Alan Hevesi
Alan Hevesi
Alan G. Hevesiis a Democratic politician who served as a New York State Assemblyman from 1971 to 1993, as New York City Comptroller from 1994 to 2001, and as New York State Comptroller from 2003 to 2006. Hevesi is originally from Queens, New York City, and is of the Jewish faith...
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I have little doubt the old NYRA management would have never even brought their suspicions forward to the attorney general. The new NYRA management did so immediately.
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The board's irresponsible behavior and failure to meet its basic duties shortchanged the taxpayers and the students of the district over and over again.
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We felt we had to be resolute after all this time where we had cooperated and agreed not to impose sanctions or even discuss them,
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The result is huge deficits and fast-growing costs for Albany water ratepayers,
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You cannot reduce to dollars and cents the losses New Yorkers have suffered from the vicious World Trade Center attack, just as there is no way to put a dollar value on the heroism and determination of our response, ... But to obtain the resources we will need to rebuild and create a better and stronger New York City, we must try to understand in dollar terms, what the attack cost our economy.
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What this study makes clear is that what the President and Congress have committed so far is just a down payment on what it will take to ensure that the terrorists don't succeed in destroying not just the two towers, but also America's and the world's financial capital.
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There's going to be the regular scrutiny and judgment of whether a particular company is worth investing in, ... We don't look at the short-term profitability. We look at the long-term integrity. That has to be part of the mix of any review.
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This is a big deal. This is serious and historic. It's an agreement that brings the banks in as partners in maximizing the potential for landlords to clean up buildings.
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Officials entered into arrangements they should have known were illegal, ... These were awful deals.
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As a vital health care provider and major employer, Westchester Medical Center is an important part of the community. But the corporation's combination of fiscal challenges, financial control weaknesses and accounting problems brought it close to the point of collapse.
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The securities industry had a very good year during 2005. The industry paid record bonuses based on exceptional revenue growth and solid profits.
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The securities industry had a very good year during 2005.
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If we had simply done business as usual, we would have been rewarding UBS,