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WFP WHITEWASH IMMINENT

Courtesy of Big Government
http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/13/nutbusterz-judge-kaye-conflicted-in-working-families-probe/

Judge Kaye has prior conflict
WHEN WILL BERTHA LEWIS BE HANDCUFFED?

By Roscoe Conkling

Only weeks ago the New York Post reported that former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger gave a whitewash to ACORN, the shady community action/organization that specialized in voter fraud and sucking up public funds. Harshbarger, a liberal democrat whose career was funded by the same Labor unions who fund ACORN, is hardly an unbiased analyst.

More ominously, the New York Post predicted a similar Whitewash of the Working Families Party.

An ACORN front, the WFP hired former Judge Judith Kaye, a Pataki appointee to look at their books and pronounce them kosher. Pataki, you will recall, was endorsed by SEIU, the lefty public employee union that …funds ACORN.

In a BIG GOVERNMENT EXCLUSIVE we can now report that Justice Kaye has a prior association with the WFP leadership and in fact ruled for the WFP Bosses in a lawsuit.
This is a stunning conflict of interest. Justice Kaye is in the tank.

The Working Families Party in under investigation for illegal campaign financing in Staten Island, absentee ballot fraud in Upstate New York and the New York Times reported Federal subpoenas raining on this criminal enterprise.

WFP endorsed candidates are stooges of the very union’s whose sweetheart compensation, retirement and pension benefits are bankrupting New York. The WFP endorsement is the Mark of the Beast. New York voters are starting to catch onto this. The WFP endorsement will be an albatross this coming November.

We at NUTBUSTERZ won’t rest until Bertha Lewis – political boss at the Working Families Party – is dragged from her office in handcuffs. We fervently hope she resists arrest so that authorities can use nightsticks on this arrogant, criminal bitch.

Working Families Party Documents Subpoenaed

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/nyregion/16wfp.html

THE NEW YORK TIMES
December 16, 2009
By DAVID W. CHEN

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed documents from the New York City-based Working Families Party, which has been criticized in recent months over its campaign financing activities.

The labor-backed party made a splash this year by helping the incoming public advocate, Bill de Blasio, and several City Council candidates win competitive races.

But their tactics also drew accusations that the party’s for-profit arm, Data and Field Services — which provides staff members to knock on doors, call potential voters and hand out campaign fliers — was charging significantly lower fees than is usual for such services. Party officials have denied the accusation.

Such an arrangement, critics said, constituted an unfair and possibly illegal financial advantage. News of the subpoena, which was delivered on Monday, did not come from the United States attorney’s office, but from the Working Families Party itself on Tuesday afternoon, in what some political consultants saw as an attempt to get in front of the story.

In a statement, Dan Cantor, executive director of the party, said, “We welcome this inquiry, and are confident that it will ultimately demonstrate what we have said before: Our work has complied with both the spirit and letter of New York City’s Campaign Finance Law as well as all relevant state and federal election laws, tax and not-for-profit corporation laws.”

People close to the party who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk on the matter said that they did not know the scope of the subpoena, but said they were taking the investigation very seriously.

A spokeswoman for the United States attorney’s office would not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.

If there is indeed an investigation, however, the party’s actions in future elections could be curtailed. The party has been hoping to use its increased clout in the city to play a role in statewide races, like those for governor, attorney general and state comptroller. The legislative contests in Albany are sure to be a top priority, too.

But if the party is forced into a defensive crouch, candidates may be reluctant to accept its endorsement or support, according to political analysts. The party’s problems came into focus this summer, after the city’s Campaign Finance Board warned the party that it would be watching its finances closely.

In October, Randy M. Mastro, a former deputy mayor who is now an election lawyer, filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court on behalf of private citizens on Staten Island claiming that the Working Families Party had unfairly aided their preferred candidate, Deborah Rose, who ended up winning her race. The case is due to go to trial in January.

Then, shortly after the election, the Working Families Party announced the hiring of Judith S. Kaye, former chief judge of the Court of Appeals, and her firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to review their operations.