| NYCHA Extortion
Take Down Inner City Press
Reported First Before 6 AM Now
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by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
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SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 6 – 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:
"11:00 a.m. - A
press conference will be held
today to announce the
unsealing of Complaints
charging 70 current and former
NYCHA employees with bribery
and extortion offenses.
The defendants have been
charged with allegedly
accepting cash payments from
contractors in exchange for
awarding NYCHA
contracts. Today’s
charges constitute the largest
number of federal bribery
charges on a single day in
Department of Justice
history."
Media rushed
around reporting
it. But Inner City
Press had it first, and after
discretely waiting, published
it first.
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site - and these feeds: X
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