From the NY Post:
State Sen. John Sampson, of Brooklyn, was arrested by the FBI this morning and charged with embezzling $440,000 between 1998 and 2008, funneling some of the cash into his unsuccessful 2005 campaign to become Brooklyn district attorney — and chillingly using a mole in the federal prosecutor's office to try and identify witnesses against him so he could arrange to "take them out."
At a press conference announcing the veteran politician's arrest, Eastern District US Attorney Loretta Lynch revealed the disturbing allegations that Sampson had a Justice Department mole in her office to keep tabs on the criminal probe into his activities — and leak information about the identify of federal informants.
"He did attempt to trade on a personal relationship with an administrative employee [of the Justice Department]...to gain information," Lynch said this morning.
The feds charge that Sampson explained to an unnamed real estate associate that he was attempting to discover the identities of federal witnesses in the Brooklyn US Attorney's mortgage fraud probe into his activities.
In one ominous exchange, Sampson allegedly told the real estate associate that if they could learn the identity of the federal informants, that "Sampson could arrange to 'take them out,'" the feds said today.
That Brooklyn federal employee has since been terminated, but Lynch declined to offer details about an internal probe that followed — saying aspects of the investigation into Sampson's alleged wrongdoing is ongoing.
7 comments:
We need to make the penalties for corrupt politicians much higher.
Sadly the criminals write the laws, so odds are it won't happen.
Because THEY ARE political mafiosi!
Look at La Famiglia Di Vallone, who have been running their Astoria turf, since the days of Charlie "the judge" Vallone!
Think of how Queens will be f----d in the butt if Don Pietro "junior' Vallone becomes borough president.
VOTE FOR AVELLA...our only hope for real change!
Will the Feds charge Sampson with conspiracy to commit murder? There's a disbarred attoreny doing jail time for saying, "We need to kill this witness" and doing nothing else.
"VOTE FOR AVELLA...our only hope for real change!"
Tony has "Issues" Too:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/tony-pig-idea-article-1.1182350
The others who are running against Avella have MEGA ISSUES. You pays yer money 'n you takes your choice.
Now we know what Queens is composed of...uninformed voters like yourself.
RU a GOP suck up, maybe?
Groan...you're doomed if you are.
A Dem will take the seat, in any case.
They aren't?
Too bad that they're not really mafia.
In that way, one could have always hoped for a rival family, to put out a contract on one of their fellow scum buns.
Then everybody could just sit it out...while the crem-de-la-crap sorted it all out...rubbed each other out.
Afterwards, the feds would only have to clean up the mess, then toss the survivors of the fray into the clink.
Nice...neat...and a break for the taxpayers.
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