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Article: CAMPAIGN DONATIONS GO IN, MILLIONS COME OUT; BUSINESSMAN BEHIND PROJECT GIVES TO PATAKI, WHO ARRANGES GRANTS.(SERIES: New York's Slush Funds)(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2004
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Byline: Michelle Breidenbach Staff writer
Gov. George Pataki missed Woodstock '69, but he's been back to the garden twice since then.
Unlike the half-million people who flocked to Max Yasgur's muddy field, the governor brought money.
Pataki, Sen. John Bonacic and the late Assemblyman Jake Gunther came to the historic site in 2000 to announce nearly $15 million in state grants to help a wealthy Sullivan County businessman turn the site into a tourist attraction. Pataki returned this summer, four years later, to toss some ceremonial dirt.
Alan Gerry sold his Cablevision company to Time-Warner for about $2.7 billion and donated millions ...