Officials believe a Poughkeepsie-based music company, Outta They League Entertainment, was used to launder the drug money. The company produced virtually no music since 2013 and had a payroll of less than $2000, yet made bank deposits of $1.1 million.
Hacked emails obtained and released by Wikileaks from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman show that high-level Democrats talked about how to keep New York Congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout on the sidelines during last spring’s high-stakes New York presidential primary against Bernie Sanders.
$175,000 is expected to be raised by metering the city’s six parking lots in Uptown, Midtown and the Rondout.
Federal officials say they’ve brought down a Kingston-based cocaine trafficking organization that imported drugs from California via New York City for sale on local streets. Twenty-eight members of the alleged drug ring were arrested on Thursday, Oct. 13 in predawn raids in Kingston and Poughkeepsie. Police say three people named in the indictment remain at large.
A move by Dutchess County officials to address overcrowding in its county jail is having fiscal repercussions across the river where the Ulster County Sheriff ’s Office is poised to lose a major source of revenue — boarding Dutchess inmates.
City officials plan to use a new law and a new state grant to target hundreds of “zombie” properties in
John Faso says he supports the ticket that was the product of the nomination process, but hasn’t endorsed Donald J. Trump and isn’t sure he’ll vote for him. This hair-splitting might be wise: In the most recent poll, Trump held a five-point lead over Clinton, including an 18-point lead with independent voters across the 11 counties which comprise the 19th Congressional District,
“If there was one mistake we made this year it was taking our foot off the marketing gas after the overwhelming response on opening day.”
A Kingston dentist who was acquitted of murder this summer is expected back in court later this month to stand trial on insurance fraud charges.
Donaldson and Parete’s lawsuit targets the language of the ballot measure, which they say is misleading and clearly intended to sway voters towards a “yes” vote.