taft2012
05-08-2013, 06:50 AM
Reader: Taft, isn't this old news?
No. This is the 2nd New York State Senator arrested within a month, the 3rd in the past year, and about the 10th in the past 5 years.
And this snowball will continue. We recently learned that a previously convicted Senator was wearing a wire for federal investigators, as was a secretly indicted New York State assemblyman.
More heads will roll. I am expecting US Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY) to get pulled in, and Rev's favorite NYS Senator Eric Adams (of anti-Stop Question Frisk fame) as well.
This arrest further shores up the amazing statistic that a New York State Senator is more likely to lose his seat due to being arrested than voted out by his constituents.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/sampson_is_man_of_steal_KTVDF2Wiwpphnb4DDFfQyI/0
With “extreme arrogance and hubris,” a Brooklyn state senator who held one of the most powerful posts in Albany embezzled nearly half a million dollars of escrow money he was entrusted to safeguard — and then used a mole inside the US Attorney’s Office to keep tabs on witnesses who threatened to expose his scheme, authorities said yesterday.
Sen. John Sampson (D-Canarsie) turned himself in to feds in Brooklyn yesterday and was charged with embezzlement, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, among other charges that could put him away for up to 120 years.
Sounding more like a mob boss than a Senate minority leader, Sampson, 47, chillingly boasted to a close “associate” charged with mortgage fraud in 2011 that if his informant in the Eastern District US Attorney’s Office learned the names of federal cooperating witnesses against the pal, then “Sampson could arrange to ‘take them out,’ ” a nine-count indictment charges.
New York State pols are starting to make New Jersey, Chicago, and Louisiana pols look like amateurs.
No. This is the 2nd New York State Senator arrested within a month, the 3rd in the past year, and about the 10th in the past 5 years.
And this snowball will continue. We recently learned that a previously convicted Senator was wearing a wire for federal investigators, as was a secretly indicted New York State assemblyman.
More heads will roll. I am expecting US Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY) to get pulled in, and Rev's favorite NYS Senator Eric Adams (of anti-Stop Question Frisk fame) as well.
This arrest further shores up the amazing statistic that a New York State Senator is more likely to lose his seat due to being arrested than voted out by his constituents.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/sampson_is_man_of_steal_KTVDF2Wiwpphnb4DDFfQyI/0
With “extreme arrogance and hubris,” a Brooklyn state senator who held one of the most powerful posts in Albany embezzled nearly half a million dollars of escrow money he was entrusted to safeguard — and then used a mole inside the US Attorney’s Office to keep tabs on witnesses who threatened to expose his scheme, authorities said yesterday.
Sen. John Sampson (D-Canarsie) turned himself in to feds in Brooklyn yesterday and was charged with embezzlement, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, among other charges that could put him away for up to 120 years.
Sounding more like a mob boss than a Senate minority leader, Sampson, 47, chillingly boasted to a close “associate” charged with mortgage fraud in 2011 that if his informant in the Eastern District US Attorney’s Office learned the names of federal cooperating witnesses against the pal, then “Sampson could arrange to ‘take them out,’ ” a nine-count indictment charges.
New York State pols are starting to make New Jersey, Chicago, and Louisiana pols look like amateurs.