Click on the New York Times story dated August 19, 1999 by Clifford J. Levy and Kevin Flynn-
Widening Inquiry On Pataki Donors And Parole Board
Here is an excerpt:
"The scribbled note from a political fundraiser for Gov. George E. Pataki to a Pataki administration official carried a terse directive: "These are three names that need to be followed up with." What came next were details on three men in New York prisons-violent young felons whose relative had made sizable donations to the Pataki campaign in the belief, prosecutors say, that the money would get the inmates paroled."

These violent drug felons later got paroles after their families gave Gov. Pataki campaign contributions.

Shortly before his trips the tobacco giant Phillip Morris gave this Chamber of Commerce that had little money in its accounts $30,000 which was presumably used for the Gov. Pataki's European trips.

Click on the New York Times Editorial of October 16, 1999-
Gov. Pataki's Friends
Here is an excerpt:
"Pataki has been nestling into New York State's comfortable system for some time now, and although he and his aides have insisted that he follows the letter of the law, that letter all too often looks like a D- on fund-raising and government ethics."