From the Daily News:Queens City Councilman Dan Halloran is losing another top aide in the wake of his arrest on federal corruption charges.
halloran by hagen.jpgI tweeted earlier about Legislative Director John Mulvey's plan to leave Halloran's staff this Friday.
Beating him to the door after bombshell allegations that Halloran conspired to help state Sen. Malcolm Smith get into the GOP primary for mayor: The councilman's trusty chief of staff, Chrissy Voskerichian, who took off on Monday.
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Tabone has emailed friends and acquaintances, offering to perform legal work at cut-rate prices.
“I find that this is the year where I need to focus my energies on growing my law practice,” Tabone wrote, according to a copy of the email obtained by the Daily News.
“If you are spread thin and can not make an appearance or a transaction doesn’t fit your parameters please keep me in mind!”
Tabone’s plea made no mention of the legal jam he’s in.
From the NY Post:
Halloran’s office issued a delusional press release yesterday about capital spending — without mentioning that he’s lost his legislative powers after being charged with taking a bribe in a sensational federal corruption case that also ensnared state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Queens) and two Republican Party leaders.
“I thank my hard-working staff and all the constituents who put so much time and effort into this process over the past several months,” Halloran is quoted saying in the release.
“We learned a great deal. I especially congratulate the winners and encourage even more participation next year in every district.”
Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced last week that she and the Queens council delegation were assuming control of Halloran’s funds, so he’s out of the picture.
“He doesn’t have any fund-making decisions,” said Jamie McShane, Quinn’s spokesman. “He was stripped.”
The constituent recommendations are “nonbinding,” McShane noted.
From the Gotham Gazette:
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called Councilman Dan Halloran's press release celebrating his district's participatory budget "stupid" and "outrageous."
Quinn spoke about the embattled Republican councilman during a press conference in City Hall today, referencing one of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's oft-used turns of phrase.
"I don't usually quote Mike Bloomberg, but it's one of the stupidest things I have ever seen," Quinn said, adding that Halloran would have no say in how discretionary funds would be allocated for the projects his residents voted on last week.
"I don't care how many stupid press releases he issues," she said.
25 comments:
Halloran is clearly suffering from some form of mental illness. He now resembles a Shakespearian tragic figure on the skids....one who still insists on spinning delusional visions about his waning power.
Macbeth's final scene in the Scottish play:
"Lay on Mac Duff, and damned be him who first cries, hold enough"!
Chrissy and the rest of Halloran's little retinue have a lot to worry about.
They may be abandoning the sinking ship but the federal authorities will, no doubt, want to be questioning them about their possible collusion in Halloran's law breaking scheme.
Like Israeli Nazi chasers, the FBI can be relentless.
Staffers would be well advised to keep their passports up to date, for a quick vacation abroad.
He remains arrogant 'til the end,
and it's written all over his face in this picture.
Can you picture Halloran in a Waffen SS uniform?
No wonder he was so attracted to his Germanic Theod religion?
Maybe he's a closet white supremacist, among other closeted things. His brand of Tea Party devotion has taken down the GOP.
It's chance of ever recovering, in Queens, is extremely slim.
If it weren't for Kevin Kim, this pompous Baboon would have never been elected to his seat.
The local mobsters supported Halloran over Ackerman's stooge. They even threw a Halloween party for him in Bowne Park.
Bye, bye,Dan...who, when convicted...will be disbarred!
Maybe Joey Franco will make Dan consiglieri...
or Peter Marino might employ him in the produce department, when he gets out of jail.
I (reluctantly) take off my hat to you Mike Schenckler.
You were right about Halloran being goofy and dangerous.
Too bad that your newspaper's endorsement of Ackerman's puppet, Kevin Kim, was not a good alternative to Halloran.
Either way the district gets f----d.
The only choice we had was getting in in the front or the rear.
GRAZIANO FOR CITY COUNCIL!
Don't blow the next election, voters.
Voracious Vallone will undermine everything that the civic associations of northeast Queens have successfully fought for.
"Daily News reported yesterday that any funding toward winning projects would be decided on by Quinn with consultation from the Queens Council delegation, although the participatory budget results would not be binding."
Great! One bum, Halloran, replaced by another bum, Quinn.
I'd rather have no representation in city hall than slimy Quinn and the rest of her Queens sycophants.
It looks like Dan is shooting blanks in every department.
As they say,
when what's between your legs has a chastity belt snapped on it, you can always go oral and raise your rhetoric to a fevered pitch.
Has Halloran ever kissed the Blarney stone?
How the hell can Halloran run without party ($$$$$$) support?
He's a pariah. They (what's left of them) won't touch him. Yer on yer own me bhoy!
I'll bet he doesn't have $5 left to spend for campaign posters.
Anonymous #3... just wait until Halloran squeals on the Vallones and the other Democratic stooges/Obama vombies in Queens and the shenanigans they've been pulling.
Now the pork-dork will never get the judgeship he desired.
I suspected him for a coke head when I first heard him speak at a College Point candidates night.
He winds up....all wide eyed...delivers a spellbinding load of amorphous blather...then comes down from his rush, looking dumbfounded.
Poor soul!
Vallone got his balls in excrow, he ain't talking. Vallone's got everyone's balls in excrow.
Vince Tabone is going to have a hard time getting clients for legal work with these charges hanging over his head. Actually, it is really hard to make a living as a solo practioner lawyer these days. It may also be a waste as the bar will strip him of his law license upon conviction.
How come Palmieri is representing Tabone and not Halloran?
Isn't Halloran still listed as Of Counsel on Palmieri & Costiglione's website. They may want to update the site.
Don't they have a satellite office in close proximity to Halloran's office.
Please, Crappy, promise that every time you run an item about Halloran, you'll use that photo of him being arrested. It's priceless.
How cut rate? I could use him to sue all my annoying neighbors if he's that cheap.
The system that empowers Halloran and Quinn is "stupid" and "outrageous."
End the member items. And let these non-profits shake an empty coffee cup in front of the public.
Separation of non-profits and state.
How did Tabone and Halloran get law degrees. Neither of them appear to be too bright.
Matter of fact, they both seem a bit out of touch with reality.
Now thats a thug mugg if I ever saw one.
Fucking piece of shit scum bag!
Rot you miserable crook
So I just told a friend that I don't give a crap if Dan Chrissy Vince and Paul V had a pagan orgy and then flogged Eachother. Then I realized what a funny yet sick visual
It's out...in the New York Post...that Halloran
DID INDEED PORK Meaghan, who was 1/2 his age.
Afterwards he gave her a staff position.
WTF appealed to Meaghan to have an "affair" with Dan...his beer belly or his pagan religion Theod skirt?
This cradle robber is going down, big time!
Does Dan suffer from the "Irish curse" (teenie weenie)?
We already know that he's short on brains!
Just ask his staffers.
Wait until he sees the size of cellmate Bubba's salami.
Halloran can be quite an orator when he's all juiced up.
Maybe his oral skills were also superb.
I wouldn't let that porker into my basement...all sweaty and blathering. I'm strictly a Democratic party girl.
And I've been around the block!
Have you heard the newest boss taps? Mafia "protects" them from"drunken Irish", "junkman Jews", "greedy Greeks" and "black cannibals"? Now we know why they want Vallone
Eric Holder for Mayor! His FBI put Halloran away!
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