From the NY Times:
Two days after a political corruption scandal rocked Albany, a new, unrelated bribery scheme emerged on Thursday, adorned with a can-you-top-this quality: For more than a year, a sitting state legislator wore a wire intended to entrap at least one of his colleagues.
The secret recordings helped lead to the arrest of Eric A. Stevenson, a Democratic state assemblyman representing parts of the South Bronx, who was charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan with accepting more than $22,000 in bribes to help developers open adult day care centers in his district. Mr. Stevenson was also accused of introducing legislation to block competing developers from building new centers for three years.
He seemed keenly aware of the risk of getting caught, as so many of his colleagues in Albany had been before, according to a criminal complaint released on Thursday.
“Be careful of those things man, the recorders and all those things,” he was recorded saying. “A lot of guys,” he continued, were “working to put a lot of people away, man, believe that.”
Mr. Stevenson’s wariness was well founded: his conversations were being recorded by two cooperating witnesses, including Assemblyman Nelson L. Castro, who had agreed to work with investigators as part of a deal to avoid prosecution on state perjury charges. Mr. Castro agreed to resign once his cooperation led to an arrest; he announced his departure on Thursday afternoon.
3 comments:
WTF--
this is beginning to resemble an "I-Hop" restaurant.
They're flipping corrupt pols quicker than flapjacks
--at least one a day!
Halloran, Smith and Tabone began building up the, now almost teetering, mile high pancake stack.
NYC isn't the only sewer that needs to be cleaned out--upstate is a cesspool of turds that need flushing.
Ooops--did I say Flushing?
While we're on the subject, that is priority location #1 for flushing out shady opportunists.
Begin with community Board 7!
They are the root of the sludgery.
including Assemblyman Nelson L. Castro, who had agreed to work with investigators as part of a deal to avoid prosecution on state perjury charges. Mr. Castro agreed to resign once his cooperation led to an arrest; he announced his departure on Thursday afternoon.
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So not only is the guy a RAT, but he lied under oath while he was an Assemblyman? In my book that is akin to treason. I would rather have my assemblymen on the take anyday than have a RAT like that representing me! The indictment is sealed so we don't even know what the case is about!
Wait till the list of people seeking the republican party's nod comes out and how much they paid.
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