| For Corruption in Rikers
Island Corrections Officers and
Counselor Presented in SDNY
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 9 – Shanequa Washington
and five others were arrested
and presented on April 9 on
charges of corruption at their
place of employment, the
Rikers Island jail.
The
complaint says of the
co-defendants "met with
WASHINGTON, who was employed
by the DOC, and provided
WASHINGTON with prison
contraband, so that WASHINGTON
would, and did, bring said
contraband into a DOC facility
located in the Bronx, New
York, and provide said
contraband to an inmate. c. In
exchange for WASHINGTON
agreeing to introduce
contraband into the DOC
facility, WASHINGTON received,
after each of the
above-described contraband
deliveries, bribes, including
payments from subsequent sales
of contraband within the DOC
made to a Cash App account
that she managed and
controlled, collectively
totaling more than $5,000."
Washington was presented last
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Sarah
Netburn. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag Court.
Washington
was released on $100,000 bond;
the prosecutors said he
understand she is married to
one of the co-defendants and
so can speak with him, but not
about the case.
The overall
case is US v. Rivera, et
al., 24-mj-1378 (Netburn)
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