“The charges we unsealed today demonstrate once again that a ‘show me the money’ culture seems to pervade every level of New York government,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara
I know that's your favorite mantra, but if you read the article, following the money trail, is exactly what the investigation is about. Now, what should we be demanding next? Roast beef? I like roast beef,
I know that's your favorite mantra, but if you read the article, following the money trail, is exactly what the investigation is about. Now, what should we be demanding next? Roast beef? I like roast beef,
my point was THE PUBLIC that doesn't pay too much attention
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
One assemblyman charged, one resigns amid bribery scandal
NEW YORK (AP) - A New York State Assemblyman in the Bronx has been charged in a bribery scandal along with four other defendants, on the same day a fellow Bronx State Assemblyman says he is resigning from office.
State Assemblyman Nelson Castro officially announced his resignation Thursday, saying in a statement to the media: "On July 31, 2009, I was indicted by a Bronx County Grand Jury for committing perjury in a 2008 civil matter, held prior to my election to the Assembly. I appreciate the seriousness of my misconduct."
Castro's statement continues saying after his indictment he "agreed to cooperate with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and, later, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with various investigations aimed at rooting out public corruption."
Castro says one result of the investigation was, in fact, the complaint unsealed against Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, charging him with various federal crimes. "I continue to cooperate with State and Federal authorities in this prosecution and in other investigations," Castro said.
Stevenson, of the Bronx, faces bribery conspiracy and other charges after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Bronx County District Attorney Robert Johnson say he drafted and sponsored legislation in exchange for more than $22,000 in cash and campaign contributions.
Bharara and Johnson allege Stevenson took campaign contributions from four individuals who were interested in operating and constructing adult day care centers in the Bronx, and paid Stevenson to sponsor, and ultimately cause to be enacted, legislation that would declare a three-year moratorium on the construction of adult day care centers in New York City, but from which their current centers would be exempted.
They should just move the Assembly and Senate chambers to one of the state prisons and get it over with already.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
These are the filthy, vile cesspoolians who decided they had the authority to infringe on New Yorkers' constitutional rights, in the middle of the night. This is why we have a second amendment in the first place.
These are the filthy, vile cesspoolians who decided they had the authority to infringe on New Yorkers' constitutional rights, in the middle of the night. This is why we have a second amendment in the first place.
With a name like "Castro", you're just ASKING for trouble!! Just saying....
DemocRat Wears a Wire to Rat out his Fellow Crooked Politicians
New York is ruled by a criminal class whose motto is, 'Where's mine?' and whose members expect the answer in cash' -- and top elected leaders are shamefully enabling the rampant corruption. The Bronx state assemblyman's corruption scandal proves politics can sink to new lows, as politicians with rap sheets are allowed to work in Albany just to catch other crooked pols. Nelson Castro worked undercover to expose other corrupt politicians. Nelson Castro, the Bronx state assemblyman at the center of the latest political corruption scandal — the one who wore a wire to rat out his fellow crooked pols — has an amazingly checkered history. http://xrepublic.tv/node/2833
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The governor of New York on Tuesday proposed new legal powers to tackle corrupt politicians, following the announcement last week of bribery charges against lawmakers in the US state.
Governor Andrew Cuomo said the crackdown would raise public corruption crimes above regular white collar crimes.
It comes the week after state lawmakers were ensnared in two separate federal probes, including a state senator accused of trying to bribe his way onto the Republican ballot for New York City’s upcoming mayoral vote.
Cuomo’s proposed new laws would expand definitions of public corruption, toughen jail sentences for people misusing public funds.
They would also bar anyone convicted of such crimes from holding elected or civil office or receiving state funding or contracts of any kind.
The new class of crimes would include bribing a pubic servant, corrupting the government and failing to report a bribe.
“Preventing public corruption is essential to ensuring that government works and can effectively keep the public’s trust,” Cuomo said.
“When they (public servants) break the law, they also break the public trust that the people have placed in government.”
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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