By Victoria Bekiempis and Greg B.
Smith
A major donor to Mayor de Blasio has
secretly pleaded guilty to making campaign donations to public officials in
exchange for official action, the Daily News has learned.
This stunning admission was made by Jona
Rechnitz, a Brooklyn real estate investor who months ago began cooperating with
prosecutors in former Manhattan U.S.
Attorney Preet Bharara's pay-to-pay probe of de Blasio.
The assertion surfaced in court papers
detailing for the first time Rechnitz's admissions of criminal
activity.
Rechnitz's criminal "information" was quietly unsealed by the courts March 15, the same day the U.S.
Attorney's office announced it had
decided not to bring criminal charges against de Blasio or his top aides.
Prosecutors requested the unsealing order two days before.
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Source: The New York Daily News
(via The Empire Report)
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