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July, 2, 2010 |20 Tamuz 5770
State Senator Carl Kruger Under FBI Investigation
Vol. 6, Iss. 27
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Turkey Closes Its Airspace To Israeli Military Traffic
Hunter College Welcomes “Dr. Morgenthau”
State Senator Carl Kruger BY SHMUEL BEN ELIEZER The FBI is again investigating NY State Senators. The latest probes are surprisingly bi-partisan, which is the best way to do corruption probing.
District Attorney of Manhattan Robert Morgenthau received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hunter College.
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here is one for a Democrat — state senator Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, whose dealings with a Brighton Beach nightclub owner are under investigation. And there is another for Republican Vincent Leibell of Putnam County, who managed to parlay a $110,000 property into a $1.4 million colonial mansion. (It helped that Leibell was able to sell a chunk of his property to the state, which conveniently wanted it for a new state park.) The investigation against Carl Kruger surfaced, when the feds arrested a lawyer named Michael Levitis last week for allegedly lying to FBI agents. Levitis heads a Brooklyn law-firm that specializes in personal injury lawsuits and “debt settlement.” Levitis also is the Vice-President of Entertainment and Marketing for the family owned Rasputin, nightclub on Coney Island Avenue. In 2008, Levitis threw a fundraiser for Kruger at Rasputin but Jeffrey Lichtman, Levitis’ lawyer, said that had nothing to do with efforts the senator was making on his behalf to clear up a problem with a health code inspection. Levitis’ lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman insisted there was no quid pro quo when his client agreed to host a fund-raiser for the senator at
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BY MAXINE DOVERE Turkey has banned Israeli Air Force from entering its air space. Turkey blocked an Israeli military flight from using its airspace after Israel’s deadly raid on a boat bringing aid to the Gaza Strip, and may prevent further military planes from flying through Turkish airspace.
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urkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday at the G20 summit in Toronto that Turkey had closed its airspace to Israeli flights after the May 31 raid killed eight Turks and one Turkish-American. The BBC and others reported it as a specific ban on Israeli military flights; CNN is alone in reporting it as a general ban on Israeli flights. While it is not clear if the move was a one-time incident or a change in policy, it underscores the increased tension between Turkey and Israel in the wake of the flotilla incident. The Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot
reported Sunday that Turkey refused to allow an Israeli air force cargo plane carrying military members on a tour of Holocaust memorial sites in Poland to fly through its airspace, according to the English-language Israeli news site Ynet. Israeli military officials reportedly did not publicize the event so as to avoid deepening the rift that has opened between the two former allies. Agence France-Presse reported that the incident occurred “immediately after” the May 31 raid, and it was not clear if the ban would extend to other military flights. AFP reported that it will not affect civilian flights. The Associated Press quoted a Turkish official as saying that each request for a military overflight will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. The AP also cited a
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Thursday, June 18, in the historic Roosevelt House, the New York City home of Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, former District Attorney of Manhattan Robert Morgenthau received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hunter College of the City University of New York. The degree was presented in recognition of his nearly half century of public service.
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ith Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab, resplendent in colorful academic robes, standing beside him, the nonagenarian graciously accepted his honor. During the ceremony, President Raab noted the close ties between Robert Morgenthau, the Morgenthau family, and both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and commented on the appropriateness of the awarding of the
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