"I don't want to go into too much detail, but I will say this: That was also on my mind when I made my own personal revelation," Mr. Paterson said, answering a radio host's question about allegations that the State Police, at the behest of the Spitzer administration, had investigated whether Mr. Bruno was improperly using state aircraft.
The state was improperly seeking to "coerce a church entity to finance private conduct that the church teaches is morally wrong," the organizations told the justices.
The South Bronx Unite lawsuit also claims that FreshDirect was improperly allowed to lease state-owned land that was intended originally to promote rail use in order to reduce truck traffic in the city.
Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee, said he argued 12 years ago that the state was improperly allowing landlords of buildings receiving J-51 tax breaks to deregulate apartments and raise rents.
The veterans have had somewhat more success in their six-year battle with the state over who owns all the regimental regalia, which the state says was improperly turned over to the Seventh Regiment Fund in 1952.
In November 1998, the chairman of Enron Oil & Gas, which at the time was majority-owned by Enron but is now a separate public company called EOG Resources, complained to Mr. Bush that the state comptroller was improperly assessing the company about $415,000 in crude-oil production taxes.
Mr Richardson is governor of New Mexico, and it turns out that the Feds are investigating possible corruption in that state, following allegations that a Californian finance company was improperly given a contract by the state Finance Authority.
The court ruled that the man, Robert Springsteen IV, was improperly barred from cross-examining the state's principal witness against him.
A federal district court ruled recently that the state of Vermont was improperly seeking to regulate nuclear safety, saying that it was solely a federal issue.
Did you slip and fall on property owned by the state of Florida that was improperly maintained by whomever it was that was recently governor?
