Posted on 10/27/2017 8:09:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A Mayor Bill de Blasio donor-turned-felon testified in extraordinary detail Thursday that he and his businessman pals wrote the book on city corruption — buying off the Mayor’s Office and the Police Department using brazen pay-to-play tactics.
“We’re going to become significant contributors, but we want access,” Jona Rechnitz, 34, testified telling de Blasio fundraiser Ross Offinger after Hizzoner clinched the Democratic nod for mayor in 2013.
De Blasio soon paid Rechnitz a visit in his office, the disgraced businessman told jurors in Manhattan federal court.
De Blasio — who last year called his relationship with Rechnitz “not a particularly close” one — handed the wheeler-dealer his private cellphone number and email address, the witness said. The pair then began chatting “at least” once a week about “different issues in the city” — as Rechnitz funneled about $160,000 to de Blasio’s campaign and pet political projects, said the government witness. […]
Rechnitz appeared as the star witness in the bribery trial of former city corrections union chief Norman Seabrook. He is accused of bribing Seabrook to get him to invest $20 million in union pension money in a pal’s ailing hedge fund. But testimony quickly veered toward de Blasio, as Rechnitz was questioned about his ties to the administration. …
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All this winning is wearing me out
Well what’s the YUGE shock here. Socialist/commie head cheeses are always like this. Uncle burnme-—3 houses, duh blahblahblazero-—bribes. In the end-——meh. Sorry. The federal bureau of matters and the department of jokers won’t do anything and these assclowns know it.
Plea deal?
Strap de Blasio to a horse-drawn carriage and circle Central Park.
No.....
Impossible.....
Another thief yammering about being a socialist while he steals?
How unusual.
Why is this shocking. It’s to the point where corruption isn’t even news.
deblobio is a marxist piece of $hit.
this is the look of the left....absolute corruption while pretending to be for the “little” people...
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