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As Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie cheered for the Dallas Cowboys from a luxury Buffalo Bills suite, he was surrounded by friends: his college roommate and now lobbyist Patrick Jenkins; Jenkins’s
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A complaint filed with the state's ethics watchdog agency accues Gov. Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Majority Leader Crystal People- Stokes of abusing their positions by turning the state's VIP luxury suite at the Buffalo Bills Stadium.
Lawyer David Grandeau argued that Kathy Hochul “secured the benefit of the use of the box” for her “private benefit” rather than for “governmental purposes.”