| After NYCHA Extortion
Take Down Samuel Pled to
Bribes of $80000 Now Gets 17
Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Sept 3 – 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 June 26 control date before
Judge Dale E. Ho.
On April 8, a
plea by NYCHA defendant
Michael Davis, to a
misdemeanor: defrauding HUD.
He took $4000 for contracts
worth $29,000. He will be
sentenced by (Chief)
Magistrate Judge Sarah
Netburn, with a July 8 control
date.
On April 9, a
plea by NYCHA defendant
Elizabeth Tapia to a felony,
for taking $11,000 in bribes
for contracts worth
$66,000. Somewhere
between the two is the
Office's line between
misdemeanor and felony, with
all its consequences.
On April 15, two
NYCHA pleas: Daniel Muniz to a
misdemeanor, and Marlon Mackey
to a felony.
On April 18,
Clarence Samuel in one of the
NYCHA cases also pled to a
felony - the information
describes him as taking
$82,200 in bribes, for
contracts worth $250,000.
On July 22, the
US Attorney's Office wrote it
asking for 24 months.
On September 3,
Samuel was sentenced to 17
months, and a recommendation
of FCI Otisville.
The case is US v.
Samuel, 24-cr-241 (Schofield /
Parker)
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