The use of "grants" by AG Spitzer to influence the voting decisions around NY State is one that deserves serious investigation. Efforts via the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL #06079) have not been able to secure the list of over 175 grant recipients that Spitzer has had a direct hand in determining have remained unaddressed by his office which controlled the process. He has used the "proceeds" from his investigation concession paymenets to fund these grants.
The nearly $52K penalty the Spitzer family trust paid to the IRS in 2004 for not making obligatory grants, as required by law, was one of the same "violation" he used to takeover the Black United Fund of New York, force the resignation of the board and replace them with Black Republicans from Nassau County, and cause the simultanious dismissal of the president and vice president -without charges, any evaluations, any turnover or transition, any opportunity to take or make corrective action plans. All this without any warranted basis for the actions of his appointed board.
The heavy and disciminatroy hand of AG Spitzer was even mentioned by Harvy Lipman in the 2/23/2006 issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy in the article, "Penalties on Jewish Group Called Overly Lenient," in reference to the investigation and settlement of mismanagement and financial transaction violations of the World Jewish Congress. The artticle referenced the disparate actions Spitzer took in relation to those taken with BUFNY and the Grand Mariner Foundation.
The heavy influence of the Jewsish community in New York politics was mentioned as an influencing factor in the actions Spitzer took against the Jewish organization.
The use of "grants" by AG Spitzer to influence the voting decisions around NY State is one that deserves serious investigation. Efforts via the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL #06079) have not been able to secure the list of over 175 grant recipients that Spitzer has had a direct hand in determining have remained unaddressed by his office which controlled the process. He has used the "proceeds" from his investigation concession paymenets to fund these grants.
The nearly $52K penalty the Spitzer family trust paid to the IRS in 2004 for not making obligatory grants, as required by law, was one of the same "violation" he used to takeover the Black United Fund of New York, force the resignation of the board and replace them with Black Republicans from Nassau County, and cause the simultanious dismissal of the president and vice president -without charges, any evaluations, any turnover or transition, any opportunity to take or make corrective action plans. All this without any warranted basis for the actions of his appointed board.
The heavy and disciminatroy hand of AG Spitzer was even mentioned by Harvy Lipman in the 2/23/2006 issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy in the article, "Penalties on Jewish Group Called Overly Lenient," in reference to the investigation and settlement of mismanagement and financial transaction violations of the World Jewish Congress. The artticle referenced the disparate actions Spitzer took in relation to those taken with BUFNY and the Grand Mariner Foundation.
The heavy influence of the Jewsish community in New York politics was mentioned as an influencing factor in the actions Spitzer took against the Jewish organization.