After NYCHA
Extortion Take Down De Los
Santos Pled Out $35000 Now Gets
8 Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Oct 23 – 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 15,
another guilty plea, by Tara
Lucas for taking at least
$19,000 in bribes for no-bid
contracts worth $77,000.
On March 19,
another guilty plea, by Victor
De Los Santos, for taking
$35,000 in bribes for no-bid
contracts worth $280,000.
On October 2, the
US Attorney's Office wrote in
asking for 18 months on
October 23.
On October 23,
Inner City Press went -
thread:
Judge analogizes
to Joacim Mendez [24-cr-308,
Cote] 15 months
Judge: But the
national average for this is
nine months in prison. AUSA:
Those may not have involved,
as in NYCHA, a culture of
corruption. Defense: I
represent only 1 defendant. We
request home detention. Judge:
I'll take a break
All rise! Judge:
This was corrosive. Four years
of bribes, even after several
contractors were arrested. But
this defendant assisted at the
site of the 9/11 event. He
pled early. For general
deterence, I sentence you to 8
months in prison.
The case is US v.
De Los Santos, 24-cr-155
(Wood)
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