Former Intrepid President Has Been Under Investigation
Turns out Bill White, who abruptly quit as president of the Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum yesterday, has been under investigation in Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's State Pension-fund probe . White had been at the museum for 20 years, and said stepping down wasn't an easy decision, but gave no details as to why he was leaving. According to the NY Post , the investigation of White is ongoing, and probers were trying to determine his connection with soliciting Campaign Contributions for ...

Private work for former superintendent is found on Falls School District time
A Niagara Falls School District maintenance worker did private contracting work on the home of the then-superintendent during a paid workday, according to a private investigators' report and District attendance records. Jeffrey B. Pasquantino, who resigned last January, was seen leaving the Cayuga Island home of then-Superintendent Carmen A. Granto on June 7, 2004, according to the investigators' report. Investigators found Pasquantino's truck parked outside Granto's Hennepin Avenue home...

Hialeah unions irate over proposed layoffs
lisensee@MiamiHerald.com Soon after Julio Robaina became mayor of Hialeah, he bargained new contracts with the City's three unions. All three -- Firefighters, Police Officers and City workers -- received raises after a fairly smooth process. Fast forward four Years. New contracts are past due and negotiations are largely deadlocked. Adding to the unions' ire: Robaina, who acts as the City's top administrator, has announced plans to cut up to 250 City workers in rolling layoffs through the end...

Bill White, Head of Intrepid Museum, Quits
Post a Comment Mr. White, who guided the Aircraft Carrier Intrepid through Financial Troubles and a difficult departure from its berth on the West Side of Manhattan, resigned from the foundation that operates the museum and also left the two charities — the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and the Intrepid Relief Fund — that raise money to help wounded Veterans and their families. His departure was announced by Howard J. Rubenstein, a spokesman for the Intrepid, and by Glen Rochkind, a...

William White, Gay Head of Intrepid Museum in NYC, Quits Abruptly
William White, the gay COO of the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum in NYC, who was being pushed for Secretary of the Navy in 2008 , abruptly resigned Wednesday morning after 20 years on the job, and nobody knows, or will say, why : "Mr. White quit his positions at the floating museum on the Hudson and the foundation that operates it, as well as his roles with two charitable organizations that raise money to help injured servicemen - the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and the Intrepid...

Bill White Steps Down As Head Of Intrepid
  To view our videos, you need to enable JavaScript. Learn how . install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now . Then come back here and refresh the page.

Yonkers: Pensions Strain Budget
MYFOXNY.COM - When it comes to big Pension payouts, you'll have some people who'll say, these retired public workers deserve it. But the message from City Hall is: Yonkers can't afford it. With cities, like Yonkers, and the State of New York facing big Budget Deficits, some critics are stunned over the payout of Pensions to retired government employees. In Yonkers, at least one retired Officer is collecting more than $100,000 a year. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating whether some...

Bill White echoes Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison with criticism of Gov. Rick Perry
Bill White echoes Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison with criticism of Gov. Rick Perry

Colo. unions say they're blocking job-killing bills, got most of what they hoped from session
Denver — Despite legislation this year that could cost their members hundreds of jobs, Union officials said they got most of what they wanted from Colorado lawmakers. Unions said they helped save the State Employee Pension Plan and successfully lobbied for a Bill that puts limits on interest charged for Payday Loans. And they said they're getting hundreds of new jobs refurbishing polluting power plants, even though it could cost Union Coal Mining jobs. They also blocked legislation that...

Colo. unions trying to block job-killing bills
Denver — Despite legislation this year that could cost their members hundreds of jobs, Union officials said they got most of what they wanted from lawmakers. Unions said they helped save the State Employee Pension Plan and successfully lobbied for a Bill that puts limits on interest charged for Payday Loans. And they said they're getting hundreds of new jobs refurbishing polluting power plants, even though it could cost Union Coal Mining jobs. They also blocked legislation that could have...

Samsung Whistleblower Returns to the Public Eye
The man who led Samsung Electronics and the rest of South Korea's largest conglomerate for 21 years, Lee Kun-hee, is back in the public eye after again becoming chairman of the technology giant two months ago. But so is the corporate Whistleblower whose accusations led to Mr. Lee's Resignation and Tax Fraud conviction in 2008. Kim Yong-cheol, a former attorney in the Samsung conglomerate, has a best-selling book about his life, work at Samsung and his thoughts about Mr. Lee's control of...

