Why wont the Times name ALL the thieves it has IDd up in Albany?

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.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, which covers qualified work-related expenses for electeds.Bad Jessica! If she did it, let her face the full consequences of the law.But what about all the other pols indulging in a scheme that seems not just widespread in Albany but practically universal?Sure looks like a bid to make 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 as a result — 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.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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Just wait for what games we’ll (eventually) learn they play with the taxpayer-funded campaign cash they recently awarded themselves, also in the name of “reform.” Remember, these are mostly people who could never dream of making real money in the private economy, eager to grab every stray dollar they can while the going’s good.The Times can’t bring the hammer down on one official enem...