By: NY1 News Ten Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees were arraigned in Downtown Manhattan today on charges of subway signal inspection fraud, but MTA officials stress that the inspection process has now been corrected and that the public was never at risk. Eight signal maintainers pleaded not guilty today and two MTA supervisors entered not-guilty pleas on Friday to charges of tampering with public documents. The supervisors — 52-year-old Oscar Magalong and 42-ye

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is in hot water after it was revealed that the state Assembly paid a secret settlement of more than $100,000 to a female intern of Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Vito Lopez after she alleged that Lopez sexually harassed her. This week, Governor Cuomo asked his Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) to launch a probe into the situation surrounding the payout. Subsequent to the date of the secret settlement, Lopez last

Published: August 30, 2012 Publication: The Villager By Lincoln Anderson Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is in hot water after it was revealed that the state Assembly paid a secret settlement of more than $100,000 to a female intern of Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Vito Lopez after she alleged that Lopez sexually harassed her. This week, Governor Cuomo asked his Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) to launch a probe into the situation surrounding the payout. Subsequent

Published: August 21, 2012 Publication: Gothamist By Garth Johnston Ten MTA employees, including two supervisors, have been arrested in the long-running faked signal inspection scandal that has been roiling the Transit Authority for two years now. The workers are being accused of collectively filing 33 false inspection reports during 2009 and 2010 under the direction of their supervisors. What they were supposed to be inspecting? Oh, just the very mechanisms that control subw

By RUSS BUETTNER Published: August 20, 2012 Eight subway signal inspectors were charged on Monday with falsifying reports to make it appear they had performed inspections that prosecutors said they had never actually done. The inspectors collectively filed 33 false inspection reports of the mechanisms that control subway traffic during 2009 and 2010 under the direction of their immediate supervisors, according to prosecutors. The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr

Published: August 20, 2012 Publication: The New York Times By Russ Buettner Eight subway signal inspectors were charged on Monday with falsifying reports to make it appear they had performed inspections that prosecutors said they had never actually done. The inspectors collectively filed 33 false inspection reports of the mechanisms that control subway traffic during 2009 and 2010 under the direction of their immediate supervisors, according to prosecutors. The Manhattan dist

Originally published: August 12, 2012 6:50 PM Updated: August 12, 2012 7:29 PM By MEGHAN E. MURPHY  meghan.murphy@cablevision.com Photo credit: Meghan E. Murphy | Arthur Schwartz, lead attorney for Advocates for Justice, speaks at the French Speaking Baptist Church in Spring Valley about the lawsuit his firm has filed on behalf of 167 plaintiffs against past and current Orthodox Jewish members of the East Ramapo school board, claiming that they siphoned public money to pay

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By Christie Smythe – Aug 9, 2012 12:01 AM E.T. Current and former board members of the East Ramapo Central School District in New York’s Rockland County were accused by parents in a lawsuit of taking money away from public education in favor of Jewish institutions. Dozens of parents alleged that the board systematically allowed children qualifying for special education to be transferred to private Jewish schools at the district’s expense, according to a complaint filed yester

Published: August 6, 2012 8:19 PM   WESTCHESTER / ROCKLAND NEWSDAY NY By MEGHAN E. MURPHY meghan.murphy@cablevision.com A nonprofit law firm said Monday that at least 170 parents and community members in the East Ramapo School District have signed on as plaintiffs in a lawsuit accusing board members and the schools superintendent of “blatant misuse of public funds.” The lawsuit will name 13 defendants, including Orthodox Jewish school board members, the board attorney and th

Published: August 1, 2012 Publication: Point of Law By Carter Wood This AP item in today’s Washington Post caught our eye, “Cate Edwards, daughter of the former presidential candidate, announces new law firm“: RALEIGH, N.C. — Cate Edwards, daughter of former presidential candidate John Edwards, has announced she is joining a new public-interest law firm with offices in New York and Washington.In a post on Twitter, the 30-year-old Edwards said her firm Advocates for Justice wi