| Bronx CEO of
Homeless Group Gets 27 Months After
Stealing $1 Million Now Runs Food Truck
By Matthew
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 23 – Victor Rivera
was charged with stealing $1
million from the Bronx Parents
Housing Network and pleaded
guilty.
On May 23, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Sidney H.
Stein held his sentencing.
Inner City Press attended and
live tweeted it here:
OK- at sentencing
for bribery of Victor Rivera
of Bronx Parent Housing
Network. Out in hall a woman
is crying and kneeling in
prayer.
In
courtroom, sexual harassment
is raised. Rivera's lawyer
says he cooperated. AUSA says
he lied, repeatedly. Rivera is
now running a food truck.
Judge Stein: You didn't have
to steal. You made over
$450,000 a year. Rivera: I
made only $70,000 a year
before that.
Rivera: My
consulting company was legal.
Judge Stein: It was run by
your son. It took kickbacks.
Rivera: That was only for 2
years. Judge: You pled to 2013
to 2020. Rivera: I say only
since 2018. [So much for
acceptance of responsibility]
Rivera: I
only own one car. I give away
my unused food truck food in
Hunts Point. I am no longer in
the jewelry business. I have
been with Jesus Christ for 27
years. I am asking for mercy.
Judge Stein: You stuffed your
pockets with money &
undermined public trust
Judge Stein: I
sentence you, Victor Rivera,
to 27 months in prison.
Previously:
RIVERA was the President and
Chief Executive Officer of
Organization-1, which annually
spent millions of dollars in
public funds on real estate,
security, cleaning,
construction, and food
expenses, among other costs
related to the housing and
social services Organization-1
provided. From at least in or
about 2013 until in or about
2020, RIVERA engaged in a
scheme to enrich himself and
his relatives by soliciting
and accepting bribes and
kickbacks from contractors
doing work related to or for
Organization-1. The scheme
yielded RIVERA at least
hundreds of thousands of
dollars in illicit gains.
RIVERA laundered some of the
corrupt payments through
intermediary entities he
controlled, including through
a purported consulting company
nominally owned by one of
RIVERA’s
relatives.
The case is US v.
Rivera, 21-cr-221 (Stein)\
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