Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Seabrook to slammer for 5 years

From the Politicker:

Councilman Larry Seabrook, who was convicted last July on 9 counts of wire and fraud charges, was sentenced in federal court today to 5 years in prison. Upon his conviction, Mr. Seabrook was immediately expelled from the legislative chamber.

“Councilman Larry Seabrook sacrificed the public trust on the altar of greed,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. “He was a flagrant and serial abuser of City Council discretionary funds in a far too familiar New York tale of corruption,” Mr. Bharara said of Mr. Seabrook. “Today’s sentence finally vindicates the interests of the constituents whose trust he so casually violated by his fraud. We remain committed to making those who are corrupted by power pay the price, and the public can expect more arrests of politicians who have not learned this lesson.”

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

is not nyc democrat dictatorship grand ?

Anonymous said...

Hooray!!! What a bum.

Anonymous said...

He'll be back. Maybe even go for governor.

Dems don't care about right or wrong, just their political party.

Anonymous said...

One down, 51 to go. (Yes, I know there are 51 members of the City Council, but Seabrook has already been replaced)

Anonymous said...

It's time to examine Toby Stavisky's "generous" (flagrant?) distribution of her discretionary funds to one particular organization.

She's doled out a whopping portion to the
"North Flushing Senior Center" over many, many years.
It's the largest amount given to any of her groups.

Everybody else gets leftover table scraps.

WTF is going on in that place?

Anonymous said...

I'm for following Muslim law on this.

Cut off this thief's hands!

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry to hear this. He was one of my professors in John Jay. While I can't comment on his guilt or innocence, I can tell you that he is a very nice, personable and articulate man. He has to pay for his crimes now, but I wish him nothing but the best.

Anonymous said...

He's a wolf in sheeps clothing

Anonymous said...

He'll get sprung in a year...

Anonymous said...

Come on, look at that picture and folks can't say he's NOT crooked? His smile is as phony as a 3 dollar bill. But gullible spineless people just keep voting these assholes back into office.. "Oh he's so nice I will vote for him" What bullshit!!!