Excerpt: “Benjamin is charged with bribery, honest services wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit those offenses, based on Benjamin’s use of his official authority while a New York state senator to direct a state-funded grant to an organization controlled by a real estate developer (‘CC-1’) in exchange for campaign contributions made and procured by CC-1. Benjamin is also charged with two counts of falsifying records in connection with the preparation of contribution forms that falsely reported certain contributions made by CC-1 as being made by other individuals, and false statements Benjamin made in a questionnaire he submitted while seeking to become Lieutenant Governor.”
Indictment
(23 pages)
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