A New York lawmaker known as an advocate of education equality for
poor minorities, has been indicted for stealing thousands of taxpayer
dollars she steered to a fake charity that claimed to help poor parents
navigate the city’s school system.
Photos of the 74-year-old state senator, Shirley Huntley, being hauled away in handcuffs are downright shameful. Dressed in a powder-blue skirt suit with a white shirt, the accused legislator blurted out that it was a “great day,” according to a local newspaper report. This is the same publication that actually inspired the state to investigate the Democrat from Queens by first poking into the corrupt operation.
It turns out that Huntley steered nearly $30,000 in taxpayer money to the fake nonprofit called Parent Workshop, according to the New York Attorney General’s office, which issued the 20-count indictment this week. The fake charity claimed to help low-income folks deal with the city’s huge and complicated public school system. Instead, authorities say, the money was pocketed by Huntley’s niece, who served as the group’s treasurer, and another man, who is listed as president.
When authorities started snooping around, the senator falsified documents to cover up the corruption. She “personally wrote a template for a false, backdated letter designed to fool investigators into believing that the Parent Workshop had conducted workshops that never took place,” according to the Attorney General. Then the senator submitted it to the Attorney General’s office in response to a subpoena.
Read more: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/08/n-y-senator-hauled-away-in-cuffs-charged-with-20-counts/
Photos of the 74-year-old state senator, Shirley Huntley, being hauled away in handcuffs are downright shameful. Dressed in a powder-blue skirt suit with a white shirt, the accused legislator blurted out that it was a “great day,” according to a local newspaper report. This is the same publication that actually inspired the state to investigate the Democrat from Queens by first poking into the corrupt operation.
It turns out that Huntley steered nearly $30,000 in taxpayer money to the fake nonprofit called Parent Workshop, according to the New York Attorney General’s office, which issued the 20-count indictment this week. The fake charity claimed to help low-income folks deal with the city’s huge and complicated public school system. Instead, authorities say, the money was pocketed by Huntley’s niece, who served as the group’s treasurer, and another man, who is listed as president.
When authorities started snooping around, the senator falsified documents to cover up the corruption. She “personally wrote a template for a false, backdated letter designed to fool investigators into believing that the Parent Workshop had conducted workshops that never took place,” according to the Attorney General. Then the senator submitted it to the Attorney General’s office in response to a subpoena.
Read more: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/08/n-y-senator-hauled-away-in-cuffs-charged-with-20-counts/
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