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Anonymous ID: 8b6a75 Nov. 22, 2018, 7:52 p.m. No.4001183   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1229 >>1430 >>1545 >>1735 >>1826 >>1829

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Peralta caught up in wiretapping.

 

"Huntley’s wiretapping also recorded conversations with state Sens. Ruth Hassell-Thompson, Jose Peralta, Velmanette Montgomery, Malcolm Smith and former state Sen. and current Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. Smith was arrested last year and charged with bribery, extortion and mail and wire fraud."

 

 

A Queens-based New York City councilman was arrested on Wednesday in connection to a corruption investigation.

Ruben Wills, under investigation by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, was arrested in connection to tens of thousands of dollars in public funds that went missing from a charity run by Wills.

Wills has agreed to surrender the chairmanship of the City Council subcommittee that deals with drug abuse. According to a spokesperson for the councilman, Wills will be prohibited from disbursing city funds to his district in 2014, and the money will be disbursed instead by the speaker’s office and the Queens delegation chair.

Last May, former state Sen. Shirley Huntley was sentenced to more than a year in prison on corruption charges after stealing money from a taxpayer-funded charity she controlled. When Huntley was caught by the FBI, she cooperated with authorities and wore a wire during home conversations with other elected officials, including Wills.

Huntley’s wire conversation allegedly caught state Sen. John Sampson suggesting that she use her political influence to help a Queens businessman expand his lease in exchange for money. Sampson was arrested on two counts of embezzlement, five counts of obstruction of justice and two counts of making false statements in an unrelated case amid accusations that he embezzled $440,000 from foreclosure sales of four Brooklyn properties.

Huntley’s wiretapping also recorded conversations with state Sens. Ruth Hassell-Thompson, Jose Peralta, Velmanette Montgomery, Malcolm Smith and former state Sen. and current Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. Smith was arrested last year and charged with bribery, extortion and mail and wire fraud.

 

http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2014/may/08/councilman-ruben-wills-arrested/

Anonymous ID: 8b6a75 Nov. 22, 2018, 8:38 p.m. No.4001562   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130508/jackson-heights/jose-peralta-wire-tap-brings-new-attention-senate-seats-corrupt-history/

 

PERALTA FUNDRAISED WITH Schumer

 

n a story similar to that of Monserrate, a Daily News report at the time alleged that Peralta directed more than $500,000 in taxpayer money to an inactive nonprofit, which reportedly never filed tax records, had no employees and was inactive for years.

The allegation never resulted in any charges, and in February, Peralta told DNAinfo New York that the situation was a misunderstanding.

"The bottom line is I funded several great not-for-profits in the area that have done great work," Peralta said in an interview at the time. "This one in particular wasn't just funded by me, but it was funded by Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Congressman Joe Crowley, and it did great work for several years.

"Unfortunately, the ex-director got ill and couldn't maintain it anymore, so eventually the funding stopped, and once the funding stops it goes out of business," Peralta added.