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Scamming State Pension Funds is Big Bidness

05.01.09 -- 5:13PM
By Josh Marshall

More connections emerge in the broadening array of pay-to-play state pension fund scams. As Andrew Cuomo, who's investigating the case, puts it: "This is sort of like when you pull a thread on the sweater and that one thread starts to unravel the entire fabric. We're pulling threads and it turns out the other end of the thread is in New Mexico or Connecticut or Illinois or in California."

We pull some of the threads here.

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