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New York To Pay Out $56.5 Million Over Bogus NYPD tickets

The settlement came following a rash of tickets given out to fulfill the NYPD’s alleged quota system.

Nathan Tempey | Gothamist
作者 Nathan Tempey | Gothamist
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly poses for photographers next to the new police cruiser, a 2006 Dodge Charger, on display at New York City Police Department's headquarters in New York, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

(REPORT) --- New York City has agreed to pay out as much as $75 million in taxpayer money to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit regarding hundreds of thousands of bogus summonses that lawyers alleged were the product of the NYPD's quota system. The proposed settlement hit the Manhattan federal court docket this afternoon and still needs

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Trump’s Bronx Golf Course Is A Giant Taxpayer Money Pit

City taxpayers are on the hook for the course’s sewage and water fees, which ran more than $1 million in the last year and are expected to rise in the coming year.

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作者 Nathan Tempey | Gothamist
Donald Trump stands on the 14th fairway during a pro-am round of the AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md.

Before he was famous for anti-Muslim conspiracy theories, Donald Trump was famous for, among other things, gloating about his business acumen while running businesses into the ground. When it comes to the demagogic presidential candidate's Trump Golf Links golf course in the Bronx, it's unclear how much money he's actually making. What does seem

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