
Federal prosecutors in New York have accused 70 current and former employees of the nation’s largest public housing authority of bribery and extortion for allegedly pocketing more than $2 million in cash payments for no-bid repair contracts. In what Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, called “the largest single-day bribery takedown in the history of the Justice Department,” the scheme involved nearly a third of New York City’s 335 public housing developments – home to one in 17 New Yorkers. The defendants, arrested in...