NEW YORK — A former New York City councilman will spend five years in prison for misdirecting hundreds of thousands of dollars for community pro...

Whether term limits or member items and now redistricting, Christine Quinn's approach has always been to play the angles for her own gain and advancement. We need a mayor who is focused on the needs of New Yorkers, not on their own ambition.

Corruption and crime has become cancerous in our body politic in New York in the last decade. What kind of example are our leaders setting for the rest of society?

NEW YORK — A veteran politician was convicted Thursday on nine of 12 counts in a corruption case accusing him of putting hundreds of thousands o...

The other shoe dropped Tuesday for Hiram Monserrate. The first state Senator to be expelled from that body since 1781, Monserrate was indicted by a Federal grand jury.

Since Hevesi has turned out to be a crook, what politician can we believe to be honest? In China, such a person would be executed, but that is not the American way.

Long before the $177 bagel, there was the secret divorce. When accused City Council crook Larry Seabrook legally dumped his wife in 1993, he skippe...

Larry Seabrook, a Bronx Democrat and former assemblyman and former state senator, bought a bagel sandwich and diet soda for $7 one day and submitted a...

I am stuck by the sheer audacity of the editorial page of the New York Post. Their editorial begins by simply assuming every single member of the City Council is corrupt.

City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook surrendered to city and federal authorities in Manhattan on Tuesday to face a 13-count indictment accusing him of mo...