Top staffers flee NY cannabis regulator after Gov. Kathy Hochul dumps agency’s head
THC See you soon! Several top officials at New York’s marijuana regulator have resigned after Gov. Kathy Hawkle fired the agency’s chief, calling it a “disaster.” Officials leaving the Office of Cannabis Control (OCM) include Health and Safety Director Nicole Rosa, Deputy Director for Licensing Daniel Holmes, First Deputy General Counsel Patricia Piskorski Heer and […]
FBI raids home of former Hochul aide
The FBI searched the Long Island home of a former aide to New York Governor Kathy Hockle earlier this week. Federal agents searched Linda Sun’s five-bedroom, $3.5 million mansion in a gated community on Long Island’s North Shore. “The New York FBI conducted court-authorized law enforcement operations in Manhasset,” an FBI spokesperson told Fox News […]
FBI raids home of former NY chief diversity officer who also worked for Gov. Hochul
Early Tuesday morning, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched the Long Island home of a former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hockle (D). The New York Times report. The five-bedroom, $3.5 million mansion that Linda Sun shares with her husband, Chris Foo, is located in a gated community on the North Shore. […]
FBI raids former Hochul aide’s $3.5M Long Island home
A former aide to Gov. Kathy Hawkle was reportedly subjected to an FBI raid early Tuesday morning at her $3.5 million Long Island home. Federal agents conducted a pre-dawn search of the five-bedroom property in a gated Manhasset community where one of Hawkle’s former deputy chiefs of staff, Linda Sun, lives. The New York Times […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul asks Biden for emergency declaration after severe weather devastates parts of NY
New York Gov. Kathy Hockle has asked President Joe Biden to declare a federal emergency after severe weather devastated parts of the state earlier this week. Hawkle’s letter to Biden cited the high winds and heavy rains that wreaked havoc on July 15 and 16 across 15 counties, including Genesee, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oswego, Oneida, Saratoga […]
Hochul signs bills to extinguish deadly e-bike battery fires that killed 18 in NYC
New York is rekindling its fight against lithium-ion battery fires in electric bikes. Gov. Kathy Hockle signed a package of bills Thursday banning dangerous, low-quality batteries that she said have been linked to about 270 fires in New York City last year alone, killing 18 people. “These batteries don’t burn like firewood, they explode like […]