Friday, August 26, 2016

Albany corruption isn’t retiring: The importance of taking back the pensions of crooked politicians

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Albany corruption isn’t retiring: The importance of taking back the pensions of crooked politicians,

Harry Siegel
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, August 21, 2016, 5:00 AM




Does Eric Stevenson ring a bell?
Let me help if not: He’s the third-generation Bronx politician turned prisoner at Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution after pocketing envelopes stuffed with cash from shady Russians who needed his office’s help to create a regional monopoly on adult day-care centers. Stevenson, paid $22,000, kicked a $1,500 finder’s fee to fellow Assemblyman Nelson Castro who, it turned out, had been living a double life as a snitch for the feds to avoid prison time on his own set of perjury charges.
Stevenson was convicted back in 2014, which is practically ancient history given how many New York pols have gone down since. A backbench Albany lawmaker demanding “a nice little package” in exchange for helping crooks squeeze the profit out of New Yorkers’ golden years hardly stands out in this crop of “public servants.”
While corruption in Albany is a decidedly bipartisan affair, I’ll save Republicans for another week.
Among Democratic Assembly members, there’s Gabriela Rosa, who was able to run for office after paying $8,000 to become a citizen in a sham marriage (she was actually dating a convicted drug dealer, who’s now her second husband) and also filed bogus bankruptcy papers the year before she was elected.
William Boyland, a second-generation member of a Brooklyn political dynasty, convicted in that borough of bribery after he was caught on tape bragging wildly about his power for sale and asking for $250,000 to pay for his legal fees in a Manhattan bribery case he’d previously beat.

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