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Is this newsworthy RE: NYC & Mayor Bloomberg ???

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Stifko

Diamond Member
Bloomberg was able to convince American Express to keep their business in Manhattan and not move out of town to Jersey or where ever they were looking at.

Now, all of a sudden AmEx is the credit card of Bloomberg's business.

Thats ethical coincidence or influence peddeling ?
 
I wouldn't be surprised if it is scratching the back of one another, but then again AMEX is the leader in providing corporate cc services.
 
If it was the other way around, such as Amex agreed to do business with Bloomberg, and all of the sudden it became the credit card of NYC government, that would be a problem.
But Bloomberg is a private company, and if they want to do business with Amex in gratitude for it staying in NY, that's their right.
 
Originally posted by: SuperTool
If it was the other way around, such as Amex agreed to do business with Bloomberg, and all of the sudden it became the credit card of NYC government, that would be a problem.
But Bloomberg is a private company, and if they want to do business with Amex in gratitude for it staying in NY, that's their right.
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what are you kidding? what is to stop bloomberg from offering this same "deal" to other companies? It sounds like a clear conflict of interest to me.
 
Originally posted by: Hector13
Originally posted by: SuperTool
If it was the other way around, such as Amex agreed to do business with Bloomberg, and all of the sudden it became the credit card of NYC government, that would be a problem.
But Bloomberg is a private company, and if they want to do business with Amex in gratitude for it staying in NY, that's their right.
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what are you kidding? what is to stop bloomberg from offering this same "deal" to other companies? It sounds like a clear conflict of interest to me.
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What's your point? I dont see how what he's doing is a conflict of interest and what if he does this with other companies? Seems like a good idea to me. The city needs all the help and support it can get.
 
Originally posted by: Ciber
Originally posted by: Hector13
Originally posted by: SuperTool
If it was the other way around, such as Amex agreed to do business with Bloomberg, and all of the sudden it became the credit card of NYC government, that would be a problem.
But Bloomberg is a private company, and if they want to do business with Amex in gratitude for it staying in NY, that's their right.
Click to expand...

what are you kidding? what is to stop bloomberg from offering this same "deal" to other companies? It sounds like a clear conflict of interest to me.
Click to expand...


What's your point? I dont see how what he's doing is a conflict of interest and what if he does this with other companies? Seems like a good idea to me. The city needs all the help and support it can get.
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Yep, too bad that Bloomberg seems intent on running businesses and individuals out of the city with tax hikes and smoking bans...

 
Originally posted by: Ciber
Originally posted by: Hector13
Originally posted by: SuperTool
If it was the other way around, such as Amex agreed to do business with Bloomberg, and all of the sudden it became the credit card of NYC government, that would be a problem.
But Bloomberg is a private company, and if they want to do business with Amex in gratitude for it staying in NY, that's their right.
Click to expand...

what are you kidding? what is to stop bloomberg from offering this same "deal" to other companies? It sounds like a clear conflict of interest to me.
Click to expand...


What's your point? I dont see how what he's doing is a conflict of interest and what if he does this with other companies? Seems like a good idea to me. The city needs all the help and support it can get.
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how do you know bloomberg didn't use his power as the mayor of the city to influence amex?
What is to stop bloomberg from going out to a company and saying "if you do business with my company, I will do anything in my power to pass this law/bill that you want"
or... "sign this contract with my company or I will get rid of all those nice tax breaks you are getting"
 
Originally posted by: Hector13
Originally posted by: Ciber
Originally posted by: Hector13
Originally posted by: SuperTool
If it was the other way around, such as Amex agreed to do business with Bloomberg, and all of the sudden it became the credit card of NYC government, that would be a problem.
But Bloomberg is a private company, and if they want to do business with Amex in gratitude for it staying in NY, that's their right.
Click to expand...

what are you kidding? what is to stop bloomberg from offering this same "deal" to other companies? It sounds like a clear conflict of interest to me.
Click to expand...


