{"id":5203,"date":"2009-08-05T07:23:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2009-08-05T07:23:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:23:02","slug":"eat_out_from_the_trough_of_new_york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/eat_out_from_the_trough_of_new_york.html","title":{"rendered":"Eat Out (From The Trough Of) New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was once a perfectly good closed circuit feed of boring city council meetings somehow turned into a flashy taxpayer-supported media empire and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2009-08-04\/news\/inside-the-mayor-s-studio-nyc-tv-and-the-secrets-of-new-york\">now it&#8217;s all coming down<\/a> . . . more Bloomberg legacy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In fact, city investigators only tumbled to Scotland&#8217;s thefts after they launched an inquiry last year into complaints by employees at NYC-TV. The wide-ranging gripes included charges that Wierson and other top officials were often absent and appeared to be using city staff and resources for their own private projects.<\/p>\n<p>The results of that inquiry were assembled in a memo that was presented to City Hall shortly before Scotland&#8217;s arrest. Since then, in addition to Wierson, at least four other high-ranking aides at the network have also quietly resigned. Asked last week if they&#8217;d been fired, a City Hall spokesperson declined comment.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was once a perfectly good closed circuit feed of boring city council meetings somehow turned into a flashy taxpayer-supported media empire and now it&#8217;s all coming down . . . more Bloomberg legacy: In fact, city investigators only tumbled to Scotland&#8217;s thefts after they launched an inquiry last year into complaints by employees at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,53,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-jerk_move","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}