New York sleaze parade: when will it ever end?

The Issue: The taxpayer-funded jobs that Bronx Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera gave to her boyfriends.

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While Bronx Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera abuses taxpayer dollars by hiring her boyfriends ? one to run her non-profit organization at $75,000 a year, and the other in a community relations position at $1,100 a week ? state Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver stands by her side (?A Test for Cuomo?s JCOPE,? Editorial, Aug. 21).

Silver is New York?s version of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. What a disgrace.Dan Galvin

Port St. Lucie, Fla.

Naomi Rivera

There has always been a lot of lip service about cleaning up New York?s political corruption, but that?s all it is.

Between ex-City Councilman Larry Seabrook, former state Sen. Pedro Espada, former state Sen. Carl Kruger and now Rivera doling out taxpayer money to her boyfriends, there is no end to these public disgraces. Either nobody sees or they refuse to notice politicians shoveling cash to friends, lovers and family members. Is it because New York is top-heavy with Democrats, or is it because so many are involved in their own kind of corruption that they dare not speak out?

Doesn?t this look fishy?

Alexis Jeffries

Bayville, NJ

I dare any City Council member to propose legislation that no member or any of their family can be affiliated with any nonprofit organization funded by the city.

Allowing it is a license for them to steal.

Nicole Francis

Brooklyn

Is it possible to get through just one day without hearing about some corrupt New York politician breaking the law or committing some ethics violation?

When the lawmakers become the lawbreakers, they should never get out of jail.James Panzo

Brooklyn

These machine politicians afflict our state like roaches in a kitchen.

The only thing more disgusting than Rivera mugging defiantly in her zoot suit, the appropriate garb of mobsters, is her roster of lackeys.

Knowing how hard state taxpayers must struggle to pay for just one of these louts should wake up our political class and bring this corruption to an end, but it won?t.Scott VanKuren

Middleburgh

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