Posted on 04/17/2018 9:47:34 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A former Brooklyn prosecutor is set to go on trial Monday in a guns-for-bribes case that has shaken up the way the NYPD doles out gun permits. John Chambers, a self-described gun lawyer to the stars, stands accused of bribing David Villanueva, an ex-supervisor in the NYPD’s gun licensing division, for hard-to-obtain gun permits — including for a client who was being investigated for domestic abuse, according to prosecutors. Chambers is one of seven people who have been charged by Manhattan federal prosecutors for paying or accepting bribes for permits, including Villanueva, three other cops and two other gun expediters. His arrest last year, along with the officers, resulted in the NYPD announcing major changes to its gun licensing division, including staffing changes. Chambers, 63, is the first to take his case to trial. The government’s key witness, Villanueva, who is cooperating with the feds, will tell the jury that Chambers gave him tickets to Broadway shows and baseball games, an $8,000 Paul Picot watch and cash hidden in magazines. In exchange, Villanueva will say he helped Chambers get gun licenses with the NYPD and with the Nassau County Police Department. Prosecutors are also expected to introduce email evidence showing that Chambers bribed Villanueva to help a client who was afraid of losing his gun license because he was under investigation for a domestic incident. snip Defense lawyers are expected to screen potential jurors on Monday for a bias against guns. Chambers, who is transgender, has also asked the judge to instruct the jurors that they cannot base their verdict on “gender identity,” although it is not expected to come up at trial. “I was just concerned, if it were to come out during the trial,” defense lawyer Steve Brounstein told the judge last week.
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It isn’t often that words fail FReepers, but this pic may have done it.
About 15 minutes with no comments.
LOL.
Persecutors don’t tend to generate great amounts of sympathy.
Maybe you missed the part that this pic is of a biological female who is a tranny...never mind the job description LOL.
What a fathead!!!
Yet smother adverse consequence of our unconstitutional “gun laws”
That is one ugly broad.
EXTREMELY guilty!
More like the child of Frank Cannon.
At times one had to feel sorry for Hamilton Berger.
How democrats and liberals view a Constitutional Right.
You have to be connected and you have to pay for it.
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“The way the NYPD doles out gun permits’’. Why the hell is any police department given authority to ‘dole out’’ a constitutional right?
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A: Because we are no longer a Constitutional Republic?
(Oops! Must be politically correct)
Hang him!
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