Crooks and more crooks.....
Posted: Apr 20, 2010
The scandal that erupted in the office of former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi is a study in contrasts: High flying private equity titans, allegedly caught with their hands in the pockets of teachers, clerks, and sanitation workers. Top politicians whose salaries are stuck in the low six-figures, suddenly in control of pots of money running into the twelve-figures. And top
Democratic donors who cast themselves as high-minded, disinterested dabblers in the public good are revealed to have quite a bit of interest after all.
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The most severe public damage, though, may be to the most glamorous of Democratic donors, who cast themselves for the last decade as public-spirited figures acting against their own self-interest to support Democratic policies that would cost them more in taxes.
Three of New York's highest-profile Democratic private equity titans have been caught up, to varying degrees, in the Hevesi scandal.
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