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2019 JFA Kickoff Party

Please Join Us   2019 Campaign Co-Chairs: E. Stewart Jones, Jr. – E. Stewart Jones Hacker Murphy and David Cost – Barclay Damon, LLP   2019 Justice For All Annual Campaign Kickoff Thursday, September 19, 2019 Fort Orange Club, Albany … Read More …

NYT: Faith in a ‘Hidden Paycheck’ That Could Vanish for Good

  Retirement should be carefree for Ralph and Rosemarie Bryden in their 500-square-foot bungalow in rural Rhode Island. They garden and bowl, but financial worries loom.   The Brydens feel angst since learning both of the pensions they’ve lived on … Read More …

Former St. Clare’s Workers Sue Diocese of Albany Over Failed Pension

Former St. Clare’s Hospital workers have turned their anger over the loss of their pension benefits toward the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, which purchased the land where the hospital was built in the 1940s.   With help from the … Read More …

Attorney General Faults St. Clare’s Pension Management

The state Attorney General’s Office is backing efforts to remove the trustees of the troubled St. Clare’s Hospital pension fund, which has reduced or eliminated benefits to more than 1,100 former employees of the defunct Schenectady hospital.   In court … Read More …

Press Conference and Briefing, September 10, 2019: St Clare’s Advocates Announce New Step in Recouping of Pensions.

Counsel will be joined by St. Clare’s pensioners to announce the action taken earlier that morning against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany and other defendants. The organizations represent more than 100 former employees of St. Clare’s Hospital of Schenectady. … Read More …

Marc S. Ehrlich Named Pro Bono Publico Recipient

A lawyer in New York’s Capital Region, Ehrlich has worked to improve the financial lives of his pro bono clients and has mentored other lawyers in pro bono work for much of his 30-year career. He has spent countless hours … Read More …

“Unlivable and uninhabitable”: Historic apartment building Gray Gables condemned

Gray Gables was built by local millionaire William H. Miner in the 1920s. For the last few decades the complex has been used as affordable housing for working class and low-income families, but the rambling apartment building has been neglected, … Read More …

Apartments ordered to be vacated

The Town of Chazy has ordered the owners of the Gray Gables apartment buildings off Route 9 to vacate tenants from the premises by July 22 because of structural issues.   Michael Tetreault Jr., Chazy Code/Zoning Enforcement Officer, issued the … Read More …

Chazy apartment building deemed unsafe to live in

Everyone living in an apartment building in New York’s North Country needs to find a new place to live…quickly. Their town has declared the building unfit for people to live in.   Residents at the Gray Gables Apartments on Route … Read More …

Code enforcement officer: Gray Gables apartments ‘unfit for human occupancy’

The Gray Gables apartments in Chazy are “unfit for human occupancy,” according to Town of Chazy Code Enforcement Officer Michael Tetreault.   In a letter dated July 7 to the building’s owner, Fredrick Reus, Tetreault writes the decision comes after … Read More …