Posted on 04/19/2016 5:04:39 AM PDT by lowbridge
NYPD cops pocketed cash bribes to “expedite” pistol permits for members of the Orthodox Jewish community — and a Boro Park Shomrim patrol leader offered another officer a near $1 million payday to keep the scheme going, the feds charged Monday.
A cop in the NYPD’s License Division allegedly confessed to the FBI that he and a supervisor accepted payments he called “lunch money” from Alex “Shaya” Lichtenstein, who was hauled into court Monday on bribery and conspiracy charges
Court papers say Lichtenstein was secretly recorded last week bragging about how he had secured 150 gun licenses through his connections in the division but needed a new hookup there following a crackdown.
He then offered a whistleblowing cop $6,000 a pop to continue the scheme, using a calculator to show that another 150 permits would be worth $900,000 in payoffs, court papers say.
Lichtenstein said his arrangement had been derailed by the License Division’s commanding officer, Deputy Inspector Michael Endall, for fear that people would think Endall “had his hand in the cookie pot,” according to the feds.
The complaint says Lichtenstein spent time at the License Division “on a near daily basis” from 2014 and was regularly spotted sitting near the desk of a supervisor, identified by sources as Sgt. David Villanueva.
Villanueva told his colleagues at the License Division early this year that Endall had “banished Lichtenstein because of the money Lichtenstein was making selling gun licenses,” the complaint says.
Villanueva claimed that Lichtenstein “charged his customers $18,000 per gun license.”
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The only crime here is that people need to bribe police to get a right already guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
This particular type of corruption in NYC is nothing new. It’s well known that if you have money or connections you can get a permit. BTW, a whistleblower cop with the name of “Endall”?
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New York values ...
This is also why “shall issue” CCW will be very hard to pass for NY — too many people making money off the current system.
People always rebel against unjust laws.
--yeah, I'll bet those members of the Orthodox community were just out there shooting up the city right and left---(sarc)--
If I’m an Orthodox Jewish leader, nobody is going to frisk me, so I just carry.
When I was first at risk, that’s what I did.
Permitted now.
My guess is that those pistol permits were probably for people working in either the diamond district or high end electronic/photo/video retail and wholesale dealerships, both of which are heavily Orthodox Jewish fields in NYC.
Both are industries where you have very high dollar products that are very easy to sell on the black market.
Mark
“A cop in the NYPD’s License Division allegedly confessed to the FBI that he and a supervisor accepted payments he called “lunch money”
Pretty much sums up “New Yayk” values. The same values as Mexico and all defined by just two words, gaudy and graft.
Of course it’s to be expected, being that New Yayk is the capital
of the Northeastern Communist Block USA.
Hey, he’s just “getting things done, Trump-style”
I’ve been to NYC a lot, generally flying into that little airport in NJ, going in some tunnel, and then out in one day.
Rang the bell, paid homage to Credit Suisse and Goldman, and did all the things a CEO of a public company have to do.
And then got the Hell out.
It’s a cesspool of corruption and one good natural (or man-made) disaster away from a Kurt Russel movie.
You said it first, but I’m going to say it too.
New York values
—yep—and I suspect that in the entire history of the Sullivan Law, not a crime of violence has ever been committed by a member of the diamond trade-—
Out here in America, the States don’t presume to require that we have a “permit” to own a pistol. Increasingly, they don’t even presume to require that we have a “permit” to carry a pistol as we go about our daily peaceable business.
New York needs to follow our lead.
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You said it first, but I’m going to say it too.
New York values
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Please. I know it’s an easy target, but give it the name it deserves: Fascism in action.
Anyone expect any difference in Cali, Chicago, Detroit, etc.? It’s the SOP for all tyrannies across the U.S. that refuse to acknowledge Our Rights.
I hope this will be this cop’s be-all and end-all.
(I wonder if Endall had a partner named Beall?)
Don't make fun of NY! NY values are super because trump!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahaha!!!!
I love how NY whines that most guns used illegally come from out of state.
IT’S BECAUSE YOU DON’T SELL ANY IN YOUR LARGEST URBAN AREA!!!
Dumbasses.
It’s both lawful and encouraged for people to legally carry guns in Detroit. The current chief of police even recommends it.
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