Ex-Councilman Halloran Guilty On All Five Counts

[hrmjustin]

Liz Benjamin

A jury today found ex-Queens Councilman Dan Halloran guilty on all five counts of the corruption charges he faced stemming in part from his role in a bribery scheme to sell the GOP line in the 2013 NYC mayoral primary.

US Attorney Preet Bharara issued the following statement:

“With today’s verdict of guilty reached by an impartial and independent jury, the clean-up of corruption in New York continues in courtrooms. As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go-between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers.”

“Dan Halloran was the lone defendant in the trial that just ended in his conviction, but he is unfortunately not alone in a crowded field of New York officials who are willing to sell out their offices for self-enrichment.”

http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/07/ex-councilman-halloran-guilty-on-all-five-counts/

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I sometimes wonder what the rest of DU thinks of NYS DEM politics.

Maybe they think we're making this stuff up.

Here's a case where the DEM SEN Majority leader *paid* a GOP City Councilmember ( this Halloran guy) to bribe *another* GOP big shot so the GOP would endorse ( anoint) HIM ( ie. the DEM Senate Majority leader) as tHE REPUBLICAN candidate for mayor.

Got that?


Now...... ( You thought that was the end. We should be so lucky.) ... Mr. Halloran's original defense was to plead insanity. It was thrown out by the judge. ( I wonder how the judge got that job. Around here you can't trust anyone.)

Not their honesty. Not their sanity.


And speaking of dishonest and insane.... I'll be posting today's NY Times account of Governor Status Cuomo's bizarre return to public life yesterday after an even more bizarre 5 day unexplained disappearance.

Soon. Really soon. I need to catch my breath.

No. We are NOT making ANY of this up.

[hrmjustin]

2. Well judging from the views I get some of them read it. I imagine it feeds into some sterotypes.