Veolia and Buffalo’s Water
In late June the Attorney General of the State of Michigan sued Veolia North America, a global and Great Lakes water company, charging them with professional negligence and fraud regarding the Flint Michigan water crisis. The company is charged with among other things, issuing a report in 2015 stating that the water was safe to drink when it knew that the representations were false.
Pigeonism is over. No longer can that individual credibly participate in any electoral process, anywhere. He owes more than three Teslas’ worth in unpaid federal taxes, he is under arrest - although free on bond — accused of nine felony counts, including grand larceny by extortion. Right now, two races are testing the scattered Pigeonistas’ ability to continue the patronage gravy train without their depraved guru.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman held a press conference in his Buffalo office Thursday afternoon to discuss the conviction of former State Supreme Court Justice John Michalek on corruption and bribery charges, and the arraignment earlier today of political operative G. Stephen Pigeon.
Political operative G. Steven Pigeon appeared in state Supreme Court in Buffalo Thursday morning before Justice Donald Cerio to be arraigned on an indictment alleging nine felony counts. Pigeon pled not guilty.
The special grand jury that had been meeting in Buffalo for many weeks returned its sealed indictment on June 28th. Assistant Attorney General Susan Sadinsky from the Public Integrity Bureau unsealed and served the indictment on Pigeon and his counsel, Paul Cambria in court Thursday morning.
Steven Spielberg has re-teamed with E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison for the slick big screen adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), and has spent a great deal of Disney dollars playing with CG, perspective, and a large number of anthropomorphic creatures. Like E.T., Dahl’s story pairs a human child (this time a girl) with an amazing creature (now a giant, but a small one bullied by his larger peers).
Unc Steve, how’d you do with the Gov???? - former Supreme Court Justice John Michalek asking G. Steven Pigeon about his efforts to help Michalek ascend to the Appellate Division, 4th Department
St. Patrick’s Friary, near Seymour and Emslie streets, is all that remains of Buffalo’s first Irish Catholic church complex. Here, in 1853, Bishop John Timon directed the construction of the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, then a modest frame building, as the “mother church” of Irish Buffalo.