| Former NYC Official Tony
Herbert Indicted for NYCHA Funeral
Home and Bakery Frauds
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 13 – With former NYC Mayor
Eric Adams launching a crypto
token and exchanging
profanities in an airport, on
January 13 the US Attorney's
Office for the Southern
District of New York announced
the "unsealing of an
Indictment charging ANTHONY
HERBERT—the former Citywide
Public Housing Liaison at the
New York City Mayor’s
Office—with committing
bribery, kickback, and fraud
offenses. HERBERT was
arrested this morning and will
be presented today before U.S.
Magistrate Judge Stewart D.
Aaron."
Inner City
Press went to the presentment
and live tweeted:
All rise! AUSA:
Mr Herbert was arrested at
7:45 am Judge Aaron: You
have retained counsel. You are
charged with abusing your
authority in Mayor's Office,
taking bribes.
Defense: Not
guilty. AUSA: We
have agreed to release on
$50,000 bond with two
co-signers in a week's time.
No contact with Security and
Funeral Home Director. Judge:
I adopt the conditions as my
own.
AUSA: Judge
Caproni has a trial, so
control date of Jan 30.
Adjourned
The third
scheme, PPP loans for a
non-existent bakery, did not
require a no contact order.
The case is USA
v. Herbert, 1:26-cr-4
(Caproni)
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