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Office of Children and Family Services facilities keep youth in small cells for days or weeks at a time, violating state regulations, the suit claims.
No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.
Resorts World is floating legislation to avert more than $500 million in payments to the horseracing industry.
The feds gave New York key evidence on horse racing’s largest doping ring. State regulators have done nothing with it for years.
State regulators ignored FBI evidence of horse drug purchases for years. That was a “huge failing,” a key assemblymember said.