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  • Assemblyman Eric Stevenson ‘was reading the Bible' when busted for taking bribe (NY)

    04/06/2013 4:47:14 PM PDT · by neverdem · 12 replies
    NY Daily News ^ | APRIL 6, 2013 | DANIEL BEEKMAN
    Eric Stevenson 'was totally surprised' when officers came to arrest him for allegedly taking $20,000 in bribes. Stevenson's actions came to light thanks to another assemblyman, Nelson Castro, who was working undercover to expose political corruption. The state assemblyman busted Thursday on bombshell bribery charges says he was reading the Bible when he was arrested and insists he did no wrong. The allegations that Eric Stevenson took $20,000 in bribes stunned his constituents and his Assembly colleagues. But he told the Daily News on Friday that he was the most shocked of all. “It took me totally by surprise,” the...
  • Another New York lawmaker charged in corruption case

    04/06/2013 10:11:25 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 18 replies
    LA Times ^ | April 4, 2013, 3:11 p.m. | Tina Susman
    For the second time in three days, prosecutors announced corruption charges Thursday against a New York state lawmaker, this time accusing a legislator of accepting bribes from businessmen who wanted his help in running and maintaining adult day-care centers. A 36-page complaint charged Sen. Eric Stevenson, who represents the 79th District in the Bronx, with accepting about $22,000—most of it stuffed into envelopes and handed over at a number of secretly recorded meetings—between April 2012 and this month. Stevenson, 46, who was elected in 2010, was charged with fraud, conspiracy and bribery and could face at least 20 years in...