“Two clips of Quinn show that she lied about whether she used money from the council slush fund to dole out district plums to council members. Quinn, as we recall, initially claimed she used the money to cover mid-year budget gaps.”

“Christine C. Quinn took her post in 2006 with the promise of bringing more transparency to spending but instead has presided during a time pockmarked by a persistent scandal.”

“I was obviously very deeply troubled when I found out about this information. I had no knowledge of it.  I did not know this was the practice.” (Christine Quinn answers a question about her office’s allocation of millions of dollars to fake charities.)

“Quinn said she recognized that her interest in using the council’s discretionary funds for political purposes contradicts her reform agenda and push for ‘transparency.”

AFTER: “Did I think, as Speaker, having the [reserve] money to give out through the year might give me political leverage? Of course I did. I’m not going to lie to people that I didn’t think that.”

BEFORE: “No. These monies were largely used to fix errors and for mid-year budget requests.” (Christine Quinn’s response to the question, “Did you use any of this money to reward Council Members or for favors?”)