Why won’t the Times name ALL the thieves it has ID’d up in Albany?

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Key points

• The Times points to (but, again, won't name) dozens of legislators still embezzling $300 here and $50 there.
• But what regarding all the other pols indulging in a scheme that seems not just widespread in Albany but practically universal?
• It's pennyante stuff, but then again the crew up in Albany is pretty low-rent.
• Just wait for what games we'll (eventually) learn they play with the taxpayer-funded campaign cash they lately awarded themselves, additionally in the name of "reform."
• The paper reports in great detail on how state Sen.

It sure looks like The New York Times has some weird agenda when it reports on apparent petty theft involving at least 130 state legislators – but only names one. Who's already been voted out of office.

Meanwhile, the paper reports in great detail on how state Sen. Jessica Ramos looks to have double-billed for travel expenses – getting reimbursed for hotel bills and train tickets by both her campaign accounts and the state. It covers qualified work-related expenses for electeds.

Bad Jessica! If she did it, let her face the full consequences of the law.

Sure looks like a bid to create Ramos – a longtime Working Families Party stalwart, now loathed by her fellow Democrats after endorsing Andrew Cuomo for mayor and defeated in her last primary consequently – the sacrificial goat for epidemic corruption.

Albany's "per diem" system – paying legislators a fixed sum to cover their expenses for time in the capital on official business – was abused for decades, but reforms and a couple of hefty pay raises supposedly closed the biggest loopholes.

Hah! The Times points to (but, again, won't name) dozens of legislators still embezzling $300 here and $50 there.

It's pennyante stuff, but then again the crew up in Albany is pretty low-rent. Obtain opinions and commentary from our columnists.

Remember, these are mostly individuals who could never dream of making real capital in the private economy, eager to grab every stray dollar they can while the going's good.

Meanwhile, the Times can't bring the hammer down on one official enemy of the hard left while ignoring the evidence that the whole barrel of apples is rotten. Let's see what they're hiding and who they're covering for.

Taken together, the developments around why won't the Times name ALL the thieves it has ID'd up point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.