| After NYCHA Extortion
Take Down McCoy Pled to
$9000 Felony Gets 7 Weeks
Not in MDC
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 15 – 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 May 7, amid
guilty pleas by others, Vernon
Chambers pled guilty - to a
misdemeanor; the Information
lists $5,500 in bribes for
contracts worth $24,000. His
sentencing control date is
August 20.
On June 6, James
Miller pled guilty before
District Judge Vernon S.
Broderick to a felony, bribes
of $86,500. His sentencing is
set for October 2 at 11 am.
On June 10,
Gwendolyn Bell pled guilty to
taking $32,000 in bribes in
the case; Nakia McCoy pled to
$9000 in bribes for $71,000 in
contracts.
On January 10,
2025 the US Attorney's Office
wrote in asking for 12 months
on McCoy; sentencing was set
for January 15.
Inner City Press
went to the sentencing, the
only person in the courtroom
gallery. Defense counsel cited
a recent Judge Engelmayer
sentence in a NYCHA case to
six weeks, not in MDC. Judge
Castel said he'd read it. He
sentenced Ms. McCoy to seven
weeks - also not in MDC.
That case is US
v. McCoy , 24-cr-371 (Castel)
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