From the Daily News:Cash is king for Controller John Liu’s mayoral campaign.
While most campaign contributors write checks to their chosen candidates, records show that Liu has received 895 donations in cash — far more than other candidates.
The donations, totaling $65,000, are worth $121,240 with the city’s generous matching funds program — and the haul is raising red flags for watchdogs.
“With the campaign’s funny money issues, it’s unfathomable that so many contributions are in cash,” said Dick Dadey, of Citizens Union, a government watchdog group. “Cash is not traceable or verifiable.”
Liu is under scrutiny in the wake of the convictions Thursday of two campaign aides charged with funneling illegal contributions through straw donors.
Liu has not been charged in the case but law enforcement sources said Friday that the investigation into Liu’s campaign is continuing.
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Is it really that hard to figure out he has most immigrant donors, donors that don't have bank accounts. Also many working class as well.
This should be the nail in the coffin on his bid for mayor
Put that son of a bank thief in jail!
Johnny's daddy, Joseph Liu, was convicted on federal bank fraud charges (Flushing's Great Eastern bank).
If Liu's (mostly cash) donations have been deemed illegally obtained ...doesn't Mr. Comptroller to return them...or will he get let off the hook?
The bottom line is that
Liu defrauded NYC's matching fund program...directly, or through his convicted confederates. He is responsible for their actions.
Clap this cousin of Tommy Huang in irons!
Maybe some of your "immigrant donors" don't even have green cards. That makes THEM GUILTY , as accessories to the crime.
A foreign national CANNOT contribute to an American political campaign. It is forbidden by federal law!
It looks like there's been some (overseas?) money laundering going on here...and that's a definite NO-NO!
A thought:
Maybe one of the laundering centers was run through the deceased Cecilia Chang of St. John's University. Harrington just resigned from his post at SJU...didn't he?
The building of their Dr. Sen Yat Sen Center cost far less than the millions that were raised for it. Didn't the notorious criminal developer Tommy Huang have something to do with those early fund raising efforts?
This all goes very deep. Likely there's an international (with roots in Taipei?) mass collusion network involved here.
The FBI is still in the throws of delicately peeling the onion...layer by layer.
They'll get to the bottom of it all, and "Mr. Big" will be found.
Liu is just a small dimpling following "Biggie's" orders.
This situation appears very "James Bondian...Spectre-like...Dr. No"...the existence of some Oriental mastermind's plot...LOL!!
Wo Fat (Mr. Big) pulls Liu's strings. Book 'em all Danno!
Wait until Jenny and Oliver roll over on Liu...
in trying to cut a deal with the feds to shorten their jail time.
Let's hope that they both stay OK 'til then.
The Taiwanese tongs might close in on them, before they have a chance to rat out their boss.
Day by day...it's getting very interesting.
If I were a soap opera writer, i'd submit a script to HBO pulled from these headlines.
Until it's over, I'm "kvelling" at Liu's final "come-uppance". Bye, bye mayoralty, for now.
And that's SOOOOH GOOD for NYC!
None of these Huang-Liu family members can be trusted! Tommy and John are said to be cousins.
I wonder...
what has John Choe to say about his former boss?
That boy, with his "One Flushing" organization needs some watching too.
BTW,
long fragmented Flushing can never be made into "one". The Network For Inter-goup Harmony failed at that task. Why repeat the same strokes...just to create a job for one's self?
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings horses and all the kings men will never put Humpty Dumpty together again".
Why is cash allowed to be accepted? It promotes wrongdoing.
Jenny Hou should just rat out her former boss and confess that it was Liu Liu's doing. How can she be so naive.
John Liu should be ashamed of himself. He should not be running for higher office. Wake Up People
This little piss ant will never become mayor.
Liu is cooked. Stick a fork in him.
But he will remain arrogant 'til the end, just like his Taiwanese cousin Tommy Huang.
He's not aging well.
The stress must have put at least 5 years on him...
not to mention about 15 lbs.
How appealing will he be now, at the Farrington Men's Sauna
Maybe John's become a chubby chaser.
What a piece of Taiwanese trash...crooked like his lot.
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