The dimensions of this phenomenon were spelled out in last year's State Comptroller's Report.
Susan Combs, the state comptroller, has estimated that Texas will lose 111, 000 jobs in 2009.
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Tension rose further on May 5th with the publication of the state comptroller's annual report.
Burris, 71, is one of Illinois' most accomplished politicians, having served as state comptroller and attorney general.
Mayor David Dinkins. (Applause.) Governor David Paterson is here. (Applause.) State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
The city gets 9% of its tax revenues from Wall Street, the state 20%, according to the state comptroller.
Mr. Hevesi served two terms as New York City comptroller and held the state comptroller's position from 2003 through 2006.
Burris, 71, also a Democrat, served Illinois from 1979 to 1992, first as state comptroller and later as attorney general.
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The scandal has already resulted in other pleas of criminal guilt, including one by former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi.
The Knesset has ordered the state comptroller to investigate the circumstances surrounding the state prosecution's mishandling of the Yesh Din petition.
Days later, Alan Hevesi, the state comptroller, resigned and pleaded guilty to fraud for using state employees as his wife's personal chauffeurs.
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The New York state comptroller said Barad's package was too big, as did two HP shareholders in a March lawsuit over Fiorina's exit pay.
The New York State Comptroller just released its report for 2009.
"It's a collegial environment, " said Sleight, who led the 2006 investigation into former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi that resulted in one of Albany biggest corruption convictions.
An academic-turned-politician from Queens, Mr. Hevesi, 70 years old, served two terms as New York City comptroller before being elected state comptroller in 2002 by a close margin.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who oversees the New York State Common Retirement Fund, said "we were disappointed" that Apple didn't offer a plan to deliver cash to shareholders.
But both reports also cited failures and mistakes by Silver and his top staffers in a settlement that was reviewed by staffers from the Attorney General's Office and state Comptroller's Office.
Fitzgerald won the Republican primary against state Comptroller Loleta Didrickson despite last-minute appeals from Republican moderates who said that nominating a pro-gun, anti-abortion conservative could ruin any chances of defeating Moseley-Braun.
And just before that, state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, a white New York City Democrat, was forced from office in 2007 and imprisoned in one of the highest-level corruption cases in New York history.
John Sharp, the state comptroller and the Democratic candidate for that powerful post (the lieutenant-governor, under the constitution, has most power to make or break bills), faces a formidable Republican opponent in Rick Perry.
While the party could again embrace Rick Lazio, the former congressman defeated by Mr. Paladino in the gubernatorial primary, or Harry Wilson, who lost a close race for state comptroller, the Republican bench looks bare.
In response, PA Executive Director Pat Foye announced on Thursday that the agency would report overtime spending on a quarterly basis to its board and the New York state comptroller and appoint a committee to review spending.
Most notably, as the result of a lengthy investigation as attorney general, Mr. Cuomo prosecuted former New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who pleaded guilty to a felony corruption charge for his role in a pay-to-play pension scandal.
When former New York State comptroller Alan Hevesi pleaded guilty last year in a pension-fund investigation by then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, he negotiated an agreement in which prosecutors stipulated there was no evidence to charge his sons with any crimes.
Mr. Bloomberg and other elected officials have said they are deeply worried these problems could resurface when a larger number of voters head to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots for governor, Congress, state attorney general, state comptroller and the entire state Legislature.
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Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney is here in the house. (Applause.) Governor David Paterson is here. (Applause.) Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. (Applause.) State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is here. (Applause.) The Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg. (Applause.) Dr. George Campbell, Jr.
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Thomas DiNapoli, the state's comptroller, announced that his office would expedite an audit of the MTA's lease with Apple.
Later this week, Barney Frank, chairman of the House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee, will haul in state and federal regulators, as well as the comptroller of the currency and the chief of the Federal Trade Commission, for a hearing to discuss the financial services industry.
Hank Morris, the former top aide to former Democratic Comptroller Alan Hevesi, will be released from state prison by June 2 after serving two years in prison, according to Tuesday's decision by the state Parole Board.
Though regulators from the Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency, the SEC and myriad state and city agencies are all charged with overseeing banks, all were caught completely flat-footed by the troubles that hit the finance industry like a sledgehammer in 2008.
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