Fun happenings in New York State
I would never live in New York State or Illinois -- I am a serial entrepreneur and the cost of doing business in either state is just to onerous. Plus that whole gun and crime thing...
Here's a three-fer for New York -- time to pull up the couch with a big bowl of popcorn.
First - from
Politicker:
William Boyland Jr. Indicted Yet Again
Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. just can�t catch a break.
Mr. Boyland, who was previously charged with soliciting bribes to pay his legal bills in an unrelated corruption trial, was indicted again last March for wire fraud charges stemming from alleged abuse of per diem requests. And he was just charged yet again today.
Second - from the
New York Post:
Crooked former Queens state Sen. Shirley Huntley wore FBI wire, may have snared more senators in sting operation
Crooked former Queens state Sen. Shirley Huntley secretly wore a wire for the feds and may have helped snared a fellow senator and two other elected officials in a corruption sting, new court papers reveal.
Huntley recorded nine people � including seven elected officials, a consultant and a staffer -- after being wired-up by the FBI last summer, according to documents filed today in Brooklyn Federal Court.
"Recordings of meetings [Huntley] held separately with State Senator #1 and two other elected officials did yield evidence useful to law enforcement authorities," wrote Brooklyn Assistant US Attorney Daniel Spector.
Lastly, a bit more - from the
New York City CBS affiliate:
Ex-Lawmaker Works With Feds To Bust Latest Allegedly Corrupt NYS Politician
CBS 2�s Marcia Kramer has learned another elected official is about to go down in the on-going corruption probe involving New York politicians and it turns out his colleague ratted him out.
The circus is back in Albany.
Fear and loathing were stalking the halls of the state capital on Friday. Bets were being place about the identity of the latest officials to fall from grace on corruption charges.
This last article says that the identity of the Senator will be released sometime next week. The article also notes two other corruption charges,
Queens Councilman Daniel Halloran as well as
State Senator Malcolm Smith. Seems to be a bit of corruption going around these days...
Oh - and buried below the fold on each of these stories is the Party Affiliation -- you guessed it -- Democrat.
Posted by DaveH at May 3, 2013 10:42 PM