. They do nothing but add to a legislator’s payroll, his clout and those no-shows who do certain things for him on the side with our money.

Senator Joe Bruno must be removed as Majority Leader of the Senate. Instead of free rides, he should take a walk. Putting aside the corruption investigation presently going on in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York, the fact remains that he is the problem in the Republican Party. Year after year, he has sold out the interests of Conservative Republicans in order to keep his majority power. There is another factor which is common to Republican Senators Bruno, Owen Johnson, Caesar Trunzo, John Marchi and John LaValle. They should be driving around in hearses. They Seasoned replacements groomed to represent Conservative Republicans should have bumped them long ago. Waiting for God takes too long. Remember Marchi telling the press that the New York Senate was “the greatest deliberative body in the Western World.” Sheldon Silver? This thief has to exit also. How much is he pulling down through Wtz & Luxenburg and other outside interests that are leveraged through his Speakership? If current Senators and Assemblyman are going up to Albany to go along and thus get along who needs them.

As for Albany District Attorney David Soares, he’s no rising star. A page of history is worth a ton of Newsday-Post-Times-News hype and sycophantic stupidity. The first no-show indictment out of the Albany DA’ Office was People v. Assemblyman Martin Ginsburg (Nassau). He was putting the wives of Newsday reporters on the Assembly payroll in return for favorable newspaper coverage. Albany County Court Judge John Clyne dismissed the indictment asserting that Ginsburg’s prosecution was selective. “Hopelessly sporadic” would have been more accurate. The next no-show indictment out of the Albany DA’s Office was People v. Assemblyman Thomas Fortune (Brooklyn). He used no-shows to fund some guy’s college tuition. Judge Clyne – so crooked they screwed him in the ground when he died – again dismissed on selective prosecution grounds. The next no-show prosecution – People v. Assemblyman Alan Hochberg (Bronx) was undertaken by this writer and another Special Assistant Attorney General under Governor Carey’s Executive Order of Superseder which divested the Albany DA’s Office of jurisdiction. Hochberg used a no-show – provided by me wearing a wire – to buy off a political opponent. He got a year in jail. The next no-show indictment was People v. Assemblyman, NYC Councilman Vincent Riccio (Brooklyn) who through Senator Joseph Pisani put no-shows on the Temporary State Commission on Child Welfare payroll to siphon off money to support a mistress. I also prosecuted him pursuant to another superseder order from Governor Carey putting the Albany DA’s Office to the side. He got a year in jail. In both Hochberg and Riccio, the Governor brought in judges from three counties distant from Albany to prevent the usual fix. Now to the present.
David Soares beat the son of hopelessly corrupt Judge Clyne in a primary so now he’s the Albany DA. So what does he do? He treats State Comptroller Alan Hevesi like royalty when he comes into the courtroom and allows him to plead guilty to a felony with no jail time. And then the newspaper editors tell us that justice was done and a message was sent. The wrong message, dopes! How absurd that Governor Spitzer, Soares and other political lights chimed in thus confirming Orwell --- “And the lie becomes the truth.” Gray’s Rule says that all public officials convicted of a crime must do some jail time in addition to any other penalty or consequence. I expect legislation that makes it much harder for public officials to steal, including but not limited to, mandatory jail time. It was politically expedient to give Hevesi a walk. Lord knows how many hobo’s and bums he could have ratted out. Did DA Soares demand cooperation against others in return for the sweetheart plea? Are newspapers so slack witted that they have not thought to ask this question? The newspapers laid down like prostitutes for thr social-political compeer --- “And the truth mocks the lie.” Governor Spitzer has said, “Day One Everything Changes.” How?

Senator Flanagan, Assemblyman Fitzpatrick, you have some thinking to do and some choices to make. Smithtown Supervisor Patrick Vecchio is presently shielding corrupt Building Department Director Robert Bonerba’s pension while trying to give the opposite impression. Bonerba has been his guy for almost 20 years. Should you take a page out of Vecchio’s book, as currently co-authored by Councilmembers Biancaniello, McCarthy, Wehrhm and the Town’s Counsel, to wit: When the folks are about to run you out of town on a rail, run faster and make it look like you’re leading the parade? Or actually start earning your keep.

