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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:41 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 21 April 2010 08:28
From the Business Review:
New York state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. (D-Bronx) slammed a lawsuit filed against him by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as “political payback.”
Espada vowed he would remain majority leader, one of the Senate’s most powerful positions. Doing so would preserve Democrats’ slim 32-30 majority in the chamber.
In addition, Espada likened Cuomo to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, and claimed Cuomo supported the political gridlock Espada engineered in the summer of 2009.
On April 20, Cuomo accused Espada of stealing $14 million of taxpayer money from his nonprofit health care organization, known as Soundview, and using it for himself, his family and his political campaigns.
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