- Two local Dems tax-$$ embezzlement ‘shopping spree’, NY Post (Feb. 2, 2013)
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Cook denies ties to Huntley fraud scheme, Queens Chronicle (Feb. 7, 2013)
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Assemblymember Vivian Cook under fire for plot of land purchased by her nonprofit, The Queens Courier (Feb. 21, 2013)
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Pol’s mum on illegal contribution, NY Daily News (March 28, 2008) (Assemblywoman Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica Estates, Rochdale Village) accepted $1,555 in donations between 1999 and 2006 from the Evelyn Douglin Center for Serving People in Need. Meanwhile, the Daily News has learned Cook obtained $30,000 in state funds for the agency in 2006 and 2007.)
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Stop the Slush, NY Post (July 17, 2011) (Assemblywoman Vivian Cook (D-Queens) founded the Rockaway Boulevard Local Development Corp. RBLDC got $2.5 million from the Port Authority to improve a stretch of Rockaway Boulevard. It spent $560,500 to buy a still-vacant parcel of land and $255,625 on street sweeping).