Wow! Good news here. Habbening?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4215447/posts
70 current and ex-NYCHA workers cuffed in historic, decade-long $2M bribery and extortion bust
NY Post ^ | 02/06/2024 | Craig McCarthy , Ben Kochman , Nolan Hicks
Seventy current and former NYCHA workers were busted Tuesday in a 10-year, $2 million pay-to-play corruption scheme involving the largest number of federal bribery charges brought in a single day in Department of Justice history.
The avalanche of bribery and extortion crimes occurred in about a third of the 335 developments in the New York Housing Authority — the country’s biggest public housing agency — when the suspects demanded cash in exchange for lucrative construction, maintenance and no-bid contracts, officials said.
The defendants, all of whom were working for NYCHA at the time, sought between 10% and 20% of the contracts’ values — or kickbacks of between $500 and $2,000 — though some asked for higher amounts, authorities said.
In total, the dozens of rogue workers received more than $2 million in bribes involving $13 million in contracts between 2013 and 2023, officials said.
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13 million in contracts? That’s a good start but it has to be chump change to the housing authority. Maybe the biggest scam is the apartment/hotel units that are contracted for low income, etc. The units (thousands of them) have long been held in reserve, paid for but never occupied, at least until the wetbacks got there. The owners get the fixed rate but keep maintenance super low by not using them.
Maybe a few of these on-the-take managers will squeal on the rest of the scammers?
Re Habbening:
That is great news! ThankQ.