Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel helped win a prison transfer for
a convicted pol famously accused of billing taxpayers $ 177 for a bagel and a soda, from a squalid Brooklyn jail...
Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel helped win a prison transfer for former NYC Councilman Larry Seabrook,
a convicted pol famously accused of billing taxpayers $ 177 for a bagel and a soda, from a squalid Brooklyn jail to a «Club Fed» - style lockup.
Albany does nothing faster than stilling
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Not exact matches
The list of top
pols convicted or ushered out of office under a cloud of charges — Eliot Spitzer, Malcolm Smith, Pedro Espada, Alan Hevesi — only seems to grow.
In other words, the standard used to
convict Silver could include normal interactions between constituents and
pols.
On Thursday Bharara's office fired back, noting that since 2007 at least 18 current or former Albany
pols have been
convicted of corruption charges and stating that Bharara has an obligation to speak out.
But prosecutors had claimed during the trial that once - powerful
pol could be
convicted for helping arrange a meeting for AbTech Industries with the state Department of Health — while the company was paying his ne'er - do - well son $ 10,000 per month.
And the list of lesser state and city
pols arrested or
convicted for corruption in recent years runs to the dozens.
US Attorney Preet Bharara has been targeting the retirement pay of legislators he's
convicted, rightly calling it a «galling injustice» that crooked
pols continue to collect cushy pensions until «their dying day.»