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Private sector background (0.00 / 0)

He cashed in a telecomm related business in bygone years, which may help explain some of the "living large" lifestyle.

Incidentally, you can look at five years of financial disclosure forms for State Legislators nationwide on the center for Public Integrity's website.  Here's a link to the page with the NY legislators' filings:

http://www.publicint...

Keep on digging.

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by: teaparty2 @ Sat Dec 16, 2006 at 17:16:35 PM UTC

Thanks for the answer.... (0.00 / 0)

...just asking.


We've got some work ahead of us.

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by: NYBri @ Sat Dec 16, 2006 at 17:36:08 PM UTC

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State contracts made him rich (0.00 / 0)

Let's not forget he's been feeding at the public trough for years.

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by: Harlan Pepper @ Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 17:24:27 PM UTC

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Sounds like a diary... (0.00 / 0)

Would you posting something soon?

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by: am @ Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 18:03:08 PM UTC

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Here's a tidbit from an old NY Time article (0.00 / 0)

(Nov. 26, 1994)
In 1959, Mr. Bruno and a partner founded the Coradian Corporation, a company that sold commercial telephone systems in the Northeast and Midwest. The company flourished, at least in part because of business from state and local governments where Mr. Bruno had political influence. Those ties, and the possible conflicts of interest they posed, were investigated by the Governor's Commission on Government Integrity in the late 1980's, although the commission ultimately found more fault with the state's conflict-of-interest laws than with Mr. Bruno.

When Mr. Bruno sold the company to Mitel Systems Integrators Inc. in 1990, it had 700 employees. The sale made Mr. Bruno a wealthy man, although he said today that "I don't live a wealthy life style."

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by: Harlan Pepper @ Mon Dec 18, 2006 at 13:57:15 PM UTC

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You got a link...? (0.00 / 0)

...also...this sounds like a diary. You game?

We've got some work ahead of us.

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by: NYBri @ Mon Dec 18, 2006 at 14:09:14 PM UTC

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Here's the link (0.00 / 0)

http://tinyurl.com/t... (It's behind Times Select)

Unfortunately, no time to do a diary. I'm sure there's lots of information out there--and anyone who's lived in the area for decades probably knows his backstory. In fact, most of this I heard from my parents years ago--they found his "cut state spending" platform remarkable considering all the money he made supplying the state with phone systems. 

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by: Harlan Pepper @ Mon Dec 18, 2006 at 14:23:22 PM UTC

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Puzzling (0.00 / 0)

Question: Why has it taken the amazing wycats here and Ben's apa to make this information people friendly?

Gotta be because those two have far more technological resources and staff than the State of New York. It must have broken a lot of hearts in Albany to let the data go out like that, but, doggone it, spreadsheets are hard!

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by: MattK D1 @ Sat Dec 16, 2006 at 20:35:36 PM UTC

Link does not include the senate data (0.00 / 0)

Great to see the link up.  I tried it out but the spread sheet only had the assembly data  - not the senate data.  I think its the first version of the spread sheet posted by Ben.

Cheers

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by: milesblack @ Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 04:15:22 AM UTC

check the tab at the bottom... (0.00 / 0)

We've got some work ahead of us.

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by: NYBri @ Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 04:35:25 AM UTC

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Try it now.... (0.00 / 0)

We've got some work ahead of us.

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by: NYBri @ Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 04:40:07 AM UTC

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