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Andy’s 60G H’wood flight

Last Updated: 11:56 AM, February 3, 2012

Posted: 1:32 AM, February 3, 2012

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo got a $60,000 ride to Hollywood late last year for a big bucks fund-raiser from the brother of one of his vanquished political opponents.

Stephen L. Green, the city’s biggest office landlord and brother of former city Public Advocate Mark Green, gave Cuomo the use of a jet to attend a Bel Air fund-raiser, where glitterati ponied up $12,500 each to thank him for pushing to make gay marriage legal.

The cost of the flight was reported as an in-kind campaign contribution, records show.

Green’s company also tapped a top Albany lobbying firm in 2011 to help win Cuomo’s approval for a three-year extension of a tax-rate reduction benefiting real-estate investment trusts.

“Receiving a $60,000 gift from a business which lobbies is perfectly legal under the current campaign- finance law; that’s why we support Gov. Cuomo’s attempts to change this law,” said Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

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