
Chris Bragg
Capitol Bureau Chief at New York FOCUS
Capitol bureau chief, New York Focus. Longtime investigative reporter covering New York government, former Buffalo News, Times Union. Tips: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
nysfocus.com | Chris Bragg
Mayor Mike Spano has stated his administration has not been lobbied by his powerful brother’s firm. Emails indicate otherwise. Chris Bragg · April 30, 2025 Pedestrians and traffic fill South Broadway in downtown Yonkers, N.Y., on Monday, April 29, 2025.
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1 month ago |
nysfocus.com | Chris Bragg
A Queens court’s failure to reveal a romance has sparked accusations of bias. Chris Bragg · April 9, 2025 Judge Peter Kelly has run the Queens Surrogate's Court for over 14 years.
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1 month ago |
nysfocus.com | Julia Rock |Chris Bragg
At New York Focus, our central mission is to help readers better understand how New York really works. If you think this article succeeded, please consider supporting our mission and making more stories like this one possible. New York is an incongruous state. We’re home to fabulous wealth — if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world — but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We’re among the most diverse – but also the most segregated.
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1 month ago |
nysfocus.com | Chris Bragg |Julia Rock
At New York Focus, our central mission is to help readers better understand how New York really works. If you think this article succeeded, please consider supporting our mission and making more stories like this one possible. New York is an incongruous state. We’re home to fabulous wealth — if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world — but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We’re among the most diverse – but also the most segregated.
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2 months ago |
nydailyrecord.com | Chris Bragg |Patty Remmell
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. CRIMINAL JUSTICE · March 7, 2025Throughout the 1990s, favoritism ran rampant in New York City’s court system: Political leaders within the boroughs were getting state Supreme or Surrogate’s Court appointments from the same judges they’d helped elect.
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New: In Yonkers, Mayor Mike Spano has stated his administration has not been lobbied by his powerful brother’s firm. Emails indicate otherwise. https://t.co/2yRTe9hYSv

RT @nysfocus: NEW: Shannon Hynes felt something was amiss in Queens Surrogate’s Court, where she was locked in an inheritance dispute with…

New: The son of a top New York judge is at the center of a controversy over an undisclosed romance. Meanwhile, the top state judge, Joseph Zayas, has himself appointed his son's girlfriend and boss to prestigious positions https://t.co/QzxT2HStnq