In NYCHA Extortion Take Down Buckner Pled to $25000 Bribery Felony Asks Time Served

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SDNY COURTHOUSEOct 4 – For days Inner City Press had heard from its sources there would be a “takedown” on February 6, each SDNY Magistrate Judge would handle seven to 10 defendants.

Arrests happen at 6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City Press tweeted it, first to X subscribers with the spoiler alert: the expectation was that each of the current or former NYCHA employees would be released on bond the same day.

And then hours later at 9:39 am the prosecutors announced it. Media rushed around reporting it. Inner City Press had it first, and after discretely waiting, published it first. Then this thread of presentations, here.

On May 7, amid guilty pleas by others, Vernon Chambers pleaded guilty – to a misdemeanor; The Information lists $5,500 in bribes for contracts worth $24,000. His sentencing control date is August 20.

On June 6, James Miller was convicted before District Judge Vernon S. Broderick of a felony, bribes of $86,500. His sentencing is set for October 2 at 11 am.

On June 12, Marc Buckner was convicted of bribes of $25,000 for contracts worth $235,000. He sentencing was set for October 16, 2024.

That case is US v. Buckner, 24-cr-380 (Failla)

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