Friday, October 27, 2017

Witness in Norman Seabrook Trial Implicates de Blasio, NYPD Brass

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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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