Disgraced former state Sen. Shirley Huntley is days away from freedom, but the fate of nine people she caught on a federal wire still hangs in the balance.
Huntley is due to be released from a federal halfway house on May 31 after completing 10 months of her one-year sentence in a corruption case. She pleaded guilty last year to stealing $87,700 in taxpayer money from her nonprofit — cash she spent on shopping sprees with Assemblywoman Vivian Cook.
To save herself, Huntley agreed to secretly record fellow politicians and two political operatives at her Queens home, where she was recuperating from a broken ankle.
In June, July and August 2012, Huntley hosted fellow lawmakers in her den, catching them on recording devices hidden in a water bottle, a key chain and a cigarette case.
It was unclear why the feds focused on the nine guests, but at least four had links to the tainted bid by the Aqueduct Entertainment Group to build a racino at the Queens racetrack. The feds reportedly directed Huntley to ask them about Aqueduct.
With the arrest last week of one of the group, Rubin Wills, the “Huntley Nine” are asking: Who’s next?
11 comments:
Where's the outcry from the residents of Jamaica?
Eric Adams has to be high on the list. 30K missing from his 100 blacks who care only about themselves group, the Racino and now shady goings on a Bklyn borough hall. This guy has more teflon than Gotti.....
Meeks! Oh please let it be Meeks!
congressman weeks,he's pals with most of the 9 that got busted,like malcolm smith.Being a bipartsan pal of Grimm makes him a huge target.
meeks,I Mean
I certainly hope Meeks is next, this has been a long time coming for this majorly corrupt official. They might go for the small potatoes and go after Assembly Member Vivian Cook.
Outcry from Jamaica residents, are you kidding, these folks are the one who put each and every single one of these crooks in office, sometimes two, three times. Plus they are a very apathetic bunch.
Joe, all of the bashing of Jamaica that you have done over the months about its thug representation, is all coming to light. Great job. Now if only the mindset of its voters can be changed!
Why only nine? aren't there more Albany pols on the take?
who are the other eight?
June 2 -- Jury selection in the Malcolm Smith; Daniel Halloran fiasco
Some of the participants it has been said might have to go in the "witness protection" program.
Should be interesting!
Maybe she'll rat out John Liu...the shifty SOB who didn't know what his chief fund raiser staffers were doing.
Imagine...the NYC Comptroller who didn't know what was going on in his own campaign.
Wanna buy the Queensboro bridge, anyone?
Watch out! Johnny boy has been making the rounds of churches and civic groups. Does he really think he can unseat Tony Avella?
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