Hundreds of same-sex couples were turned away from the New York marriage bureau as part of a coordinated protest. [DN] Jerry Nadler's $3 billion for transit amendment was never approved by the Senate. [TRE] Councilwoman Maria Baez may face a tough challenge for re-election. [WBN] Austin Shafran says State Senate Democrats are definitely getting rid of Joe Bruno's ...

ALBANY—About two hours after his indictment on honest-services charges was unsealed in federal court today, former State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno held a press conference to proclaim his innocence and announce that he would fight back against a prosecution he called politically motivated. He walked into the gathering at the Crowne Plaza hotel affecting a casual attitude—humming ...

ALBANY—After Joe Bruno proclaimed his innocence of a federal indictment handed up this afternoon, federal prosecutors and investigators laid out their case against him, and presented another conclusion from their three-year investigation of the former majority leader of the State Senate: the legislative process is "Byzantine." "The ability to understand the legislative process is difficult at best," said John ...

Joe Bruno is marketing space in Eliot Spitzer's Crown Building. No, silly, not that Joe Bruno! Still, the irony is rich. A real estate broker who just happens to have the same name as the former governor's arch-nemesis, is the sublease agent for space on the eighth floor of the Crown Building at 730 Fifth Avenue -- home to ...