Thursday, September 11, 2008

New York Lawmaker Is Indicted

Overpaid Government Worker reports on this New York Sun article:
Federal investigators are accusing a state assemblyman of lobbying his own colleagues in exchange for more than $500,000, raising concerns of a potentially wider corruption problem in Albany.

Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio of Queens is the eighth state lawmaker from New York City to be indicted or sentenced for abusing his office since 2003.