The BOE and the Arrests
Question #1 Were the Voting Scanners Purchased Because They Work for New York Or Where They Because The Party Leaders and Board Commissioners Got the Most Bribe Money?
Robert Hornak who at the same time he was working at the Board of Elections was illegally getting paid by Councilman Dan Halloran through his consultant company Lexington Public Affairs. It is illegal for BOE employees to run a consultant company. Hornak is Executive director of Queens County GOP. His former boss and pal in the Queens GOP party was Vincent Tabone until he quit yesterday after getting arrested the day before
Hornak Also Worked for An Employee of the BOE Who Office Was Raided By the FBI
In April of 2012 True News reported that Hornak was working with Steven Graves who office at the BOE was raided by the FBI as part of their investigation of corruption in the purchase of the new voting machines.Hornak also worked worked with Jay Golub and with accused BOE briber Steven Graves on the Victor Babb City Council Campaign. Sources: Queens GOP Leader Facing Major Corruption Charges Resigns(NY1)
DOI Going After the Secret Lobbyist Can Start the Clean Up of Corruption at the BOE
The
city’s Board of Elections was notified two years ago that Graves
wascaught on tape soliciting a $25,000 “finder’s fee” from a company
competing for a $65 million voting machine contract in 2009. “He was
recommending the use of a particular lobbyist,” said one source. “In
exchange for that he wanted a finder’s fee.” The lobbyist, who was not
identified, was supposed to receive $250,000 a year for five years, the
source said. All DOI has to do is
expose who was the lobbyist who Graves want to receive the
$1.250,000. The chances are that lobbyist is a BOE lobbyist insider
or Queens GOP operator who knows where many of the commissioner who
run the board bodies are buried. Note the sting tapes on Graves were
made by the BOE vender not DOI
What About the Sworn Papers Filed in Court by Ragusa to Save His BOE Commissioner?
Is DOI, the DA or the AG investigating if the papers were real or forged? Robert Hornak the director of machines for the Board of Election testified in sworn statements to the court that the Queens leadership executive committee members met and voted
Nov. 1 to reappoint Stupp, and that on Nov. 3, Ragusa signed a
certificate saying so. That information was to have been mailed to the
City Clerk and City Council on Nov. 19 -- although apparently neither
envelope ever arrived. Hornak sworn statement said he mail the papers to reappoint Stupp on Nov. 19. to the executive committee.Ognibene
said the gathering at which the organization members supposedly
agreed -- having met at Dante's Caterers on Nov. 1 -- to re-nominate
Stupp would have coincided with "GOP night," which is more of a cocktail
party than a formal party proceeding. "I don’t know if there was ever a
notice" of such a meeting, Ognibene continued. "I think they looked
back and said, 'Where we all together where we can say we did this?'"
In 2007 Knew About Savino Involvement In FBI Probe of the BOE Voting Machines
But his sentence is expected to be a fraction of that in exchange for his cooperation in two ongoing probes in which he is involved New York City's Board of Elections.
A few years back, the Westchester lawyer Anthony J. Mangone,
law partner of Jay Savino, the Bronx Republican leader,
earned a cool $100,000 lobbying the board on behalf of a voting machine
company, Election Systems and Software. In 2010, the board gave the
company a $50 million contract. The next day, federal prosecutors
indicted Mr. Mangone in an unrelated bribery case. Mr. Mangone has
pleaded guilty and is talking with investigators. Mr. Savino received a
subpoena two years ago.Bronx GOP Chairman Jay Savino, and his deputy and
NYC Board of
Elections Commissioner J.C. Polanco, were hit with Federal subpoenas, as
part of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s investigation into political
corruption, in Westchester and in New York City. Here is a compilation
of stories that ran in the New York Post, The
Daily News and The Gothamist in 2010. According to the Post-”the
subpoenas were sent ‘all over the place,’ said one source.” “Another
source said Bharara began focusing on the voting-machine
contract after indicting Anthony Mangone, a politically connected
lawyer, for allegedly bribing a former Yonkers city councilwoman to
switch her vote on two development projects. Mangone, who has ties to
the Queens Republican Party, was one of several lobbyists hired by
ES&S.” Guilty Westchester attorney Anthony Mangone will help feds in two seperate probes(NYDN)Pay to Play BOE's Lemon Contract
According
to True News tipster Phil Ragusa has been paid over 50,000 from
ES&S last year in a two month period. That means that grandson
Ragusa was paid from the same voting machine vendor that his
grandfather's BOE commission approved after a battle of the lobbyists
for which machine the BOE would buy. Grandson Ragusa was paid $1800 by a
day by ES&S at the same time we was on the BOE payroll. On one 4
day pay period Grandson Ragusa was paid over $9000 for 4 days work on
and hourly rate that would have taken two weeks to reach the $9000 bill,
True News Has Also Learned
Grandson Phil Ragusa lives in Long Island and use his father address in Queens to quality for the BOE job. According to True News Tipster the address used is his father's Biagio Ragusa. Who retired in 2012 after 20 years of service at the Queens warehouse, and his son, Phil, ended up getting that job.
