Oct. 15, birthdays for Penny Marshall, Tito Jackson, Jim Palmer
Brooklyn Today
Good afternoon, Brooklyn. Today is the 288th day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1910, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Brooklyn Politicians in Racetrack Scandal.” The article focused on Republican district leaders at the time allegedly handling a “boodle” fund. “Several prominent Brooklyn politicians will be involved in the racetrack bribery scandal when the legislative graft committee resumes its investigation at the City Hall next Wednesday,” the Eagle reported. “The indictment of former Sen. Frank Gardner is declared to be only the beginning of what will eventually be the greatest expose of the methods that were resorted to by the lobbyists at Albany to suppress legislation…”