Tangled Dealings Link Quinn, Lopez And His Brooklyn Machine

Tangled Dealings Link Quinn, Lopez And His Brooklyn Machine
City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn speaks during an event in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Quinn was there to announce Built/NYC, a pilot program intended to encourage local designers to work with the city. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn speaks during an event in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Quinn was there to announce Built/NYC, a pilot program intended to encourage local designers to work with the city. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

So much of what happens at the City Council occurs under the radar that few noticed when Speaker Christine Quinn started her second term in January 2010 with appointments that boosted the power of Vito Lopez, a synonym for scandal. Lopez ruled Brooklyn politics as its Democratic Party boss, chaired the state Assembly’s influential Housing Committee for years, and had long been collecting city and state funding for Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a huge social service empire that doubled as his very potent political base.

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