| After NYCHA
Extortion Take Down Mercado
Pled to Felony now Wants Year
Home Detention
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Sept 27– For days Inner City
Press had heard from its
sources there would be a
"takedown" on February 6, each
SDNY Magistrate Judge would
handle seven to 10 defendants.
Arrests happen at
6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City
Press tweeted it, first to X
subscribers with the spoiler
alert: the expectation was
that each of the current or
former NYCHA employees would
be released on bond the same
day.
And then hours
later at 9:39 am the
prosecutors announced it.
Media rushed around reporting
it. Inner City Press had
it first, and after discretely
waiting, published it first.
Then this thread of
presentments, here.
On May 6 another
felony plea, to a higher bribe
amount: Juan Mercado, for
bribes of $329,300. He will be
sentenced on October 1 at 2:30
pm by Judge Valerie E.
Caproni.
On September 17,
Mercado's counsel wrote in
asking for a year of home
detention.
On September 27,
the US Attorney's Office wrote
in to take back an allegation
that "defendant failed to
report or hid bank accounts
from the Probation Office."
They've asked for 46 months on
October 1.
The case is US v.
Mercado, 24-cr-279 (Caproni)
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