Posted on 05/05/2015 4:55:21 AM PDT by lowbridge
Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son were arrested on Monday by federal authorities on extortion, fraud and bribe solicitation charges, expanding the corruption investigation that has cast a renewed spotlight on Albany’s intractable corruption problem.
The charges against Senator Skelos, 67, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, 32, were detailed in a six-count criminal complaint that quickly became mandatory reading material in the Capitol building. Politicians and their staff members pored over the 43-page complaint — an often titillating document that included references to burner phones, secretly taped conversations and strong-arm tactics that were on display even during the wake of a slain police officer.
Senator Skelos, a Republican from Long Island, was accused of taking official actions to benefit a small Arizona environmental company, AbTech Industries, and a large New York developer, Glenwood Management, that had financial ties to AbTech. Senator Skelos agreed to do so, according to the complaint, as long as the companies paid his son.
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A Republican, so we will be reading a lot more about this caper.
You have to give New York an “A” for effort in the race to see which state has the most thoroughly corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisle. When it came to both Democrats and Republicans being thoroughly corrupt, self-interested, money-grubbing leaches, Illinois was in the lead, but with this, I think New York may be ahead by a nose.
With 4 of our last 7 Governors having gone to jail, I would say Illinois has already crossed the finish line in first while everyone else is still racing for 2nd place.
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