Hypocritical Times Smears Whistleblowing Conservative Councilman With Wife's Bankruptcy

admin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:25:00 +0000

Given the importance the Times gives toward the financial situation of the wives of subjects, one wonders how the paper managed to miss it when one of its own economics reporters, Edmund Andrews, wrote Busted, a May 2009 book about his own personal mortgage crisis that denounced greedy banks, yet left out his wife's previous two bankruptcies?

Clay Waters

Not content with casting doubt on charges made by New York City Councilman Daniel Halloran, Republican of Queens, of a union-authorized work slowdown during the infamous blizzard that hit Manhattan the day after Christmas, reporters Russ Buettner and William Rashbaum dove into his personal finances to discredit him in Wednesday's "Evidence Is Elusive on Charge Of a Blizzard Work Slowdown."

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Hypocritical Times Smears Whistleblowing Conservative Councilman With Wife's Bankruptcy