Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills is the latest elected official to stand trial on corruption charges. In laying out their case Wednesday, prosecutors said he pocketed thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to use on clothing, meals, and even construction supplies. NY1's Bobby Cuza filed the following report.
Even before he was first elected to the City Council, Ruben Wills had already begun a scheme to defraud taxpayers, prosecutors said, stealing $19,000 in state grant money awarded to his Queens non-profit, and $11,500 in public campaign finance funds.
At opening arguments Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General Travis Hill said that for Wills, "stealing taxpayer funds was business as usual."
The trial is now finally underway after numerous delays, including Wills missing court appearances with an undisclosed illness.
He faces up to seven years in prison on six charges, including fraud and grand larceny, all of which he is vigorously contesting.
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And yet this criminal still collects a de Blasio inflated council member salary and sits on the small business committee.
You know this idiot is using the same excuse as De Faustio for his defense. Claiming ignorance and it was bad judgement on his part. What an amateur.
This piece of slime will walk too.
Why is it that the Staviskys, mother and son, are never investigated? are they really squeaky clean?
He has a get out of jail free card.
I find it quite interesting, I have read numerous stories of the alleged transgressions Wills committed.
Yet there is never any mention of the Councilman's political party affiliation.
I was just wondering...
He will share a cell with Silver,oh wait!!
I love it. The "He's not a Harvard graduate" defense.
"We hang the petty thieves and elect the great ones to public office." ——Aesop
This exclusionary, party-machine-failed duopoly will never end, folks. That's why free walking criminals Sheldon Silver, Dean Skelos & son, and Burgermeister de Blasio are all off the hook, and also the reason why a worthless, 'Shithead Chuck' Schumer sycophant like Preet Bharara was fired by Trump, because he is as useless as the corrupt court systems of New York (and beyond), that only excoriate and imprison the petty-and-powerless at the bottom of all crime and corruption, instead of ridding all systemic corruption at the top where it continues to multiply and breed like stinkweed!
"We hang the petty thieves and elect the great ones to public office." ——Aesop
This exclusionary, party-machine-failed duopoly will never end, folks. That's why free walking criminals Sheldon Silver, Dean Skelos & son, and Burgermeister de Blasio are all off the hook, and also the reason why a worthless, 'Shithead Chuck' Schumer sycophant like Preet Bharara was fired by Trump, because he is as useless as the corrupt court systems of New York (and beyond), that only excoriate and imprison the petty-and-powerless at the bottom of all crime and corruption, instead of ridding all systemic corruption at the top where it continues to multiply and breed like stinkweed!
Yesterday, July 10, 2017, at 7:00 p.m., two black male cronies of Rubin Wills rang my doorbell in Ozone Park, and were petitioning to get this openly practicing criminal on the ballot. I told the elderly gentlemen that I don't reward criminals, especially when they have already betrayed public trust, with imipunity.
So, what did this Rubin Wills sycophant and grandpa retort? ❝Well, he's a nice guy and I should know——I worked for him.❞ To which I replied: ❝It's impossible to remain unbiased when one's paycheck is beholden to the criminal enterprise itself.❞ And, then I followed with: ❝No thank you. Because, everyone else got the memo about honest, ethical leadership (that leads by example), way back in kindergarten. Rubin Wills devalues honesty itself and shouldn't even be allowed to petition when he is currently under investigation.❞
Only in the 'UNITED STATES of AMNESIA and ENTERTAINMENT,' can a politician (not public servant!), like Wills push for reelection when his record of public trust has already been DOA!
That's why I no longer worry about what is ILLEGAL in this regressive nation of 'KLEPTOCRATIC KAKISTOCRACY-PLUTOCRACY and OLIGARCHY'——I stil worry about what is STILL LEGAL!
IN conclusion, only a Great Depression and/or WWIII will wake up most sleepwalking Americans to the fact that there IS no substitute for a revolutionary mass movement. Arm yourselves with the truth, 'SHEEPLE,' and prepare for another bloody battle, ironically and tragically the ONLY action to 'BANISH-and-BOYCOTT' NAKED GREED, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder [OCD] (two forms of mental illness for which there is no cure).
❝A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, theives and traitors are not victims...but accomplices.❞ —George Orwell
❝The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.❞ —George Orwell
❝Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.❞ —Frank Zappa
We are ALL brainwashed, conditioned and socially engineered 'SHEEPLE,' herded by an unfree police state of epic, humanitarian (and ecological) fail!
In simpler parlance, our shabby and grubby society is on the final leg of societal collapse, as the crooked-and-corrupt politicians (not public servants), continue to betray public trust with a vengeful impunity that is unprecedented, to date—and, the public be eternally duped, bilked, scammed, SCARRED and damned!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
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