So the state Senate majority's Democratic leaders are resisting subpoenas from the inspector general regarding the aborted AEG deal to install video lottery terminals at the Aqueduct horse racing track in Queens. This raises obvious questions about what they have to hide.
Might whatever it is bear some resemblance to what turned Republican Joe Bruno, the former Senate majority leader, into a felon? He was convicted of taking money from a businessman, Jared Abbruzzese, to whose company he had steered state grants, and who was trying to get a piece of the franchise to run horse racing in New York. Meanwhile, almost nine years after they were authorized, the state is no further along in actually getting the VLTs installed, and has lost many hundred million dollars of revenue as a result. Dysfunctional is far too kind a word to apply to New York state government.
Update: Their pay-to-play is pretty unvarnished, and expanding. "Stench of Senate slime," editorializes The Daily News.
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