"Inquiries Over Ghost Budget Items Prompt New York Leader to Hire Defense Lawyer"
"Christine C. Quinn, the speaker of the New York City Council, has hired a criminal defense lawyer to represent her in federal and city investigations into Council spending practices, an aide said on Friday.
The move comes a week after disclosures that Ms. Quinn’s office had appropriated millions of dollars to organizations that do not exist, instead routing the money to organizations favored by individual council members....
She has said that the Council’s use of fictitious organizations to hold money in reserve dated to 2001...."
Given all the economic woes the American people are facing, WTF?
