From the Daily News:
Without naming de Blasio, (Harendra) Singh stood in court and said he “gave and raised tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to an elected New York City official in exchange for efforts by that official…and other city officials to obtain official action from a New York City agency that would benefit myself and restaurants I owned,” court papers show.
A criminal information filed by the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney states a “senior aide” arranged a meeting with an agency head “to pressure the agency to make its proposed settlement terms more favorable to Singh.”
Further down:
During his Oct. 17, 2016 plea, Singh for the first time spelled out his intentions in clear pay-to-play terms: “I gave these donations to the elected official in exchange for efforts by that official and other city officials to obtain a lease renewal from the City agency for my restaurant on terms that were favorable to me."
After receiving the donations, de Blasio personally contacted the head of the agency dealing with Singh's lease and asked her to handle the matter. (de Blasio aide Emma) Wolfe also got personally involved.
The tweet below comes from Reality Based Educator in response to this story:
If de Blasio donor pleaded guilty to bribing de Blasio, why isn't the guy on the other end of the bribe (i.e., de Blasio) going to jail?
Good question.
Good question is right. Would be lovely to see the faux progressive (Neo-liberal really) receive approoriate comeuppance.
ReplyDeleteI think we would all rather have seen this happen to mike bloomberg,
ReplyDeleteBloimberg bought his pols legally. He would give millions to every senator in Albany, then wait 3 months before asking for legislation from the whole senate. You see it's illegal if it's one pol but it's perfectly fine if it's an entire legislative body.
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ReplyDeleteWe live in a fascist jurisdiction, NY state & USA. The weak link in the fascist enterprise
Is its called legal system. It promotes and sustains double standards for "justice" in the the neo-Orwellian sense of the word.
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ReplyDeleteKeep smoking all that weed, its having a wonderful effect on your ability to reason.
I got a lot of bigger fish to fry than to worry about Bill getting in trouble. Ya know, things like Danielson and vindictive principals.
ReplyDelete8:07, If we Blasio was gone and Letitia James was mayor, maybe we would get a decent Chancellor and we could fix some of those issues.
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Oh really? Hiring newbies? Im an ATR. Been looking for a job in Staten Island for 16 years. Im already hired? I have a good record? What about the 1500 ATRs?
ReplyDeleteNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Parents were furious to discover they were unaware that a student had allegedly been caught with knives at a school in Queens.
ReplyDeleteThere are no metal detectors at P.S. 36 in Jamaica, where a student was caught with three knives in his backpack.
Nobody was hurt, but parents want to know why there weren’t immediately informed.
“What’s going on in the school, like a child bringing a knife I would like to know,” Denise said.
A quick email would have been nice, Julio said.
“For the safety of the kids it’s always good to keep parents informed as to what’s going on,” he said.
School officials wouldn’t say why the 10-year-old had the knives, but promised appropriate follow up action.
Hey racist, Anything on the Kentucky high school shooting? I didn't think so. You only report on black incidents.
DeleteHey 7:04, how do you know article was referring to a person of color? couldnt it have been a person of non-color? or a non-person of non-color?
ReplyDeletepc/identity politics does get confusing.
Because it goes without saying...who normally commits crime and the quick scream of racist.
ReplyDeleteI think it is white people who usually shoot up schools.
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