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Michael Cohen And Elnatan Rudolph: NY Staffers, Well-Paid Consultants, NJ Candidates
Many layers of overlaps and connections in many jobs for top Sampson aide and childhood friend
By Chris Bragg
A few months ago, Michael Cohen paid a courtesy call to New Jersey State Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the reform-minded “feisty Jewish grandmother” who was former Gov. Jon Corzine’s lieutenant governor running mate last year.Cohen, the district office chief of staff for Senate conference leader John Sampson and one of his most trusted aides, told Weinberg he wanted to run for a seat on the City Council in Englewood, N.J., where he ...
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Swimming In The High-Risk Pool, New York Argues For Coverage Of Non-Citizens
Implementation of federal health care reforms could result in State Constitutional challenge
By Laura Nahmias
New York State has found a loophole in the
federal health care reforms that it wants to use to cover a group of
non-citizens that Washington specifically has not, since before the 1996 welfare
reforms.The same loophole, though, could also present a challenge to the state’s constitution, if the federal government decides to cover fewer people than the state currently requires, government watchdogs said. At issue is whether a class of ...
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