American justice announces a “historic” anti-corruption crackdown in the social housing and public housing sector of New York. Some 70 arrests and indictments for bribery and extortion.
Sixty-six of the 70 people pursued were arrested Tuesday morning in New York, in the neighboring states of New Jersey and Connecticut and further south in North Carolina. Total bribes exceed two million dollars “Instead of acting in the interest of NYCHA residents, the City of New Yorkers or taxpayers, the 70 defendants are suspected of using their positions to line their own pockets,” thundered the prosecutor.