{"id":10355,"date":"2009-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"pension-fund-kickback-accusation-leveled-in-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/pension-fund-kickback-accusation-leveled-in-albany.html","title":{"rendered":"Pension fund kickback accusation leveled in Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat and Chronicle &#8211; The former chairman of the state Liberal Party was accused Wednesday of receiving at least $800,000 from the state pension fund as a kickback for helping elect former Comptroller Alan Hevesi and Hevesi&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond B. Harding, who for decades was the face of the now-defunct party, was charged with multiple felonies in violation of the Martin Act, the state securities-fraud statute, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced. <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/article\/20090416\/NEWS01\/904160336\/0\/ENT0503\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat and Chronicle &#8211; The former chairman of the state Liberal Party was accused Wednesday of receiving at least $800,000 from the state pension fund as a kickback for helping elect former Comptroller Alan Hevesi and Hevesi&#8217;s son. Raymond B. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9372,1504,10355,1038,10351,10357,2984,10356,10341,10354,10350,6265,10352,187],"class_list":["post-10355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-alan-hevesi","tag-attorney-general-andrew-cuomo","tag-comptroller","tag-decades","tag-democrat-and-chronicle","tag-elect","tag-felonies","tag-harding","tag-investment-executive","tag-liberal-party","tag-martin-act","tag-securities-fraud","tag-state-securities","tag-state-pension-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}