Wow. This isn’t just flames, this is a four-alarm fire of political corruption.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed bribery and extortion charges on Tuesday against 70 current and former employees of the New York City Housing Authority, a sweeping indictment of a troubled organization.
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In describing the scheme, Mr. Williams said dozens of employees, including superintendents and assistant superintendents, had taken more than $2 million in bribes from contractors seeking to do work at apartment buildings throughout the city’s five boroughs.
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Prosecutors said that the scheme revealed Tuesday involved small-dollar repairs — under $10,000 — to things like windows and plumbing, deals that do not go through competitive bidding.
According to the NYPost:
The defendants, all of whom were working for NYCHA at the time, sought between 10% and 20% of the contracts’ values — or kickbacks of between $500 and $2,000 — though some asked for higher amounts, authorities said.
This story is still developing. And all suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
In case you were wondering: according to the Justice Department, this is, indeed, the “largest number of federal bribery charges” issued in one day.
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It might be the cynical part of me, but when I read this my first thought was “hmm, is this a sort of false flag operation to show just how well the federal government was chasing criminal activity”?
False flag, because at the same time the feds are ignoring things like some of the proof that the 2020 election really WAS full of corruption. In my city of Muskegon, MI they showed the totally criminal voter registration activity done by paid workers from out of state.
Of course we also need to remember that the charges against former president Trump over documents kept at his estate have been filed and are winding their way through the DOJ. The same type of documents kept at the Biden estate, in a garage, were dismissed as being no big deal.
While I am not a true Trump supporter, since I live in Michigan, a swing state, I cannot afford to issue a sort of protest vote for a third party, in fear that it will allow the Democrat candidate to win.
Here is a link to one of the articles about the corruption in Muskegon, which shows that our Democrat AG chose to not issue charges over, saying that the FBI was involved and so she deferred to them.
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/muskegon-fake-voter-applications-probed-2020-referred-fbi-nessel-says