What's your point? I dont see how what he's doing is a conflict of interest and what if he does this with other companies? Seems like a good idea to me. The city needs all the help and support it can get.
Click to expand...

how do you know bloomberg didn't use his power as the mayor of the city to influence amex?
What is to stop bloomberg from going out to a company and saying "if you do business with my company, I will do anything in my power to pass this law/bill that you want"
or... "sign this contract with my company or I will get rid of all those nice tax breaks you are getting"
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I dont, But neither do you.

He stopped a company from leaving the city which was planning to leave, nothing more. I see no problem with it.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Ciber
Originally posted by: Hector13
Originally posted by: SuperTool
If it was the other way around, such as Amex agreed to do business with Bloomberg, and all of the sudden it became the credit card of NYC government, that would be a problem.
But Bloomberg is a private company, and if they want to do business with Amex in gratitude for it staying in NY, that's their right.
Click to expand...

what are you kidding? what is to stop bloomberg from offering this same "deal" to other companies? It sounds like a clear conflict of interest to me.
Click to expand...


What's your point? I dont see how what he's doing is a conflict of interest and what if he does this with other companies? Seems like a good idea to me. The city needs all the help and support it can get.
Click to expand...

Yep, too bad that Bloomberg seems intent on running businesses and individuals out of the city with tax hikes and smoking bans...
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I agree, personally I don't see Bloomberg becoming Mayor of NYC again.
 
Originally posted by: Ciber
Originally posted by: Hector13
how do you know bloomberg didn't use his power as the mayor of the city to influence amex?
What is to stop bloomberg from going out to a company and saying "if you do business with my company, I will do anything in my power to pass this law/bill that you want"
or... "sign this contract with my company or I will get rid of all those nice tax breaks you are getting"
Click to expand...

I dont, But neither do you.

He stopped a company from leaving the city which was planning to leave, nothing more. I see no problem with it.
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So by ignoring the problem, it's okay?
A mayor's interest should be soley those of the people of the city.
The fact that he may by motivated due to his relationship with bloomberg the company sort of implies a conflict of interest, no?

 
I agree, personally I don't see Bloomberg becoming Mayor of NYC again.
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Me either, he is almost as useless as David Dinkins was, except he is white and rich.

When it was found out that the MTA was keeping two sets of books, he should have stepped in a stopped the fare hike.
They have like a couple billion in surplus and the fare still went up fifty cents. Not to mention the huge scandal w/their headquarters at 2 Broadway that also cost a few million.
 
no wonder city on tickets blitz after keep settling huge lawsuits


City Settles Lawsuit With Patients Evacuated From Nursing Home

JUNE 02ND, 2003

Five years after hundreds of elderly and disabled patients were evacuated from a Queens nursing home in the middle of the night, the city has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $5 million.

In September of 1998, the 300 residents of the Neponsit Health Care Center were transferred to other facilities, because the city said buildings on the campus were in danger of collapsing after a storm. But the patients were not given prior notice, and their relatives were left scrambling to find out what happened to them.

?It was traumatizing,? said Brenda Tripp, whose mother was moved to a home on Randall?s Island. ?I saw it on the news. I had no idea. I began to call places. I was busy at work, trying to call places to figure out exactly what happened to my mom. It took me two weeks to find her.?

?The patients didn't understand where they were going,? said Janie McKenzie, the daughter of a patient. ?Their stuff was in bags, the little that they could take with them was in bags and they were running around disoriented, they didn't know what was going on, neither did I for that matter.?

A lawsuit was filed in the next month, accusing the city of violating the patients? constitutional right to due process. A settlement was announced outside Manhattan Federal Court on Monday.

?Each resident will get $18,000,? said April Newbauer, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society. ?In the case of residents who are now deceased, their estate or family members will be able to collect that compensation. As the family members themselves said, this is not about the money; this is about what happened to those people.?

In addition to monetary damages, the city agreed to give advance notice and follow a specific protocol when transferring patients from any nursing home with 100 patients or more.

?The major part of the settlement is making sure notice is given to family members and proper agencies so that the city can't once again traumatize so many people,? Newbauer continued.

Neponsit has remained closed, but the buildings are still standing.


 
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