While some hospitals are serving their ultra-wealthy, cash paying customers lobster tail and letting them convalesce in gigantic suites, Brookdale University Hospital in Brownsville can't even keep their bathrooms stocked with toilet paper. "They are trying to financially stabilize the hospital; that's what they are telling us," radiology technician and 1199 SEIU delegate Paulette Forbes told the Daily News. Forbes brings a roll of toilet paper with her to work, but no word on whether Brookdale will begin using controversial "Shake it off" therapy on patients to further cut costs. more ›

What is it about day care centers that seems to bring out the worst in New Yorkers? 54-year-old supervising FDNY safety inspector Carlos Montoya was arrested on Friday for accepting tens of thousands of dollars worth of bribes from day care centers. According to Manhattan's U.S. attorney Preet Bharara [pdf], Montoya, who has been a safety inspector since 1993, "was responsible for certifying that day care centers throughout the city complied with fire safety standards," but "allegedly solicited bribes to look the other way, potentially compromising the safety of the children who attended these centers.” According to the Times, Montoya has been released on $100,000 bond. more ›

Everybody gets a bribe! You get a bribe! And you get a bribe! And you get a bribe! That, at least, seems to be the attitude over at the offices of Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., who was arrested earlier this week on a second set of corruption charges after being acquitted of the first earlier this year. See, it wasn't just Boyland taking money. According to the FBI his chief of staff, Ry-Ann Hermon, was in on the take too. And it made her hot. more ›

New York's restaurant letter grades have been around for a year now, most restaurants have been graded and a majority have gotten themselves A's. But along with the rise of letter grades (and the increase in fines for the city's coffers that have come with them) something else has been on the rise: attempted bribery. Yesterday the police arrested a restaurant owner in Queens for trying to pay off an inspector with $500. His was by no means the first such case this year. more ›

An MTA HR staffer has been accused of taking cash bribes from people in exchange for jobs with the MTA. Ronica Ganesh, 28, is suspected of telling applicants she could get them entry-level subway mechanic positions for at least $1,000. Officials also believe she may have fudged applicants' test scores for an additional $500. She denied the allegations to the News, and implied a vaster conspiracy behind the accusations: "These are false allegations...There was somebody who was harassing me." more ›

Since coming to the Jets last spring, former Super Bowl MVP Santonio Holmes has made more headlines off-the-field than on it. Even before he was fitted for a Jets uniform, he was suspended for four games of the season for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy the year prior. He played his first Jets game in Monday night's lightning bowl, but today, he is facing accusations that he may have accepted money from his agent while he was still in school. more ›

In this week's New Yorker, the Department of Investigation (D.O.I.), the city's "secret police," gets the patented sprawling New Yorker treatment. And it turns out that secret police, like Rodney Dangerfield, have a hard time getting any respect. more ›

The feds' raids and arrests this morning didn't just capture the NJ mayors and officials (past and present)—there are rabbis, relatives and apparently an organ dealer! A total of 44 people were arrested in a "broad-ranging corruption and international money laundering investigation." more ›

Retailers at the city-owned East Broadway Mall in Chinatown say they've been forced to pay costly cash bribes or "key money" in order to move in or extend their leases with the building's management company. Local activist Steven Wong tells City Room the key money shakedown has been part of life in Chinatown for decades, and is also called "yum cha," or "dim sum money." The payoffs can range from a few months' rent to hundreds of thousands of dollars. more ›

">accused by the feds of taking over $500,000 in bribes. Or, as Seminerio allegedly called it, "consulting" payments. more ›