Leibell, R - Carmel — who pleaded guilty in December to obstructing a
federal grand jury that was investigating
whether he extorted cash payments from lawyers working in Putnam County and failed to report on his income
tax returns tens of thousands of
dollars in cash payments he received from those lawyers — was to be sentenced in
federal court in White Plains this coming Monday.
These schools are sharing $ 5 billion in
federal tax dollars in a massive, three - year rescue effort, but no one nationally is tracking how the money is spent and no one can say
whether the influx of cash will end up helping kids.