Richard Kessel

Hand-written calendar pages for New York Power Authority Chairman Richard Kessel, released under terms of the Freedom of Information Law, indicate the former LIPA chief has kept up regional contacts ??? while running an agency at the nexus of......

George Marlin, the outspoken author, Conservative Party figure, and one-time Port Authority executive who resides in Nassau, has this post whacking Richard Kessel's years at the helm of the Long Island Power Authority. Kessel, of course, has gone on......

State Power Authority President Richard Kessel has a tie to new Chief Court of Appeals Judge Jonathan Lippman that pre-dates both men???s time in government: Summers as kids at Camp Oxford-Guilford, upstate. When Lippman was chief administrative judge...

Now in his second big power-authority job, Nassau???s Richard Kessel, right, finds himself drawing political static. Last month the New York Power Authority, which Kessel chairs, agreed to cede hundreds of millions of dollars to help fill the state???s......

Fran Evans, who was chief of staff for Nassau???s Democratic legislative majority when Judy Jacobs was Presiding Officer, has landed a new job with Richard Kessel at the New York Power Authority. Evans started Feb. 4 in NYPA???s White......

First the background: We already knew that certain investment companies looking to do business placing funds for the state pension system paid scads of money in fees to firms connected to political consultant Hank Morris. Morris' political consulting...

Gov. David Paterson, who appointed former LIPA chief Richard Kessel to head the New York Power Authority and had his administration raid the upstate agency's reserve funds, is now urging Nassau's Kessel to forestall even minimal rate increases to...

Brian Higgins, a Democratic Congressman from western New York once mentioned as a possible appointee to the Senate seat now occupied by Kirsten Gillibrand, has called on Gov. David Paterson to cancel the latest cash raid on the New......

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo helped headline the Suffolk Democratic dinner Tuesday night -- then exited early to host his own fundraising fete at Oheka Castle in Huntington. According to some present, the $500 a head event drew about......

The purpose and significance, if any, are unclear, but Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office has scooped up records at the state comptroller's office that Ken Lovett at the Daily News describes as covering "companies that have won state contracts using.....