Casey Seiler
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Albany, NY, United States
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Kingston companies will pay $240K to settle sexual harassment claims
Multiple women alleged Steve Aaron subjected them to bullying as well as offensive behavior and comments. → Read More
Seiler: On a billboard over I-90, the child who didn't die
High school students designed a heartbreaking billboard about a 10-month-old who died in a drunk-driving accident. The death was invented. Does it matter? → Read More
Trump sues attorney general in attempt to stymie probe of family business
Former President Donald Trump and his family business, The Trump Organization, has filed... → Read More
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Protesters, police clash at Albany police station
ALBANY — Protesters and police are in a standoff behind South Station on Morton... → Read More
Protesters, police in standoff behind Albany's South Station
ALBANY — Protesters and police are in a standoff behind South Station on Morton... → Read More
Percoco 'filled with remorse and regret'
ALBANY - Former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco wrote in a letter to a federal judge that he is "truly sorry" for the actions that led to his conviction in March on corruption charges. Percoco wrote in the letter sent Thursday to U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni that "I lay awake at night filled not only with the fear of what is to come for me, or the pain or embarrassment that I have brought upon… → Read More
Is it legal for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to offer all you can drink for $5? (update)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign has planned a fundraiser for next Wednesday at the elegant Hudson Terrace event space on West 46th Street in Manhattan. The invitation for the “Summer Happy… → Read More
Gov. Cuomo's former aide Percoco guilty on three counts
ALBANY - In a split verdict, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco was found guilty of three corruption counts on Tuesday, two months after the start of a federal trial that cast a cold light on pay-to-play culture in state government. The governor's former executive deputy secretary - a man Cuomo once called "my father's third son and my brother" - was found guilty of honest services… → Read More
Jury in Percoco trial feeling the strain
NEW YORK - Weary after almost two months of duty, a handful of jurors in the corruption trial of former gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco and three businessmen signaled they were at an impasse. A federal judge gave them a snow day, but told them to keep at it. → Read More
Gillibrand 'embarrassed' by previous positions
ALBANY - In a "60 Minutes" profile that aired Sunday evening, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's tried to explain the significant leftward shifts in her positions on gun control and immigration that followed her 2009 appointment to the Senate. → Read More
Howe arrested after admitting to bilking credit card company
ALBANY - Former lobbyist and Albany insider Todd Howe was arrested Thursday night, just hours after the government's star witness in the trial of Joe Percoco and three business executives admitted under cross-examination that he had tried to bilk his credit card company out of the cost of a night's stay at the Waldorf Hotel - a crime that came after Howe signed a cooperation agreement with… → Read More
Search for your legislator's potential financial conflicts
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news organization, gathered financial disclosure documents from nearly 7,000 legislators nationwide, including all 213 state legislators from New York. The center put the disclosure statements into a searchable web tool that allows visitors to search by legislator, employers, and keywords. → Read More
Cuomo calls for accelerated nomination of Abdus-Salaam’s successor
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday called on the state Commission on Judicial Nomination to speed up the timeline for presenting him with possible replacements for Court of Appeals Judge Sheila Abdus-Sala… → Read More
Assessor defends actions that reduced value of Lake Placid site
ALBANY - The assessor for the Town of North Elba is defending his decision to reduce the estimated value of a plot of land owned by Adirondack Experience: The Museum at Blue Mountain Lake that is currently the target of an eminent domain action by the Village of Lake Placid. → Read More
Local architect allegedly not an architect
A Troy businessman has been hit with multiple indictments for allegedly claiming to be a licensed architect in order to secure work on a long list of building projects throughout the Capital Region. Three unsealed indictments - one apiece for allegedly bogus work in Albany, Saratoga and Rensselaer counties - charge Paul J. Newman of Cohesion Studios, Inc., with defrauding construction companies,… → Read More
Commission formally begins process to replace Abdus-Salaam
The state Commission on Judicial Nomination has begun the formal process of filling the seat on the state Court of Appeals left empty by the death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, whose body was retrieved from the Hudson River west of her home in Harlem last Wednesday. → Read More
It’s your tardy state budget React-O-Mat™
Love it or hate it or both, we’ll be collecting statements pro and con on the just-passed state budget. You can read Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s take in his Daily News op-ed. From the state Pub… → Read More
They’re gonna wait ’til the midnight hour (to pass appropriations bills)
The state Senate began Tuesday night’s bill passing with the relatively fast consideration of four Article VII bills, with the only hitch being the introduction of amendments by the mainline … → Read More
Criminal justice advocates press their case
Though the proposal to raise New York's age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18 remains a sticking point in what's slated to be the final week of state budget negotiations, other criminal justice issues remain on the table as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders hammer out a final package. Former Troy resident Adrian Thomas, who was initially charged with second-degree murder in the… → Read More