Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Meade Esposito, a Brooklyn Democratic leader, admired a Picasso lithograph in Rockefeller's office in Albany, Rocky sent one to him as a gift...
EDWARD J. LOGUE, $176,389. A top urban planner, Logue was lured to New York in 1968 by Rockefeller to organize and direct the New York State Urban Development Corp., which oversees urban renewal and low-income housing in the state. One incentive was a $31,389 gift. In 1969 Rocky also loaned Logue $145,000 to buy a cooperative apartment. Logue has since repaid $45,000 of this loan and said he intends to pay it all. The cash apparently was given before Logue went on the New York State payroll...
...Curious Gift. Rocky's largesse was also demonstrated in smaller ways...
...Senate since 1968, including $28,750 to New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. The contributions were completely legal. Curiously, Rockefeller's letter listed one donation of $139,090 to a trust "for the benefit of a longtime personal friend and associate on private affairs"-the only gift whose recipient he declined to identify...
Because he was responsible for the work of the state's notary publics, Brown got involved in the controversy over President Nixon's gift of his vice presidential papers to the National Archives...