2017 "LULU" SCANDAL

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NEW YORK TIMES

May 11, 2017
"False Payroll Information Allows 3 State Senators to Collect Thousands"
(Jesse McKinley)

May 12, 2017
"4 G.O.P. Senators in New York Also Got False Titles That Carry Extra Pay"
(Jesse McKinley)

May 14, 2017
"How Albany justifies paying Senators for others' work",
(Jesse McKinley)

cc to McKinley: CJA's May 18, 2017 FOIL to Comptroller & Senate --
"RE: Senate 'certifications' for three years of 'lulu' payments (Legislative Law 5-a),
as reported by New York Times reporter Jesse McKinley, &/or existing"

DAILY MESSENGER
Julie Sherwood -- Senior Ontario Co. Reporter

May 16, 2017
"Helming respnds to scandal over stipend pay"
Julie Sherwood

CJA's May 17, 2017 e-mail to Julie Sherwood --
"Senator Helming & the larger scandal of nonfunctional, dysfunctional, & corrupt legislative committees of which the lulus --
and Senator Helming -- are a tiny piece"

CJA's May 19, 2017 e-mail to Julie Sherwood --
"Follow-Up..."

"Our view: Helming part of latest display of petty Albany corruption"
Daily Messenger (editorial) (with Middletown Herald-Record) 

CJA's May 22, 2017 e-mail  to Julie Sherwood --
"YOUR LEAD : -- FOIL/records request: The 'numerous bicameral commissions' whose 'leaders' have been receiving 'allowances' from 2012 to the present"

CJA's May 22, 2017 e-mail to Julie Sherwood --
"Advancing YOUR LEAD: -- Legislative Law Article 5-A"

May 23, 2017
"Helming video shows uncashed stipend checks"
Victor Post (Julie Sherwood) 

CJA's May 24, 2017 e-mail to Julie Sherwood --
"Clarification: Your Lead"

May 25, 2017 e-mail from Julie Sherwood --
"Re: Clarification: Your Lead"

CJA's May 25, 2017 e-mail to Julie Sherwood --
Question -- RE: Clarification: Your Lead

DAILY GAZETTE

May 19, 2017
"In state government the use of stipends is (legally) widespread"
(Stephen Williams)

CJA's May 20, 2017 e-mail to Stephen Williams --
"Tip of the Iceberg:  Your article: 'In state government the use of stipends (legally) is widespread'
(5/19/17 -- Daily Gazette)"

Professor Eddie Borges -- City & State

"Lulu scandal a proxy for infighting democrats in the Senate"
(Eddie Borges)

CJA's May 24, 2017 e-mail to Professor Borges --
"Bravo on your reporting -- but there is SO MUCH MORE for your reporting -- & scholarship"

YONKERS TRIBUNE

WHYT -- westchester on the level

CJA's May 25, 2017 e-mail to Hezi Aris --
"The 'lulu' scandal -- Latimer, Abinanti, Stewart-Cousins, for starters..."    (Stewart-Cousins)

CJA's May 26, 2017 e-mail to Hezi Aris --
"'lulus' & actually-constituted & functioning 'bicameral commisssions' -- CJA's Feb. 6th letter to Stewart-Cousins, Flanagan, Heastie, Kolb"