Mayor de Blasio donor pleaded guilty to attempted bribery charges
Source: New York Daily News
A major donor to Mayor de Blasio testified under oath that he made donations to an elected official sources identify as the mayor to win favorable treatment from City Hall.
Harendra Singh made the pay-to-play assertion during a plea proceeding in a locked courtroom in Long Island in October 2016, and until Wednesday his words remained hidden from public view.
Without naming de Blasio, Singh stood in court and said he gave and raised tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to an elected New York City official in exchange for efforts by that official
and other city officials to obtain official action from a New York City agency that would benefit myself and restaurants I owned, court papers show.
A criminal information filed by the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney states a senior aide arranged a meeting with an agency head to pressure the agency to make its proposed settlement terms more favorable to Singh.
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