Report: Insider Baseball: How Current and Former Public Officials Pitched a Community Shutout for the New York Yankees
Bettina Damiani, Eileen Markey and Dan Steinberg
Insider Baseball is an exposé of the political maneuvering behind the new Yankee Stadium project – costing taxpayers approximately $1 billion and the community 22 acres of heavily used parks – revealing a myriad of lobbying, consulting and law firms led by former elected and high ranking agency officials that helped the Yankees get massive subsidies and lucrative approvals.
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Additional Resources
- The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation by Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First
- Corporate Subsidies and You: Where Do New Yorkers Fit In?
- Guide to Corporate Research by The Corporate Research Project
- Glossary of Terms by Good Jobs First
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