NYPA has long been the gold - standard
patronage mill for both parties, a quiet place far from public scrutiny where former elected officials and high - ranking staff go to pad their pensions.
The state shut down the New York City OTB in 2010 after the public corporation — which operated about 50 storefront gambling dens and served as
a patronage mill for crooked political hacks — went bankrupt.»
Not exact matches
But it would also lead to the re-creation of 32 community school boards that in the past were maligned
for corruption and being
patronage mills.
He would turn the AG's office into the Republican
Patronage mill and the state would be worse
for it.