Alan Hevesi’s greatest crime is not the one he was convicted of. It’s the one Albany Legislators and Governor Pataki have allowed Hevesi, and themselves, to perpetrate because it was, and is, in thr financial and personal interest to do so. Hevesi took hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from trial lawyers and money managers, many out of state. He then turned around and awarded them state business worth millions. As the New York Sun wrote, “the real scandal in Albany is not abuse of state drivers to chauffer an ailing spouse. The vending machine government in Albany concerns interest groups putting up money in the form of campaign contributions and getting money in the form of government contracts or other allocations. Mr. Hevesi is hardly the only offender. The campaign fund raising he did is actually a cleaner kind of corruption than the other kind that apparently goes on in Albany, in which interest groups pay ‘legal fees’ or ‘consulting fees’ to lawmakers who are moonlighting in second jobs.”

Bill Hammond in the Daily News writes that “the first order of business for Governor Eliot Spitzer… is to establish law and order in our crime-ridden capitol.” Who wants to disagree with his assertion that the state’s new commander-in-chief should flood the capital with ethics cops, armed to the teeth with court-issued subpoenas and wiretaps. He must force the adoption of tough campaign finance laws.

Senator Flanagan, during election time 2006, you sponsored legislation that would define and restrict the use of campaign funds for private purposes, like Senator Joe Bruno using around $2000 in campaign funds for a pool cover in his backyard. Talk about greedy and cheap! As to your proposal, Bruno said, “We’ll take a look at it.” I expect you to rntroduce this legislation and secure its passage. “Too much of the scuzzy behavior that goes on is ther legal or officially sanctioned,” says Hammond. Taking checks from lobbyists minutes before voting on thr bills? Fine. Secretly doling out money to contributors and cronies? Fine. Shamelessly gerrymandering legislative districts to assure that do-nothing incumbents get elected over and over again? Fine. It is no longer fine.

So who is going to replace Alan Hevesi as Comptroller? Senator Michael Balboni need not vote. He showed himself to be ther a scoundrel or an idiot by telling New York Magazine that November’s election acquitted Hevesi of Grand Larceny. And, I suggest, no one except thieves and the usual suspects want Speaker Sheldon Silver and his wolf pack of Assembly Democrats picking some bum that will be as blind as he is malleable. As to the print media, it should learn how to spell “Comptroller” before pontificating who Hevesi’s replacement should be. Many reporters and pundits are spelling it with an “n”, as in “Controller.”

As of now, the headlines and columns read, Parliament of Crooks, Albany Stink, Pig Out, Pork, Trough, Pigs, Thieves, Bums, you name it. Rightly or wrongly, as I am sure you both are aware, they are talking about you two and others. If you are not part of the solution after January 1st, you are the problem. Don’t think that at a later date you will come back to Smithtown or Suffolk County and run for Supervisor or County Executive without bng called to account. Take a good look at your 2005 glowing endorsements of Smithtown’ Supervisor Patrick Vecchio for example – endorsements that lent credence to the cynic’s observation that politicians are like diapers because they have to be changed and usually for the same reasons.

I expect that you both will lend unstinting support to Governor Spitzer in cleaning out Albany’s garbage. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Senator Flanagan, Assemblyman Fitzpatrick.


Very truly yours,

Lawrence N. Gray, Esq.

Cc: Hon. Eliot Spitzer
Hon. David Soares
Media

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If I need an Attorney Larry's my man 8)

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there's a scandal going on with Democrat law firms bilking the town of Huntington out of hundred's of thousands of dollars

Wenzleberg was bought off to keep his trap shut :shock:

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there's a scandal going on with Democrat law firms bilking the town of Huntington out of hundred's of thousands of dollars

Wenzleberg was bought off to keep his trap shut :shock:

isn't that what that republican woman did to buy the surrogate?

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there's a scandal going on with Democrat law firms bilking the town of Huntington out of hundred's of thousands of dollars

Wenzleberg was bought off to keep his trap shut :shock:

isn't that what that republican woman did to buy the surrogate?

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there's a scandal going on with Democrat law firms bilking the town of Huntington out of hundred's of thousands of dollars

Wenzleberg was bought off to keep his trap shut :shock:

isn't that what that republican woman did to buy the surrogate?

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Withers is playing with McGowans funny money

I bet Schaffer is too :shock: