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STAMFORD, Conn. -- Entering the race for State Senate in April, Ted Kennedy Jr., the son of a United States senator and the nephew of a president, denounced the way [...]

This article is by Steve Eder, Richard Sandomir and Alison Leigh Cowan. In March 2012, a group of online retailers was sued in federal court, accused of having participated in [...]

The House Ethics Committee said Monday that it had authorized an inquiry into the campaign finances of Representative Michael G. Grimm, a Staten Island Republican who is already under investigation [...]

Soon after he began running for Congress in 2009, Michael G. Grimm, a Staten Island Republican, needed to convince party leaders in Washington that he could raise enough money to [...]

When one of the biggest real estate developments in Brooklyn was stalled two years ago, its owner turned to the city government for help, seeking $20 million in financing. Nearly [...]

The Mets are looking for buyers of at least 25 percent of the club, and at least one potential bidder may come bearing flowers. James F. McCann, the founder and [...]

Daniel J. Langevin was 35, mentally ill and broke. He had been living in psychiatric institutions on and off since his early 20s. A friend who visited him at the [...]

It's one thing, in the heat of a campaign, to overlook a taxi receipt buried in the back of a wallet. But how does an elected official who has run [...]

In many ways, the opening of the National Museum of Catholic Art and History in East Harlem was a kind of miracle. It was founded by a single mother without [...]

Here's a sign the recession is not over: New York City this year may stop buying scarves, backpacks, even watches, for the homeless at Christmas. Watches? For the homeless? Since […]

but their bank accounts are not. Two candidates for mayor of New York, the city's comptroller, William C. Thompson, and Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, have less than $100,000 each […]

The refrain is a familiar one: Each year, the country's biggest tobacco companies have provided a bonanza to the states under a $246 billion legal settlement struck nine years ago, […]

Amid accusations that it shortchanged patients while it was diverting millions of dollars to a country music label in Nashville, Connecticut's second-largest operator of nursing homes filed for bankruptcy protection […]

The Rev. Michael Jude Fay, a Roman Catholic priest, pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to charges of defrauding his parish of nearly $1 million from 1999 until 2006, […]

Senator John McCain made his pitch to this gilded shoreline suburb back in April. Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts came on May 7, followed one night later by former […]

Over the past two decades, she has made an ample fortune as the impresario behind young companies with big ideas. They count on her for money, market intelligence and moxie. […]

One of the two whistleblowers who helped expose a financial scandal at St. John Roman Catholic Church here that led to the ouster of its longtime pastor has resigned as […]

The probate judge overseeing the estate of Andrew M. Kissel appointed the uncle of Mr. Kissel's widow yesterday as executor in accordance with the dead man's will. Judge David Hopper […]

Although Andrew M. Kissel was in the throes of a bitter divorce from his wife, Hayley, at the time of his murder last month, the Greenwich real estate developer left […]

The Roslyn school district has been promised $7.7 million from its former auditor and from former officials who have pleaded guilty to stealing school funds. But even if all that […]

By her own admission, Pamela C. Gluckin stole $4 million from taxpayers in the years she ran the business affairs of the Roslyn school district on Long Island. A former […]

Civil rights advocates are closely watching legal developments in a case involving the multimillion-dollar theft of funds from the Roslyn school district, to see if it results in a new […]

Just how much is the handshake of a jailed former governor worth? And how binding is it on the lieutenant governor who took over for him last July, as she […]

Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut said yesterday that she was considering closing the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, the cheerless prison that became a costly symbol of corruption for the […]

Can a city have too much of a good thing? City officials here, including Mayor John DeStefano Jr., have been pondering that lately. They know that New Haven would not […]

Connecticut's Commission on Culture and Tourism recently paid a design company $10,000 for a new logo that has some people angry and others scratching their heads. The logo features a […]

Saying that he still wants to be Connecticut's next governor, Mayor Dannel P. Malloy opened his personal records to state prosecutors and to journalists this week to show that there […]

A contractor who worked on the house owned by Mayor Dannel P. Malloy has a tax bill with the city going back to 1992 and is associated with a company […]

Mayor Dannel P. Malloy has asked city officials here to seek new bids on two contracts that came in for criticism because the winners had contributed to Mr. Malloy's gubernatorial […]

Long before Indian-sponsored casinos became the biggest reason people traveled to Connecticut, the state's biggest draws were Mystic Seaport and Shakespeare, as performed here. From its perch overlooking the Housatonic […]

Most people who visit the town dump here do not seem to realize they are quite literally holding the bag for a piece of the Enron debacle every time they […]

On the morning of March 19, Dr. Kenneth I. Berns, chief executive of Mount Sinai Medical Center, was preparing for a meeting with union officials when he received a visit […]

The clinic that bears this city's name was always a jewel of the American health care system, dispensing world-class care that cut no corners and made money, too. Its billion-dollar […]

Behind the door of Room 3300 at the Farm Credit Administration in McLean, Va., sits Carl A. Clinefelter, director of the Office of Secondary Market Oversight, and his lone employee, […]

One of the nation's largest pension funds won a court victory yesterday against two affiliates of Olympia & York Developments Ltd. The ruling, which concludes that the troubled Canadian real […]

Allowing Olympia & York Developments Ltd. to restructure its debts in Canada so that it can avoid liquidation could consume as much as $29 million in legal and other administrative […]

By filing for court protection in the United States a few hours before doing so in Canada, the Reichmann brothers mounted what many saw as a clear attempt to harness [...]

A committee of Pan American World Airways creditors sued Delta Air Lines yesterday for its actions in backing away from a reorganization plan that might have saved the bankrupt airline […]

William J. Gilliam, chairman of the Rexene Corporation, has walked tall as a deal maker on Wall Street, especially after he and some employees of Drexel Burnham Lambert led a […]

Apparently seeking to shed some of its riskier loans, Wells Fargo & Company is said to be exploring the sale of $400 million of loans it made for various leveraged […]

A leading accounting group said yesterday that it had approved restrictions on the types of loans its 300,000 members can get from audit clients, but the package was a watered-down […]

The creditors of Pan American World Airways agreed early this morning to a new offer from Delta Air Lines for Pan Am's most prized assets. The creditors' about-face came after […]

Addressing a skeptical group of Pan Am creditors, Delta Air Lines offered yesterday to put up $200 million to help Pan Am reorganize around its Latin American division as part […]

Barely five weeks after it began commercial flights, Braniff International Airlines yesterday became the third airline by that name to seek bankruptcy protection from creditors in the last nine years. […]

Just hours before T.W.A. faced possible seizure of many planes because it could not pay its debts, the airline's chairman averted a showdown yesterday by reaching a tentative agreement with […]

Investment bankers working on bankruptcy cases will have to disclose hourly billing rates and account for their time down to every six minutes under strict new guidelines that became effective […]

The Best Products Company, a retailer whose shoppers buy from catalogues at stores famed for their bold architecture, sought refuge yesterday under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. The […]

Attributing its problems to a litigious society, changes in the tax law, a soft economy and negative publicity, Laventhol & Horwath, once the nation's seventh-largest accounting firm, filed for protection […]

Convinced that legal problems would continue to plague them even if they pumped in more money, the nearly 350 partners of Laventhol & Horwath voted on Sunday to file for […]

LEAD: Accountants and tax advisers said yesterday that the budget accord would pry open some, but not many, loopholes that individuals and businesses could use to reduce their taxes. Accountants […]