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I-Team: Heating Oil Businesses, Unions Block Plan to Protect New Yorkers From Fuel Rip-offs
Two years after criminal investigators shut down nine corrupt heating oil companies, city lawmakers have declined to vote on a bill to crack down on crooked fuel truck drivers in the future.
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Queens Newspaper Publisher Tried to Pressure Family Out of Testifying Against Bonanno Associate in Bagel Store Groping Case: Feds
The publisher of a small Queens newspaper has been arrested by the FBI, accused of trying to intimidate a family out of pressing charges against a Bonanno crime family associate with whom the publisher was acquainted, authorities say. Patricia Adams, 58, owns The Forum, a newspaper covering Howard Beach, Ozone Park and other neighborhoods. She was arrested at her Howard…