Speaker Keeps Promise; Presents $25,000 To Man For Turning In Statue-Buster
City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone followed through on a promise made last year in awarding a check worth $25,000 to Bryant Hamilton for providing information leading to an arrest and conviction of a man found guilty of vandalizing several religious statues in Queens and Brooklyn, including the desecration of a statuie of St. Pius X in Canarsie. Full Story