Posted on 02/24/2017 11:28:40 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Bill de Blasio is on the hot seat, facing federal investigators as they grill him about a corruption probe swirling around City Hall for nearly a year.
Despite his reputation for tardiness, de Blasio arrived 20 minutes early Friday for his 9:30 a.m. date with prosecutors and FBI agents investigating whether the mayor or his aides gave donors favorable treatment in exchange for campaign cash, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.
The mayor never rolled down his window and an army of detectives and security were on hand to keep reporters at bay, Kramer reported.
The mayor left Gracie Mansion in his SUV at 8:45 a.m. Mobile 2 followed the two-car caravan as it made it’s way down the FDR Drive, then across town to the office of his attorney near Rockefeller Center. The security car in the rear finally put on its lights and blocked Mobile 2 just before it’s arrival so de Blasio could not be seen going into the building, Kramer reported.
For nearly a year U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has probed donations to the campaign and his now defunct political action committee. Sources say the feds want to question the mayor about a dozen topics including contributions by Harendra Singh, who is negotiating a lease for the Water’s Edge restaurant in Long Island City, property owned by the city.
Singh, who was arrested on unrelated bribery and fraud charges is cooperating with prosecutors. He also cooperated in the investigation that lead to the indictment of Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano. . .
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Obama’s DOJ has left
Everybody hates Bill de Blasio.
The Rockettes have a cardboard image of him. They suspend it on a wire and have the girls kick it for practice.
“Kick him in the nards, Kathy! Kick the liberal right out of him!”
Have ICE pick him up and deport him.
Singh is singin’ like a canary? ;)
Big Bird tail feathers caught in trap...corrupt
POS
Democrat?
Not guilty.
Come on, you know it.
We can dream, can’t we?? ;-)
I sense an opening at the top in the city government of New York City. De Blasio getting frog-marched out of chambers....
Only if he hasn’t greased the *right* palms.
Wish we could get a chart comparing the time it takes to indict a pleeb v. the slow-walking of the corrupt ‘elite’.
Unfortunately it is being investigated by the CORRUPT FBI and the CORRUPT JAMES COMEY IN CHARGE. As soon as this is handed to Comey to sign off on, I bet the EVIDENCE Mysteriously Disappears and the case is dropped.
But I hear Corrupt Comey is Real good at LAUNDERING DRUG MONEY At HSBC Bank, the Cartel Choice.
You know every one of these Sanctuary City politicians are as dirty as the Clintons.
Hey !
They’re democrats, aren’t they?
Friend went to a union local meeting and the delgate called him a douchbag
Under oath?
[Under oath?]
De Blasio doesn’t have to be under oath. If he’s caught lying to federal investigators it’s a felony.
FROM WIKIPEDIA: Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in “any matter within the jurisdiction” of the federal government of the United States, even by mere denial[clarification needed].[1] A number of notable people have been convicted under the section, including Martha Stewart,[2] Rod Blagojevich,[3] Scooter Libby,[4] Bernard Madoff,[5] and Jeffrey Skilling.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
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