| After NYCHA
Extortion Take Down Rosa Pled
Out $6000 Now Gets 12 Months at
Home
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Nov 19 – 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 June 5, a
guilty plea, by Herbert Rosa
for taking $6000 in bribes for
no-bid contracts worth
$50,000. On June 8 District
Judge P. Kevin Castel approved
the plea and set sentencing.
Inner City Press
went, on November 19. Thread:
On March 19,
another guilty plea, by Victor
De Los Santos, for taking
$35,000 in bribes for no-bid
contracts worth $280,000.
On October 2, the
US Attorney's Office wrote in
asking for 18 months on
October 23.
On October 23,
Inner City Press went -
thread:
Rosa: I worked at
Housing for 25 years. This is
all I got. I'm sorry.
AUSA: He took
$6000 in bribes, for contracts
worth $50,000. It's about
abuse of trust.
Judge: He was a
caretaker at NYCHA's Lehman
Village. He is experiencing
depression. I agree with Judge
Oetken this conduct creates
cynicism, there are real
victims. I sentence Mr. Rosa
to 3 years probation with 12
months home confinement...
After that,
Rosa's counsel asked if,
beyond work and medical and
religion, Rosa could leave
home for his dogs. Judge
Castel said, If home
confinement doesn't work...
Whereupon the request was
withdrawn and a family member
in the gallery nodded that the
dogs could be taken care of.
Rosa in janitor for a floor in
MetroTech, IRS offices...
The case is US v.
Rosa, 24-cr-359 (Castel)
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