This amazing video is a couple of years old, but a great lesson for all would-be unscrupulous politicians and those that would seek to do illegal business with them. It depicts disgraced former Brooklyn Assemblywoman Diane Gordon soliciting a bribe from a developer. Gordon was trying to get the developer to build her a $500,000 home and outfit her office with a pair of expensive doors, in exchange for helping the developer get a city contract to develop a vacant lot in her district. Gordon was sentenced to two to six years in prison, after she was convicted of 8 of 9 counts, including “two counts of receiving bribes, two counts of official misconduct and two counts of ‘receiving awards for official misconduct.’”
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August 5, 2011
Never Seen a Politician Take a Bribe Before?
