Mr. Halloran is one of the most colorful characters on the City Council, and his bio includes the fact that he is the leader of a local Pagan group, had a videotaped confrontation with a ticket agent, and sparked a Department of Investigations inquiry after he claimed that he personally knew of sanitation workers who deliberately sloughed off snow
removal during a blizzard to protest Bloomberg administration policies (the investigation found no truth to the claims).
A Rough Final Winter For New York's Sanitation Chief described the recent tribulations of Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty arising from a
blizzard of media and public complaints that the Sanitation Department failed to adequately perform it's snow
removal duties
during the January 21 - 22 storm.