THE FULL NELSON

To save his skin, Nelson Castro, a native of the Dominican Republic, and corrupt NY state assemblyman, made a deal to get wired to root out govt corruption. Now Castro's beached the deal to save himself---recently pleading guilty in federal court to lying...prosecutors caught Castro stupidly lying on YouTube.

No one's opposed to ferreting out corruption in Albany....which some consider to be organized crime. But the indicted, wired Castro was allowed to run for re-election......the corrupt Castro presented himself to voters under false pretenses....a curious way to clean up corruption.

CASTRO'S LIFE OF CRIME---Castro's extensive rap sheet was apparently not considered a deterrent for public office. The NY candidate selection committee used corrupt Dominican standards to give Castro the nod---with no compunctions about corrupting the US system.

Bronx Democrat Nelson Castro, a Dominican Republic native---led a life of crime before landing in the NY state legislature.

<><> a 1989 felony arrest in Michigan for larceny. Michigan court records show that 19-year old Castro pled guilty to a misdemeanor conspiracy and was sentenced to 180 days probation.

<><> In 2003, Castro was arrested again in New York, this time for grand larceny. He was accused of pocketing $4,900 in unemployment checks while holding a job. He pled guilty to petty larceny, repaid the money and was slapped with three years probation.

<><> Then in March 2008, Castro was arrested a third time — for driving in East Harlem with a revoked license and as a scofflaw who owed more than $3,000 in parking tickets. Even more disturbing revelations followed--lying under oath, votino fraud, and forging petitions for public office.

ETHNIC SOLIDARITY REARS ITS UGLY HEAD Castro's woes began in 2008, when the NY Board of Elections began examining Castro’s eligibility to run as a resident of the 86th district after allegations that numerous voters were registered at the same addresses as his home and that of a campaign worker.

During an Aug. 7, 2008, hearing, Castro lied under oath, denying he knew the votino fraudster-- Steve Santana--- and Desdemona Cruz who was on a candidate-selection committee looking to put Dominican natives on the ballot to increase latino powerin Albany. Cruz and the selection committee anointed Castro as candidate. Castro's extensive rap sheet did not deter the selection committee.

The fact that illegal Dominican immigrants used home addresses of Castro, his campaign worker (and other Dominicans?), means they are probably registered at their own addresses, as well.

How many times did these Dominican latinos vote? Castro was never nailed on this.

SOURCE-NY POST---Food-stamp fraud has turned into foreign aid — to black-market profiteers in the Dominican Republic.... welfare recipients buy food with EBT cards and ship it to relatives. But not to starving children.

The NY Post found people hawking barrels of American products on Dominican streets. “It’s a really easy way to make money, and it doesn’t cost me anything,” a seller said.

She also vends EBT goods out of her Dominican home “I know a lot of people are doing it,” she said. The 47-year-old Bronx native in the Dominican Republic said she regularly gets barrels from her sister, who buys at Western Beef on Prospect Ave near East 165th St in Foxhurst.

The EBT scammer pays $75 per barrel through Mott Haven’s Luciano Shipping.

A Dominican Republic man sells a barrel shipped from NYC, stuffed with EBT food — part of a thriving black market. / Pic by Jose Ernesto Devarez

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And the food-stamp fraud doesn’t stop there......Bronx grocers ring up bogus $250 transactions with EBT cards and hand cardholders her $200 cash (grocers pocket the rest). No goods are exchanged.

Cardholder sends the money to Santiago — when she’s not spending it on liquor or other nonfood items. “We do it all the time, and a lot of people do this,” Maria-Teresa said. “It’s a way of laundering money, but it’s easier because it’s free.”

Jean, another public-assistance cheat in Santiago, told The Post he has peddled welfare food in Santiago since getting deported from New York in 2010. A thirty-something Haitian national, he said his sister in Queens uses her EBT card to purchase food before shipping it to him from Long Island City.

“Every other month, I receive the barrels from my sister in New York City,” he told The Post. “Whatever I don’t need, I sell. “My sister uses food stamps to buy most of the things she sends me,” Jean added. He says the barrels are filled with cereal, baby formula, juices, olive oil and canned soup.

He said his sister uses Long Island City’s Santiago Cargo Express, where barrels full of food cost $100 to ship to the DR. When The Post found Jean, he was lugging an empty barrel down the street and hoping to sell it to a friend for $35. Many Dominicans then use the containers to store water for their homes. kbriquelet@nypost.com

Pioneer Supermarket, Brooklyn, sells plastic barrels
used to ship EBT foods to family members
to sell in the Dominican Republic. / pic by J.C. Rice

But, in Chicago the Mob IS the government (cackle).One ex-gov went to jail for selling truck licenses (he got nabbed when an entire family was wiped out by an incompetent trucker w/ a corrupt license). Another gov is in jail for screwing up selling O's Senate seat.

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(sniffle) CHICAGO MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL
STRONGLY DEFENDS "CHICAGO VALUES." (sob)

Just recently, Mayor Rahm gracefully plied into the controversy created after Alderman Proco Joe Moreno (1st ward) publicly announced his opposition to Chick-Fil-A opening in his ward.

Mayor Rham chuckled while doing a graceful plie: "It's easy to do business in Chicago when you know 'the rules.' Chick-Fil-A can open in our town as long as it adopts 'Chicago Values.' "

(1) weekly cash pay off to the alderman;

(2) hire six of the alderman's friends who work only random days of the month,

(3) BIG AL from the Mayor's office picks up all cash in brown paper bags at CFA's back door,

(4) Chick Fil A staff trained by Chicago PD to shoot 10-12 customers per month,

(5) Any CFA customers actually killed must be registered to vote as Democrats at the autopsies,

(6) $100,00 campaign contribution to Obama,

(7) free food to ex-Cong Jesse Jackson, Jr, who is going to a nasty Chicago jail.

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