| Benjamin
Indicted After Harlem Developer Migdol Was
Freed on $250000 Bond in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 12 – Gerald Migdol, a
lawyer who develops real
estate in Harlem, was arrested
early on November 19, 2021.
Inner City Press covered his
arraignment and when he was
freed on $250,000 bond.
On April 12 the
other shoe dropped when New
York State Lt. Gov. Brian
Benjamin was indicted.
Announced were a noon press
conference by US Attorney
Damian Williams and a
presentment in the SDNY
Magistrates Court, both of
which Inner City Press will
cover.
Back
in November Migdol was brought
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Ona T.
Wang on the afternoon of
November 19, in blue jeans.
Inner City Press was there, in
the gallery.
As it
happens, Judge Wang is also on
duty on April 12, 2022.
The Office
of the US Attorney, being
publicly sworn in at exactly
that time at the Harlem
Armory, agreed to Migdol's
release on $250,000 personal
recognizance bond.
Migdol has
a gun, which must be turned
into the local police precinct
by November 23, and an expired
passport due later.
According
to the prosecutors,
"Candidate-1 filed a
certification with the CFB in
or about September 2019,
becoming a candidate for the
office of the New York City
Comptroller and opting in to
the CFB’s matching funds
program. Thereafter,
MIGDOL and others conspired to
obtain fraudulent
contributions for Candidate-1
that would be used, among
other things, to seek public
matching funds from the CFB.
.. Through these and other
efforts, MIGDOL and others
involved in the scheme
procured nominee and other
fraudulent contributions for
Candidate-1’s campaign, which
in turn were submitted to the
CFB by Candidate-1’s campaign
in connection with requests
for at least tens of thousands
of dollars in additional
public matching funds."
The case
is assigned to District Judge
J. Paul Oetken, who has
scheduled a conference for
December 6 at 11.
Inner City Press
will stay on the case.
It is US v.
Migdol, 21-cr-706 (Oetken /
Wang)
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