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All told, Roti's kin are paid $351,000 a year by the city. His daughter Rosemary Marasso is a mayoral press aide; her husband Ronald was just promoted from city painter to maintenance manager at O'Hare International Airport, thus becoming the highest paid city worker in...
While the white middle class has nearly abandoned the city's public schools, it has not abandoned the school committee. For years, the committee was either a stepping stone for higher office or a place to collect the benefits of an extensive patronage system. Often it was both. With the...
Incumbents Elvira "Pixie" Palladino and John McDonough were implicated in fellow committeman Gerald O'Leary's extortion scheme, but cleared in a subsequent trial. McDonough barely made the final election, though, and has been a weak candidate in the past; he may have been hurt too much by the bad...
India's Parliament has hotly debated the propriety of Antulay's action. At one point, all of the members of the opposition parties angrily walked out in a rare show of unity. Last week a Bombay court held a hearing on a criminal complaint filed against Antulay by...
Sometimes, of course, there is no sign of the Holy Ghost inside the jury room. Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Margiotta stood accused of mail fraud and extortion, and a court clerk warned prospective jurors that the trial might last four to six weeks. Richard Yurack, who had recently been...