A real "pay for play mayor"; lock him up and never let his loony wife run for dog catcher.
As if we didn't know. Just shows how corrupt, and dysfunctional New York really is.
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When campaign contributions get to the $80,000 level, how often is that not a bribe? Whether the donor admits to it or not.
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Bill DiBlasio got lucky in 2016, when the Supreme Court handed down a ruling in McDonnell v. US, making it much harder to charge public officials with corruption. Otherwise, he would be under indictment right now.
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New York seems to be the center of corruption in OUR United States - if not the world.
It's really not surprising. Most of the earliest European immigrants came to New York. They were used to having to bribe and cheat just to live.
Perhaps the real American dream is to come here to learn how to steal with abandon? Become #1. After all, as Frank Sinatra so eloquently sang, "If you can make it there you can make it anywhere".
My answer today would have to be "yes". New York is the most corrupt place in the Universe. Most major "markets" are based there. The biggest, most corrupt craps tables in the world - markets. Designed to steal from the workers to enrich the crooks.
OUR United States of America is less than 300 years old. An infant civilization when compared to China. WE THE PEOPLE are the ones who decide what kind of country we live in.
Is this it? Not me. Not now. Not ever again. VOTE only for people you can shake hands with and prove their Social Conscience. Take action to regulate "markets" so everybody wins and, for heaven's sake, WE must demand that BIG money be taken out of politics. Lots of work to do. Today is a GREAT day to start and tomorrow is even better.
Join the student-sponsored "March for Our Lives" tomorrow and help bring real change to OUR country.
Find a march/demonstration near you here:
https://event.marchforourlives.com/event/march-our-lives-events/search/
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If you think New York is the most corrupt place in the universe you should try going to Russia, much of eastern Europe, India, much of Africa etc. The level of corruption we experience here in the US, while abhorrent, is but a thimble full compared to many countries where there is neither law nor enforcement of laws preventing behavior that has become culturally ingrained in society.
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What ever happen to the rent issue and the pier replacement? Did this guy actually get favorable treatment from the city?
This is the missing piece to this story. I’m no great fan of de Blasio, but every crook that gets caught points the finger at someone else to try and take the heat off of themselves.
This is also why we need campaign finance reform. No one donates thousands of dollars to a campaign without an expectation of something. And that something is always more than just lunch with a politician.
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Cynthia Nixon helped bring us the deBlasio debacle.
With judgement like that, she should be allowed nowhere near public office.
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Here we go again.
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This has been evident from day one of this administration -- voter apathy has allowed a bunch of self-righteous, arrogant, sleazy people to take the reigns of our great city and turn it toward their warped purposes and ideology. Who gets the blame, some immigrant restauranteur? The fault lies with all of us.
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Does this count as “soft corruption” as it is known in France?
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As a seasoned understudy in the clinton style of plausible deniability, this is another example of how obviously
corrupt actions will be ignored once again
while others have their public service careers terminated. The band plays on and we get what we deserve.
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As a former NYC-er, wow, just wow. DeBlasio appears to be as corrupt as Illinois politicians and that's pretty corrupt. Is he starting a trend of mayors going to jail?
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So Albany style politics and corruption has migrated south to New York City and the de Blasio administration? Shocking.
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Mr. de Blasio's constituent service appears to be legal and consistent with common practice. This man is guilty, and squirming like crazy to satisfy the prosecution so he can avoid a lengthy jail stay. It's so very sad how difficult it has become to be a public servant of the stature of Bill de Blasio.
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This behavior by the Mayor should surprise no one, except the willfully deaf and blind. He has a long history of rolling over for donors and deep-pocketed lobbyists. Remember when he met with James Capalino, a lobbyist for the helicopter industry and refused to meet with community members affected by the noisy and polluting helicopter flights, and then sold us out with a shameful "compromise"? This is the same James Capalino involved in the Greenwich Village nursing home scandal.
The Mayor is the property of industry and the lobbyists.
Lock him up!
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Mr. Singh has already pleaded guilty to bribing Mr. de Blasio, although the mayor, who has vehemently denied wrongdoing, was not charged with any crimes — in part, prosecutors have said, because he only received campaign donations from Mr. Singh, not personal gifts.
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That does not sound right. Is Cy Vance at his play favorites game again just as he did with Weinstein allegations?
If the Singh guy says he BRIBED De Blasio to get permits issued etc., does it matter whether the money went to mayor's campaign or to his personal bank account?
Corruption is corruption and pay to play politics is harmful to Democracy.
Time to indict De Blasio and clean the city and Albany of corrupt Democrats.
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The big problem is that the Supreme Court has moved the goal post on public
corruption. Several major convictions are vacated by the Supreme Court.
Now you need De Blasio to put the cash
in his personal bank account to guarantee a conviction.
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