From the Queens Courier:After being indicted on six counts of assault for allegedly cutting his girlfriend, Senator Hiram Monserrate has new counsel.
Monserrate has chosen Joseph Tacopina to help him prepare his defense for the fast approaching June 26 trial date.
In 2007, Tacopina represented Queens City Councilmember Dennis Gallagher after he was charged with rape. Gallagher took a no-jail plea on lesser charges.
I guess Tacopina is the go-to guy for the violent lawbreakers of the City Council. I wonder if Monster-Rat dialed the Pink Man for a referral. I wonder when Brafman will get retained...
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I'll say it again.At the last minute he'll take the plea. no integrity,no balls racist coward...........look up his previous dealings as a founding member o the latinos officer assoc.
This certainly makes me believe that when a sitting or former member of the council wants to confess, the attorney to pay is Tacopina.
This now leaves the question: Who's picking up the tab for this?
Birds of a feather flock together.
Tacopina is probably one of the most high-profile criminal defense lawyer in the country. He's had lots of celebrity clients.
I'll bet that council slush fund covers part of these wayward councilmen's legal defense!
And Parkside pases the hat for the rest.
Would you post that attorney's address and phone number.
I'm thinking of raping and cutting my date!
He'll step down and collect his pension and get a job with the parkside group. What a great city we live in! When will the PEOPLE
wake up and say they have had enough! Spanish women defending a
man who cut a woman? How will we ever go forward when groups like that set womens rights back 100 years! This is America, not South
America. You can't beat, rape, and cut women without punishment! (Even if you're a Politician)
Spanish women defending a
man who cut a woman? How will we ever go forward when groups like that set womens rights back 100 years! This is America, not South
America. You can't beat, rape, and cut women without punishment! (Even if you're a Politician)
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Oh yes you can. Look how Muslem women turned back the clock a thousand years.
Popular culture that encourages otherwise intelligent women to marry for money.
Where is NOW? Like the relationship between community preservationists and developers, instead of fighting things, they are finding excueses to do nothing and say less.
Progressives, except for machine approved issues like immigrants or gay rights, are in big trouble.
Tacopina NEVER represented Gallagher.
Just curious. How much does a guy like Tacopina charge? This is going to cost Hiram what? 4 figures? 5 figures? 6 figures?
It's ok, let's remember that he passed his hat around the floor of the Senate...
I know his accountant: I know no details but rest assured, this guy makes big bucks.
One of the top lawyers in the city with lots of big cases.
You can bet the machine is paying big bucks (or should I say calling in chits) to buy this boy for their boy.
They have a lot of money invested in the Rat.
A nice front man for the tweeded histpanic bloc and they figure the public, like term limits and an incident many years ago with Officer Manton, it will be forgotten.
photo caption:
"And this little pink piggy raped a granny ..."
Benjamin Brafman was Gallagher's attorney
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