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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about NY, kicking back, and DOJ....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about NY, kicking back, and DOJ....

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:08.0

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0:15.0

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0:18.0

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0:21.0

Well, howdy there, Internet People, let's's be again so today we are going to talk

0:25.6

about New York City Housing Authority and the way things work in New York at times and paying to play and all of that stuff.

0:39.1

And how it appears that the federal government is very unhappy with the way things sometimes work in New York.

0:51.0

Okay, so DOJ has engaged in what is being referred to as the largest bribery

0:58.2

take down in their history.

1:01.4

They have apparently arrested somewhere between 65 and 70 people.

1:09.1

It looks like it stems from an investigation of the New York City Housing Authority and a pay-to-play, a kickback scheme.

1:21.2

It looks at first glance like it's going to be bribery extortion and stuff like that will be the charges

1:27.5

I'm going to suggest that this isn't the end of this that as these cases move forward and people start talking about it, there's going to be more.

1:37.4

It appears that the way this functioned was, basically it was a pay-to-play scheme that centered on the no-bid contracts that are under $10,000.

1:50.0

As a way of mitigating this practice, which if you don't know what it means,

2:00.0

it's, let's say you are a contractor, you fix sinks, okay?

2:06.6

Or you install toilets.

2:08.6

And the Housing Authority has 10 new toilets

2:12.3

that need to be put in, okay, at $900 a piece, so it's $9,000.

2:19.6

The person who makes that decision is given 500 bucks and they give it to the contractor who provided

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