NYC Mayor gives up Mets & Yankees lux boxes in scandal of imperial excess

(AP) 1/6/09, "Senior Bloomberg aides had fought hard to get the luxury boxes, describing the perk in internal e-mails as

• "a big issue to the mayor" during negotiations with the teams in 2006." ( ***The NY Times reports it was specifically the METS box the Mayor wanted).

(AP): "That battle for the boxes only recently came to light as state and federal lawmakers launched investigations into how the teams and the administration went about making those deals." ...

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