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    HarrynWhitey4everBrendan O'Connor
    6/08/16 8:22am

    I wonder if he may revisit his stance on reforms at Rikers Island now?

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      EugeneHarrynWhitey4ever
      6/08/16 8:24am

      New York and New Jersey are so corrupt no wonder why people like trump get away with shit like fraud.

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      Nom Nom ChompskyHarrynWhitey4ever
      6/08/16 8:29am

      I’m sure he’ll be happy to take part in one of their guard sponsored, inmate obligatory fight clubs, it’s good exercise and the inmates will likely welcome a former correction’s officer big wig with open arms (and sharpened toothbrush). At least that is my happy day dream, more likely is that he’ll be able to settle with no admittance of wrong doing and the union will be obligated to pay his fine, wall street style.

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    Eminently Reasonable White ManBrendan O'Connor
    6/08/16 8:34am

    Does anyone else remember the good old days when Gawker loved de Blasio?

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      ww1383Eminently Reasonable White Man
      6/08/16 9:33am

      What does this have to do with them liking or not liking Deblasio? So if they liked DeBlasio they wouldn’t talk about the head of the Corrections officer union being arrested on federal corruption charges ?

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      BCDFGww1383
      6/08/16 5:26pm

      A lot of people have been muddling this whole issue, pretty laughably. De Blasio always kept his distance from Seabrook. De Blasio may have been a little slow in ordering reforms, but it certainly wasn’t as any favor to Seabrook, who got treated with only marginally better reception at City Hall than Mullins or Lynch.

      Also, FWIW, I like how the conversation among the Cuomoite wing of the Democrats went from “De Blasio hates the honest prison guards of Rikers,” to “De Blasio won’t shut down Rikers” in a matter of a few months.

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    KumichoBrendan O'Connor
    6/08/16 10:25am

    Great news! Now can we get that fucker Patrick Lynch indicted as well?

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      SpottedHyenaKumicho
      6/08/16 12:20pm

      Ugh, I would be SO HAPPY if that happened. Maybe they could arrest him either while his huge horse-face is shrieking with its enormous mouth about how cops need more money cuz 120k isn’t enough.

      Or better yet, at his house in the morning, before he puts the gel all over that ugly rubber-looking hair on his head that he thinks might still be in style somewhere in the world.

      I think he may be the worst union pres. in the country, followed closely by those two assholes in Ohio, and probably third by the guy unlucky enough to decide to defend those roided-out, pencil-dicked Philly cops

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      BCDFGSpottedHyena
      6/08/16 5:44pm

      Lynch certainly deserves a kick in the teeth. But as someone who knows how union negotiations work, let’s clear something up: he’s responsible for a lot of the problems he talks about as far as the pay issues. Those issues are also why Lynch is president.

      Here’s what I mean: when the PBA goes and negotiates, the organization is known for having a tendency toward generational warfare. The generation of the incumbent president negotiates for raises and benefits to go to the most experienced members and usually does so at a cost to the subsequent generation.

      The generation before Lynch took office did it to his generation in the 1970's (mostly in the form of shoring up pension benefits while raising service requirements). Lynch’s generation did it to the generation following it, by agreeing to contracts that raised the top of the pay scale above $100k with overtime, but at the cost of lowering starting pay on rookies.

      When Lynch talks about new cops earning enough to be on food stamps, he is actually totally right. But he also knows that he’s entirely to blame for it, because that’s what he insisted on. And of course, the public gets the worst of it, because you have asshole rookie cops like Peter Liang for it.

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    SoapBoxcarWillieBrendan O'Connor
    6/08/16 9:51am

    Fitting that his downfall didn’t involve any of the scandals where he and his union members violated inmates’ civil rights, dignity and humanity, but instead getting kickbacks from a hedge fund (which was probably already taking large fees in the first place compared to its returns) essentially stealing from the people he was supposed to represent.

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      BCDFGSoapBoxcarWillie
      6/09/16 7:56am

      Here’s the problem: most of the prosecutions you’d *like* Seabrook to take the fall for —the beatings, drug smuggling, and staged inmate fights— would be prosecuted by a local DA (most likely, the Bronx DA). None of them would ever think of doing that, though, since the easiest way to lose your entire caseload would be to piss off DOC staff to the point where they prevent defendants from going to trial.

      Really, Bharara had to shoehorn Seabrook into what’s clearly a long-term securities case against Platinum. Even then, Platinum’s practices are disgusting (they set up funds that benefited by signing up terminally ill patients for life insurance, then collecting), but they were not illegal per se.

      It looks to me that Platinum got into trouble off the generous payouts they promised, which may have been backed up by multiple Ponzi schemes —and in Seabrook 's case, by using seduction and bribery to get him to beach fiduciary duty.

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    AnastraceBrendan O'Connor
    6/08/16 9:40am

    Some people may point to this, and say see unions are corrupt. If there had been no union, this guy would have still made this illegal investment. Corruption knows no affiliation beyond it’s god, cash.

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      BCDFGAnastrace
      6/08/16 5:33pm

      The case with COBA and a lot of the law enforcement unions is that while they’re unions under the federal tax code, they only cover one city or one state and are not regulated by the U.S. Department of Labor.

      If that were the case, none of the stuff Seabrook is accused of —which is essentially taking one helluva kickback for an investment with marginal return— would have ever made it past a DOL audit. Ever since the days of the original Jimmy Hoffa, unions that fall under USDOL rules have to tally up all their assets on a Labor-Management report, where any relationships with management or outside vendors come out in the wash right away.

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    Dave Brendan O'Connor
    6/08/16 8:32am

    Ah, never change New York City politics! I love the smell of corruption in the morning, it’s smells like...a garbage fire in New Jersey!

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      Billy SuterDave
      6/08/16 9:10am
      GIF
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      Armando stillettoBilly Suter
      6/08/16 1:01pm

      We don’t like you either.

      - New Jersey

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    It takes a nation of millions to elect the corruptBrendan O'Connor
    6/08/16 8:58am

    I’m just shocked.

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      X37.9XXSBrendan O'Connor
      6/08/16 8:30am

      Cut!

      Que Capt. Renault

      And,...

      Action!

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