New York legislature passes long-delayed state budget — including provision for AG Letitia James’ legal defense

New York Post ^ | 05/13/2025 | Vaughn Golden

[butlerweave]

Will James pay taxes on this ? LOl

[butlerweave]

Wait this is James personnel legal problems not State/City legal problems

[SeekAndFind]

Regardless. She STILL gets paid for her legal problems ( even personal ).

[TalBlack]

This has GOT to be illegal.

[Sirius Lee]

It’s like an inverse bill of attainder.

[Thank You Rush]

“”Deputy State Senate Majority Leader Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) argued that the law is needed “because we are currently in an environment politically where the legal system, the prosecutorial system, investigative bodies of government are being used to target political enemies.””

From a DEMOCRAT - is he serious?

[adorno]

a provision slipped into the budget — first revealed by The Post — that could leave state taxpayers on the hook for millions of dollars of legal fees for Attorney General Letitia James.

If the state gets any federal funds, then the federal government could deduct from those funds the amount of the legal fees that the state spent on defending Letitia.

Paying the legal fees in a private case should be illegal. Legal fees are not normally covered by an employer; not if it was for a private case not having to do with running her office or any part of the government.

[napscoordinator]

Not if the state congress passes it.

[Donbue]

I see they did offer tax dollars for her defence but they didn’t offer to serve her upcoming prison time.

[Revel]

Someone should take the case against it. Using taxpayer funds for the defense of only one class of people should not be legal. And it is for crimes that have nothing to do with her official job.

[ridesthemiles]

IMO—IT IS

IT ALSO IS AIDING & ABETTING A FELONIOUS PERSON

[Lazamataz]

I thank my lucky stars for the day I left that shithole, New York State.

[1Old Pro]

They don’t call it The Rotten Apple for nuthin.

[jpp113]

By extension, this makes committing felonies such as mortgage fraud an OFFICIAL JOB DUTY of the NY Attorney General. Leftists NEVER EVER THINK THINGS THROUGH before doing.

[dfwgator]

Don’t mind the maggots.

[Vision]

Corrupt and rotten is as corrupt and rotten does.

[antidemoncrat]

Corrupt governments take care of its corrupt employees as long as the corrupt employees are valuable to it.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””Both houses of the state legislature passed Gov. Kathy Hochul’s massive $254 billion state budget package Thursday night”””

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Gee, could this be the reason people with money are leaving NY for a new home in FL?

The Florida budget for 2025-2026 is proposed to be approximately $117.4 billion,

FL population is greater than NY.

But NY Budget is more than 2 times greater.

Such is what happens when Democrats are in charge of anything.

Namely, the price doubles and the quality of services declines.

[mewzilla]

Albany is an overflowing cesspool of public corruption.

Where’s the FBI when ya need it.