Organized Crime Politics
Ballot Corruption by Political Mob Bosses
The leaders of New York’s Political Mob are the City’s party leaders who exist with the Tammany Hall power control template, unchallenged and unaccountable to the voters in New York’s broken down election system. Their headquarters is the Board of Elections. Political mob bosses soldiers are campaign consultants who also operate as lobbyists and have the same relationship with the voters as Bernie Madoff had to his investors. In this war the 4th estate are enablers of the political mob bosses covering campaigns only as horse race and simply reprinting the candidate’s press releases. In this swamp culture the political party leaders have become the new gangs of New York. Protect by the DA who need them to get elected. .NY Political Parties for Sale: Ballot Corruption(True News) * Tammany’s Ballot Control Again and Again (TN) * Organized Crime Politics - Episode Two: The Rigged Election System * The DN argues against a special election, which would enable major party bosses to pick the candidates.
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More on those Arrested
Smith had no chance of winning, he likely had his sights on the Campaign Finance Board’s 6-to-1 fund matching. As a mayoral candidate, he could get a maximum match of $1,050 for each $175 donation.
Smith blew $2M in elex cash (NYP) State Sen. Malcolm Smith blew through more than $2 million in campaign cash over five years — bunking at ritzy hotels, dining at four-star restaurants and even traveling to China, campaign- finance records show. The lavish spending included a November 2011 junket to China, where Smith and his entourage forked over $1,148 to stay at the Beijing Grand and about $2,500 for other lodgings. That same month, the one-time Democratic Senate leader shelled out more than $1,000 at four of the city’s top steakhouses — Ben Benson’s, Capital Grille, Bobby Van’s and Smith & Wollensky. FBI agents yesterday served a subpoena on Smith’s Queens office as the senator stayed out of sight.*The king of Queens graft(NYP Ed) Smith has been linked to so many dubious schemes the FBI must have had an entire branch on his tail: Bid-rigging for the Aqueduct racino. Co-founding a Katrina charity that saw nearly $30,000 vanish. Diverting campaign funds for lavish personal trips and meals. Even opening (and then ruining) a Queens charter school in what appears to be a plot to boost home sales for a developer and big-time donor.
Smith and Halloran Never Google The Informer
If they Did They Would Have Detective Something Was Not Kosher
Savino Not A Bronx Resident Says Ne Needed Money to Pay the Rent
The Only Power GOP Leaders Have Now is to Make Money Off of Ballot Acess
Savino's Double Dipping Bribe
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The Arrests: Mayoral Race
Fellow Dems team up vs. Quinn at debate
Democratic mayoral hopefuls piled on front-runner Christine Quinn last
night over term limits at a candidate forum, in one of the liveliest
exchanges yet in the race. 
Lhota Demands IG for the City Council In Response for Quinn Bill for NYPD IG
Twenty new schools will open in Bronx next school year(NYDN)
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Dolan welcomes release of Milwaukee deposition documents
(NYP)MILWAUKEE — New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan says he welcomes the
upcoming release of documents related to sexual abuse lawsuits filed
against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee* Archdiocese Of Milwaukee To Release Dolan Testimony, Other Documents In Child Sex Abuse Scandal(NY1)
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NYC police operation aims to prevent car theft(WSJ)
NY1 Online: Journalist Examines Prosecutorial Misconduct In NYC
Bronx community leader working with NYPD to form peace (NYDN)
Frat house animal
(NYP) A frat boy caught on video allegedly beating and robbing a woman in a
Brooklyn subway station was easy to catch — he was wearing a hoodie with
the fraternity’s Greek letters and his nicknameOfficer Charged in Robberies of Drug Dealers(NYT)
Mentally Ill, but Insanity Plea Is Long Shot(NYT)
