By John Riley
Star federal
corruption witness Jona Rechnitz matter of factly implicated New York
City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a half-dozen former NYPD officials and the
Westchester County executive in a seamy series of money-for-favors deals
during first public testimony Thursday in Manhattan.
Appearing at the bribery trial of former city jail-guards
union boss Norman Seabrook, Rechnitz said that after he raised $100,000
in 2013 for de Blasio he became a phone and email buddy with the
mayor-to-be, and then had an open line to a top City Hall aide after de
Blasio won.
“Whenever we would call him for access or a favor, we were getting the
response we expected and the results we were expecting,” Rechnitz told a
prosecutor, rattling off five different cases where he sought help or
intervention from City Hall.
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Source: Newsday (via The Empire Report)
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