A senior investment manager for New York’s state pension fund accepted bribes including drugs, prostitutes and tickets to a Paul McCartney concert from two brokers in exchange for millions of dollars in fixed-income business from the fund, prosecutors said. Navnoor ...

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ALBANY — The New York pension fund for state and local government employees has grown to an estimated $150.3 billion with a nearly 6 percent return on investment this fiscal year, despite losses in international stocks, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli ...

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NEW YORK CITY — A former top political consultant to New York's disgraced ex-comptroller was led off to prison Thursday after a judge sentenced him to at least a year and four months behind bars for his pivotal role in an influence-peddling scandal involving the state pension fund.

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NEW YORK CITY — Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced an agreement with Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm Paladin Homeland Security Holdings, LLC as part of his state pension fund investigation.

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NEW YORK CITY — New York's attorney general is suing former Obama car czar Steven Rattner over his role in a "pay-to-play" scandal at the state pension fund.

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NEW YORK CITY — Former New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi pleaded guilty to a felony corruption charge Thursday for accepting free travel and campaign contributions from a financier who wanted the state’s multibillion-dollar pension fund to invest in his company.

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The New York State Common Retirement Fund is investing an additional $500,000 in OyaGen, Inc., a Rochester-based bio-pharmaceutical company focused on drug treatments for HIV/AIDs and other viral diseases.

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ALBANY — New York has reached a million-dollar settlement in a probe of the pay-to-play scandal at the huge state pension fund, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday.

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