Word: ameruso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corruption could exist and I did not know of it." His ignorance may have been willful: during his first campaign for mayor, Koch, running as a reformer, secretly solicited the support of Meade Esposito, Brooklyn's powerful Democratic boss. Then, as mayor, Koch appointed Esposito's pal Anthony Ameruso as transportation commissioner, even though an advisory board had declared Ameruso unqualified. The transportation department went on to become the source of major scandals. Ameruso has been convicted of perjury, Esposito of corruption in a separate case. The mayor, says a critical politician, "can no longer claim that he didn...
Last week Lindenauer was also charged with making "false representations" to gain a $22.7 million parking-bureau computer contract for Citisource, a company partly owned by Stanley Friedman, the Bronx Democratic Party leader and a Koch supporter. As the scandal was breaking, Lindenauer's supervisor, Transportation Commissioner Anthony Ameruso, resigned, as did the director of investigations, the city's anticorruption chief. As many as eight separate city, state and federal investigations are looking into allegations of corruption within various city agencies. "My administration," Koch admitted ruefully, "lost the distance and the controls I had to maintain in order to avoid...
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