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If you invest in something that sounds too good to be true and it turns out to be a Ponzi scheme, do you deserve restitution? U.S. District Judge James Cohn is sorting out restitution claims in the Scott Rothstein case......

A controversy that swirled around the SentosaCare company???s hiring of staff for its nursing homes appears to have left unscathed the political standing of Howard Fensterman, the firm???s lead counsel and a major Long Island campaign fundraiser. On...

by Mark Silva Sen. John McCain's call for off-shore oil-drilling may not have caught on in Congress, where Republicans view it as a way to bolster the world's oil supply and lower gasoline prices and Democrats tend to side with......

by Frank James Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently likes a good earmark as much as most other politicians. The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense found that when Palin was mayor of little old Wasilla, Alaska she hired a well-connected......

All politics is local -- and Paterson remembers the lesson today. In a smart move, as Congress and the WH hash out an unprecedented $1 trillion federally backed facility to take over bad mortgages from banks, Paterson writes Treasury's Paulson......

Barbara Donno goes up with her second straight negative ad in her challenge to Dem Craig Johnson in the Nassau Senate race. This one tries to tie Johnson to the double dipping school pension scandal through his law firm. The......

Before we let it go, the "double dipping" ad that Republican Barbara Donno is running in Nassau in her State Senate campaign against Democrat Craig Johnson deserves another mention. In an item yesterday, we noted that the pension scamming......

Now, after today???s report on Carol Hoffman leaving the firm Jaspan, Schlesinger Hoffman LLP, from which she was a focus of the pension-abuse uproar ??? and where Sen. Craig Johnson is now ???of counsel??? ??? Johnson challenger Barbara Donno......

Attorney Carol Hoffman, who was stripped of nearly 15 years of pension credits last month after it was determined she???d been improperly listed as an employee of four Nassau County school districts, is moving on. Hoffman, 57, was a......

Barbara Donno spokesman Bryan Hurst, responding to questions about her second straight ad focusing on a scandal involving the law firm Craig Johnson works for but not involving Johnson himself, e-mails over a statement. The first ad had to......

Yesterday, Nassau GOP Senate candidate Barbara Donno put out an ad attacking Dem Craig Johnson because the law firm where he words was sued in 2005 for (allegedly) giving inadequate advice to the Roslyn school district during the embezzlement......

In her last ad, Plandome Mayor Barbara Donno, the Republican vying for Dem Craig Johnson's Nassau senate seat, tried to tie Johnson to the double-dipping pension scandal because he joined a law firm that had been involved in it. Now,......