Bill Requires Diversity In Calif. Pension Funds
Sacramento, Calif. -- California's Public Pension Funds would have to report the ethnicity and gender of some of the outside investment managers they hire under a bill that passed the state Assembly on Thursday. The bill states that businesses owned by women and Minorities are not adequately represented in the state's Pension Fund portfolios, compared to their proportion of California's population. It passed on a 41-22 vote and now moves to the state Senate. California's Public Employees'...

Bill requires diversity in Calif. pension funds
California 's Public Pension Funds would have to report the ethnicity and gender of some of the outside investment managers they hire under a Bill that has passed the state Assembly. The Bill states that businesses owned by women and Minorities are not adequately represented in California's Pension Fund portfolios. Supporters of AB1913 say the reporting requirement is necessary to ensure diversity in the investment contracts of California's Pension Funds. They want to see 10 percent of the...

Bill requires diversity in Calif. pension funds
WEST Sacramento — California's Public Pension funds would have to report the ethnicity and gender of some of the outside investment managers they hire under a bill that passed the state Assembly on Thursday.

Bill requires diversity in Calif. pension funds
Sacramento, Calif. -- California's Public Pension Funds would have to report the ethnicity and gender of some of the outside investment managers they hire under a bill that passed the state Assembly on Thursday. The bill states that businesses owned by women and Minorities are not adequately represented in the state's Pension Fund portfolios, compared to their proportion of California's population. It passed on a 41-22 vote and now moves to the state Senate. California's Public Employees'...

Bill to curb placement agents' influence on California pension funds stalls in committee
Sacramento, CALIF. — A bill that seeks to limit the influence of so-called placement agents at California's Public Pension funds stalled Wednesday in a key Committee of the State Legislature. The use of so-called placement agents, the middle men who help drive business to private investment firms, has come under scrutiny in California and New York where former Pension officials have been accused of accepting gifts in exchange for business. The bill, AB 1743, failed to pass out of the...

Taxpayers' bill for fraud soars by 50%
The Audit Commission has exposed

Intrepid president steps down
The organization that runs the Intrepid foundation and museum says Bill White has resigned as its president and trustee.

War of words: White camp blasts Perry over fund use
The war of words between the two men who want to be Governor escalated Tuesday, with the Bill White campaign insinuating that Gov. Rick Perry has used a business incentive fund to provide “Kickbacks” to friends and supporters. A week after insisting that Perry allow an independent audit of the Texas Enterprise Fund, which the Governor uses to entice companies to relocate to Texas, and a few days after a poll showed Perry lengthening his lead over White, the White campaign suggested...

New intel czar 'soon,' says Obama spokesman
President Obama says National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, whose Resignation was announced yesterday , "did a great job," but the president has been interviewing potential replacements. "The president has talked to a number of qualified candidates," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said today. Is CIA Director Leon Panetta -- an interagency rival of Blair's -- one of them? "I'm not going to get into personnel replacements," Gibbs said. Gibbs shrugged off Rep. Pete King's scathing...

Top U.N. officials in Sudan to go to Bashir ceremony
United Nations (Reuters) - The United Nations is sending its two Top Officials in Sudan to the inauguration next week of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the target of an International Arrest Warrant, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday. World Bashir, the subject of an Arrest Warrant issued in March 2009 by The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) on suspicion of War Crimes in Sudan's Darfur region, was elected president last month in a vote marred by charges of Fraud. Haile...

Anchors Aweigh! Fleet Week in New York City
Nearly every spring since 1984, Fleet Week New York has been celebrating the sea services. The annual event gives New Yorkers and those in the Tri-State area an opportunity to meet those in service to our country — as well as learn more about today’s Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Team. This year, Fleet Week 2010 is May 26-June 2, when thousands of uniformed Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen will fill the streets of Manhattan. Fleet Week includes dozens of Military...

Canadian colonel among dead in Kabul bombing
ICON