Editorial: Annabi trial ends, but corruption will linger
The Journal News - EDITORIAL - March 29, 2012
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The smitten-cousin defense, novel and intriguing as it was, ultimately was no match for common sense, or the Rolex watch, car payments, airfare, cash or other valuables that moved between former Yonkers Councilwoman Sandy Annabi and her distant cousin, one-time Yonkers Republican Party Chairman Zehy Jereis, convicted Thursday of all charges in their federal corruption trial. The jurors in their case, no doubt more used to hearing of politicians succumbing to pedestrian desires — such as financial gain and greed, spent five days deliberating the fate of the pair, who were found guilty of charges including conspiracy, bribery and extortion. Annabi, a Democrat, faces 12-15 years in prison; Jereis faces 14-17 years. Yonkers could use a respite of at least that long from the corrupt and salacious. The married Jereis claimed in court that the ultimate goal of the gifts and cash was to win the councilwoman’s heart. He offered as evidence a series of emails sent Annabi in which he declared his romantic intentions. The jury, however, was having none of it, concluding it was inducements worth $174,000 that compelled Annabi to turn her initial opposition into support for two multimillion-dollar developments — the Ridge Hill retail and residential project and a housing development known as the Longfellow School project. “The only love these two shared was a love of money,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Perry Carbone. At trial, evidence shows numerous financial transactions between Annabi and Jereis, her campaign manager during her successful run for council in November 2001. He later received a no-show job with Forest City Ratner, developer of Ridge Hill. Prosecutors said developers worked through Jereis to control Annabi’s votes. So went another chapter in the annals of public corruption in New York and the Lower Hudson Valley. It is an old and tedious story. In February, former longtime state Sen. Nicholas Spano, a Yonkers Republican, pleaded guilty to tax evasion, in a case where public corruption also figured prominently.
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The Journal News has been protecting the center of New York's court corruption for years. The criminals make a phone call to the paper and stories get squashed.
ReplyDeleteThere is no more investigative journalism anymore. There is no more worthwhile content in any story. Just fluff and filler.
ReplyDeleteTrue. Same as comunism. Theyget to decide what the public gets to know. Censorship?
ReplyDeleteThe journal News finds reporting of corruption tedious. It is rightly losing readers as it has totally failed to report all the corruption known to its reporters and editors and withheld from the readers. Corruption flourishes because the Journal News is covering it up.
ReplyDeleteAll media is covering for judicial corruption..upstate..downstate etc.
ReplyDeleteThe media refuses to inform the citizens about this American force of democratic destruction, because it is the father raping his daughters turn of the stomach. Uprising material!
OCA and other courts have a hold, most likely corporate, on the media and therebye they will not tell those nasty tales for fear of the above.
I know an upstate paper has facts about prolific racial discrimination within OCA and the Editor has it on hold.
America hides corruption to lull its citizens into the myth that America is the peace loving Democratic country we were taught it was before 911 showed us that it hid alot of evidence of that event..like no airplane parts in PA crash which has never been seen in any crash etc ..and the hiding has not stopped since then.
As long as Washington is filled with extremely wealthy congresspeople and their corruption goes untouched ..you will only see a judicial expose by the people movements that will begin again this year..that the US and corporations fear! Did you see Cuomo quake at the OCCUPIERS..he has lots to hide... that quack.
Yonkers and Westchester Co. are and have been a cesspool of corruption for years. When does Big Nicky Spano fall? It can't be too soon!
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The journal News finds reporting of corruption tedious. It is rightly losing readers as it has totally failed to report all the corruption known to its reporters and editors and withheld from the readers. Corruption flourishes because the Journal News is covering it up.
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