He was late more often than he was on time. He fell asleep during trainings and high-stakes hearings. He sometimes didn’t show up for hours, with barely an explanation. One of his colleagues surmised that he was a “narcissist.”

Brandon Stradford’s time on New York state’s Board of Parole involved one frustration after another, and documents about his removal process, obtained by New York Focus through a public records request, illustrate the full extent of the now-former commissioner’s dysfunction.

The Bronx Democratic Party has paid close to $300,000 over the past few years to a political consultancy run by a close ally of state senator and Bronx party chair Jamaal Bailey, new financial disclosures show.

Pomerantz LLP attorneys have donated to comptroller candidates for decades, highlighting a loophole in rules meant to keep government contractors from spending in city elections.