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☆ Winnie Greco, longtime NYC mayor's aide and liaison to the Asian American community, has resigned
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Kimmy Yam | Kimmy Yam Is A Reporter For Nbc Asian America. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A longtime aide to embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams has stepped down. Winnie Greco, director of the city’s Asian Affairs, resigned to her post on Monday after more than a decade working closely with Adams as a liaison between him, in his different capacities, and the Asian American community. Her resignation comes after Greco and several other Adams aides were raided by the FBI earlier this year. Greco is among several top aides marred in controversies coinciding with the Adams investigation. The home of Abbasova, a liaison to the Turkish community, was raided by authorities last year.

Persons: Eric Adams, Winnie Greco, Adams, Greco, Mohamed Bahi, Bahi, Steven Brill, ”, ” Brill, Greco’s, Rana Abbasova Organizations: New York City, Asian Affairs, American, FBI, City Hall, NBC, mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, NYC City Hall, Agents, NBC News, Brooklyn Borough, International Affairs, Abbasova Locations: New York, ”, NBC New York, Flushing, Queens, Brooklyn, China, Abbasova

☆ Former Goldman analyst gets 28-month prison sentence for insider trading
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

A former Goldman Sachs and Blackstone analyst was sentenced to 28 months in prison Wednesday for insider trading, after admitting that his conduct was “catastrophically stupid.”Anthony Viggiano, 27, of Baldwin, New York, was sentenced by US District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan, after pleading guilty in January to securities fraud. Viggiano was accused of passing tips on eight planned corporate mergers and partnerships between 2021 and 2023 to college friend Stephen Forlano and construction sales representative Christopher Salamone, a childhood neighbor. Forlano passed some tips to a US Army captain he was friends with, prosecutors added. The eight transactions included American International Group’s sale of part of a business to Blackstone and the purchase of satellite operator Maxar Technologies by private equity firm Advent International, a Goldman client. Salamone’s sentencing is on August 20, while the Army captain was not criminally charged.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, ” Anthony Viggiano, Baldwin, Valerie Caproni, Viggiano, Stephen Forlano, Christopher Salamone, Prosecutors, Forlano, Goldman, ”, ” Viggiano’s, Steven Brill, “ Organizations: Blackstone, US, US Army, Maxar, US Marine Corps, Army Locations: Baldwin , New York, Manhattan, Salamone

☆ Opinion | Should Trump’s Jan. 6 Trial Be Televised?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Let the World See the Jan. 6 Trial,” by Steven Brill (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 7):If you put a live camera in the courtroom with Donald Trump, you will give him exactly what he wants. The trial will very quickly spin out of control, and that is exactly what Mr. Trump wants. You will never convince Mr. Trump’s die-hards that he got a fair trial. Conduct a normal untelevised trial and prepare for violence if Mr. Trump is convicted. The pending trial of Donald Trump on charges related to the 2020 election will be, far and away, the most important court proceeding of our lifetimes.

Persons: Steven Brill, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump’s, Bruce Higgins Organizations: Bruce Higgins San Diego

☆ Steve Brill: The Trump Trials Should Be Televised - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Steven Brill | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The only issue that Americans on all sides of our vast political divide seem to agree on is that we cannot agree on anything. Even basic facts have become matters of opinion. But polls indicate that about one-fifth of all Americans believe the microchip conspiracy theory to be true or are unsure whether it is true. It is a fact that Hunter Biden’s laptop was real, not part of a Russian disinformation campaign. In the work I do looking at the reliability of online news and information, I can see that the erosion of trust in basic facts is largely the result of too many people getting their news from social media platforms.

Persons: Bill Gates, Hunter Organizations: New York Times

☆ Boomers Greed Ruined Economy for Gen Z, Millennials
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Alex Yablon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

The boomers' economy is brittle, stingy, and built on undersupply. While inflation may be cooling a bit, future prosperity for millennials, Gen Zers, and beyond depends on reversing this economywide bottleneck created by boomers. Boomers shrank the labor force they need nowThe baby boomers ensured the labor market of the generations after them would be inadequate in a few major ways. The boomer ethos on housing, which views homes not as places to live but as financial assets, is mirrored in the rest of the economy boomers made. They make loans, investment, and housing more expensive — putting the economy on a diet instead of growing the pie.

☆ Ex-'socialite heiressblogger' Emily Brill is back — and she's terrorizing the pet industry
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Emily Brill might be the most hated woman in the pet industry. Now, Brill — the preppy blond daughter of the media magnate Steven Brill — is reinventing herself as the founder of the dog-centric publication The Canine Review. Courtesy of Emily Brill Show less One reader even threatened to cancel their subscription because of the so-called bird-massacre photo shoot. Courtesy of Emily Brill Show less Brill says the photos reassure readers that "I'm not a stereotypical sort of Manhattan, head-up-my-ass, agenda, PETA person." It isn't a bad start, but "she's got a long way to go to make it really thrive," Steven Brill told Insider.

☆ TikTok’s search engine repeatedly delivers misinformation to its majority-young user base, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Emma Tucker | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

TikTok, whose users are predominantly teenagers and young adults, “repeatedly delivered videos containing false claims in the first 20 results, often within the first five,” the report states. “Google, by comparison, provided higher-quality and less-polarizing results, with far less misinformation.”A Google spokesperson declined to comment on the report when contacted by CNN. For example, a search for the question “Was the 2020 election stolen?” yielded six videos that contained false claims in the first 20 results, NewsGuard found. In response to the NewsGuard report, a TikTok spokesperson told CNN that its community guidelines “make clear that we do not allow harmful misinformation, including medical misinformation, and we will remove it from the platform. If I had kids of TikTok age, I would certainly want to know what they’re using as a search engine,” Brill said.

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