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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-11 07:37 AM
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Bloomberg Gives Pal's Girlfriend 110G Job While Threatening Layoffs For City Employees
Edited on Mon Feb-14-11 07:38 AM by Hannah Bell
At the same time he was forecasting lay offs and issuing dire warnings that the city couldn't afford the size of its work force, Mayor Bloomberg was also nailing down a $110,000-a-year city job for the girlfriend of one of his closet political allies, The Post has learned.

Sources said City Hall arranged the hiring of Joan Cusack, the longtime companion of Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, right after she was bounced from the state payroll last year.

Now a manager at the Human Resources Administration, Cusack, 65, is making $19,200 more than she did as a member of the state Crime Victims Board, which went out of business last June.

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Interesting - the mayor hired Cusack the same way he hired his own girlfriend's drinking buddy, Cathie Black, to replace Joel Klein. There was no job opening posted. No actual search for candidates was conducted. And someone with connections but only oblique qualifications for the job was hired. In Cusack's case, Bloomberg actually had the position created.


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Smarmie Doofus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-11 07:58 AM
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1. In this era, "reform" is corruption; and corruption, "reform". n/t
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-11 08:25 AM
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2. orwell triumphs.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-11 08:35 AM
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3. Scratch a republican, find a corrupt hypocrite.
The story remains the same.
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grahamhgreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-11 08:38 AM
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