Media Blasts Bribe-Taking Politician, Ignores Bribe-Giving Corporation
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"The corruption is ubiquitous." ---
"The corruption is ubiquitous." --- Pramilla Malick
"This morning, New Yorkers from Orange County fighting to stop the massive CPV fracked gas power plant had a tough decision to make.
Should they go to the court hearing that could decide the fate of the pipeline that will deliver fracked gas to the plant?
Or should they go to the corruption trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Competitive Power Ventures, the company building the plant in Waywayanda, New York.
Finding yourself wanting to be in two different courtrooms in the Thurgood Marshall Court House in downtown Manhattan is the bizarre world you end up living in when you’re fighting to stop a fracked gas power plant in your community.
Their world is now picketing outside the CPV construction site every Saturday, the plant now looming above them, nearly complete."*
Read more here: Medium: built-on-bribes-the-fracked-gas-power-plant-at-the-center-of-the-percoco-trial
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"This morning, New Yorkers from Orange County fighting to stop the massive CPV fracked gas power plant had a tough decision to make.
Should they go to the court hearing that could decide the fate of the pipeline that will deliver fracked gas to the plant?
Or should they go to the corruption trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Competitive Power Ventures, the company building the plant in Waywayanda, New York.
Finding yourself wanting to be in two different courtrooms in the Thurgood Marshall Court House in downtown Manhattan is the bizarre world you end up living in when you’re fighting to stop a fracked gas power plant in your community.
Their world is now picketing outside the CPV construction site every Saturday, the plant now looming above them, nearly complete."*
Read more here: Medium: built-on-bribes-the-fracked-gas-power-plant-at-the-center-of-the-percoco-trial
Follow Jimmy Dore on Twitter: Twitter: jimmy_dore
Follow Steve Oh on Twitter: Twitter: stevenoh88
Follow Malcolm Fleschner on Twitter: Twitter: CultureShlock
Follow Ron Placone on Twitter: Twitter: RonPlacone
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