Longtime Practice of City Council Financing Lands on Speaker’s Shoulders
May 12, 2008
In the widening scandal that has revealed the peculiar accounting methods of the New York City Council, a harsh light has been cast on Christine C. Quinn, the Council speaker, who is being asked to answer for a system not of her own making.
Defined by phrases like “phantom organizations” and “slush funds,” the tale of [...]
Christine Quinn’s Office Probed over Bogus Grant Groups
April 3, 2008
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office hid millions of taxpayer dollars by allocating grants to phantom organizations as a way of holding the funds to dole out political favors later - bogus bookkeeping that is the subject of city and federal probes, The Post has learned.
Among the dozens of fabricated groups that were slated to [...]




