This fresh Obama administration scandal involves Adolfo Carrion, Mr. Hope and Change’s “urban czar” (whatever the hell that is). It seems Mr. Carrion enjoyed taking bribes in exchange for doling out city contracts while working in da Bronx.
The man who is President Obama’s newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers’ money, a Daily News probe found.
Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion often received contributions just before or after he sponsored money for projects or approved important zoning changes, records show.
Most donations were organized and well-timed.
In one case, a developer became a Carrion fund-raiser two months before the borough president signed off on his project, raising more than $6,000 in campaign cash.
In another, eight Boricua College officials came up with $8,000 on the same day for Carrion three weeks before the school filed plans to build a new tower. Carrion ultimately approved the project and sponsored millions in taxpayer funds for it.
Carrion resigned as borough president effective Sunday and begins his new job as director of the White House Office on Urban Policy Monday.
Very nice. In all my years of following and blogging about politics I can’t remember so much corruption within a presidential administration being exposed in such a short period of time. Certainly Obama’s promise of Hope and Change is just another broken promise to add to a long collection.
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