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NYRA President Charles Hayward, claiming that the state Court of Appeals has made his group exempt from audits, will fight Comptroller DiNapoli’s subpoena issued yesterday.
DiNapoli, citing their unwillingness to open their books, claims "it is the same old NYRA in new sheep’s clothing trying to shortchange taxpayers again."
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December 29th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Isn’t Sir Charles the same guy who went apespit because he didn’t get the 2010 Breeders’ Cup at Belmont? That would have been sweet, huh?
December 29th, 2009 at 9:46 am
For an organization that can’t get the toilets to work or the water to run on the franchise’s biggest day, what does anyone expect.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
look at the three stouges what do you expect
December 29th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
What the hell kind of business is EXEMPT from any kind of audit, including Big Brother? What planet are these racing people living on????…Bernie Madoff’s?
December 30th, 2009 at 4:15 am
For the benefit of those reading the above who reside in states other than New York:
Despite his complete lack of qualifications, DiNapoli was tabbed by party bosses in Albany to succeed Alan Hevesi (who had resigned under pressure).
I’m no NYRA fan. But for this buffoon, this rag-tag bowling alley pin-setter to be criticizing businessmen who - in comparison to DiNapoli - at least know how to meet a payroll, is AMAZING.
Well, I must be going now. My three-year old son wants to have a word with me about the tax implications of our recent family trust investments.
December 30th, 2009 at 9:43 am
For the benefit of those who reside other than in reality, a business knowing how to meet its payroll does not place it above criticism from government officials. This is particularly true for business who meet their payroll only after repeated government cash infusions, and businesses who have had their special government franchise to operate a state-created entity renewed only after pledging to clean up its act [remember criminal indictments, court appointed monitors, etc].
December 30th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Dear Mr. Hoist: Well said; agreed.
(Other than the assertion that people such as yourself enjoy a residential monopoly in the real world, a ridiculous conceit plagiarized from trite soap opera scripts. Steer clear of these insupportable, ill-advised remarks; they set you up as a vaudevillian straight man, the impossible-to-miss target of ridicule.)
My point is that DiNapoli should be the last person in the world in charge of complex audits, which in the hands of competent public servants or private sector accountants can detect financial irregularities (should any exist).
Now that NYRA has reversed their position (simultaneously & exactly in the same manner as the hapless/hopeless Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, after having made a disastrous blunder identical to her original “all is well” proclamation), the story moves forward.