The New York Observer

A number of New York state lawmakers received a disturbing email with the subject line "time to kill the wealthy" that threatened employees of tech companies if the state does not renew its tax surcharge on millionaires. According to Politico, the email used terminology from Occupy Wall Street movement, though there has been no connection made with what's actually happening in Zuccotti Park:

"The angry message demanded that Albany politicians 'stop shoveling wealth from the lower 99 percent into the top 1 percent' and “set aside your ‘no new taxes on anybody’ pledge.'"

News Corp. shareholders are calling for James Murdoch's head, but there are at least superficial clean-up efforts going on internally at News Corp. News International reporters have been told to call an "alertline" to report corrupt or illegal activities in the newsroom, stemming from revelations that News of the World reporters had paid police for Read More

Last year a group of advocates and lawmakers began a major push to clamp down on no-fault auto insurance fraud which they say leads to the staged auto accidents on the state's freeways and sky-high insurance rates.

That bill was squashed however by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and so now the same group is preparing to launch a huge public relations campaign and rebranding the effort from "New Yorkers Against Insurance Fraud" to "The Stop The Trial Lawyer Tax" campaign. Read More

Mayor Michael Bloomberg had some of his toughest words for the Occupy Wall Street protesters today, telling John Gambling on his weekly radio show “The protests that are trying to destroy the jobs of working people in this city aren’t productive."

If you focus for example on driving the banks out of New York City, you know those are our jobs," Bloomberg added. "You can’t have it both ways: If you want jobs you have to assist companies and give them confidence to go and hire people.” Read More