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What to KnowA former NYC Board of Corrections member Julio Medina, who was additionally CEO of a agency referred to as Exodus, has been indicted for allegedly taking massive bribes to assist two others rip off thousands and thousands from a metropolis’s emergency housing program amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Medina, 64, is accused of “steering approximately $51 million in public funds” to a few businesspeople in change for $2.5 million in alleged kickback, the indictment filed by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn stated.Chistopher Dantzler allegedly ran an unlicensed safety agency acquired $21 million in contracts to supply safety to motels offering…

Performing U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon has resigned, a senior official mentioned Thursday. “Moments ago, I submitted my resignation to the attorney general. As I told her, it has been my greatest honor to represent the United States and to pursue justice as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. It has been privilege to be your colleague, and I will be watching with pride as you continue your service to the United States,” learn an e-mail from Sassoon, in keeping with an official who obtained the observe. The DOJ order to…