| After NYCHA
Bribery Take Down Muniz Pled
to Misdemeanor Now Gets 6
Months Probation
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
August 20 – For days Inner
City Press had heard from its
sources there would be a
"takedown" on February 6, each
SDNY Magistrate Judge would
handle seven to 10 defendants.
Arrests happen at
6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City
Press tweeted it, first to X
subscribers with the spoiler
alert: the expectation was
that each of the current or
former NYCHA employees would
be released on bond the same
day.
And then hours
later at 9:39 am the
prosecutors announced it.
Media rushed around reporting
it. Inner City Press had
it first, and after discretely
waiting, published it first.
Then this thread of
presentments, here.
On March 27,
another guilty plea, by Joseph
Fuller for taking $37,800 in
bribes. The guideline,
Magistrate Judge James L. Cott
said, is 18 to 24 months, with
a control date before Judge
Dale E. Ho.
On April 15,
another NYCHA plea: Daniel
Muniz to a misdemeanor.
On August 12, the
US Attorney's Office wrote in
asking for eight months on
August 20; on August 19 they
submitted a letter from
NYCHA's CEO Lisa Bova-Hiatt
saying Muniz took $3000 in
bribes.
On August 20,
Inner City Press went to the
sentencing. Judge Parker said
that six months home
confinement was not necessary;
Muniz, who is 65 years old,
already lost his job. She
sentenced him to six months
probation, $3000 restitution
in two weeks, and a $4000 fine
by the end of the year.
The case is US v.
Muniz, 24-cr-228 (Parker)
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