Once-prominent real estate developer Thomas Masaschi and various business partners and entities must repay $22 million in debt to a Rochester high-interest lending institution following recent rulings handed down in state Supreme Court in Monroe County. Masaschi and his co-defendants also have lost control of the former Vacuum Oil refinery on Flint Street, where a .April 6, 2022
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Politics is all about power. Yeah, that’s a little cliché, but it’s also the easiest way to explain what’s happened in the Monroe County Legislature over the past year or so. Since Democratic County Executive Adam Bello took office in January 2020, two different power struggles have been playing out in the Legislature, where Republicans hold a one-seat majority over Democrats. Rifts in the local Democratic Party over the selection of an elections commissioner and other matters led four Democratic legislators to break away from their colleagues and form the Black and Asian Democratic Caucus.