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WNY firms, governments and organizations spent $3.6 million on lobbying in 2022; Kennedy is tops among legislators who are “most frequent targets of lobbying”

This Post includes a large table. It is best read on a computer or iPad. Lobbying activity makes the world go around in...

Monday Morning Read

Subscribe to WeeklyPost and you’ll get Jim Heaney’s recommended reading – and a summary of Investigative Post’s reporting from the previous week –  in your inbox Sunday mornings. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Chris Collins – remember him, the convicted felon who relocated to Florida and was later pardoned by Donald Trump? – is making noise about running for Congress in... View Article

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‘Inappropriate and questionable spending’ at IDA

A state review of the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency has found more than $250,000 of “inappropriate and questionable discretionary spending,” including costly holiday parties and membership to a golf club. Among other issues, the draft review by the Authorities Budget Office obtained by Investigative Post found: The IDA’s chief financial officer, Richard Dixon, was... View Article

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George Santos masterminded 2017 ATM fraud, former roommate tells feds

“Santos taught me how to skim card information and how to clone cards,” Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, who was convicted of felony access device fraud, said Wednesday in a sworn declaration submitted to the FBI.

On the Fourth Day of Preetsmas

  Mickey Kearns and Aaron Pierce To what extent might Assemblyman Mickey Kearns be implicated in the Great Preetsmas Massacre of ’15? On Tuesday, I ran through the fact that Kearns had been a recipient of generous campaign contributions from a Seneca businessman named Aaron Pierce.  Pierce and his companies have recently run afoul of the law and been prosecuted,