Does Carlucci’s Relationship With Indicted Senator Answer Financial Questions?

These questions about how Carlucci found $96,000 to pay for a new house have been bugging me.  Where did the money come from?

Then someone reminded me about when the Journal Newsreported that Carlucci had to spend $17,000 on criminal lawyers just to cooperate with the FBI.  Maybe there’s more to that Malcolm Smith case than has been reported. Carlucci was cleared by the DA, but could there be more to it than has already been reported? I don’t know, but Carlucci should come clean about what his cooperation and involvement entailed.

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Carlucci & other politicians spent $7 Million in legal fees

Did you see the big story in Sunday’s Journal News about crooked politicians using their campaign contributions to hire their criminal defense lawyers? The Journal News said:

“Sen. David Carlucci, D-Clarkstown, showed about $17,700 in legal fees after he was named in a court document outlining federal charges against fellow Sen. Malcolm Smith, D-Queens, and top officials in Spring Valley.”

Is Carlucci telling the truth about cooperating fully?  It doesn’t cost $17,000 to truthfully cooperate about one meeting, does it?  What is Carlucci hiding?  Why isn’t he paying his lawyers out of his own pocket?  Is this why he helped the Republicans block campaign finance reform?

More on Carlucci and the Crooks

I wrote a couple of times about a report proving that Carlucci votes with an indicted Senator named John Sampson more than almostanybody else.  Well one of the others who voted with Sampson a lot is another crook named Malcolm Smith.  Smith is the same one who was indicted for bribery with the Mayor of Spring Valley.  And who was mentioned prominently in the court papers? DavidCarlucci.  While Carlucci was not chargedwith anything, he seems pretty cozy with the ones who were.

Carlucci’s Goes Along With Indicted Senator

 

Remember that report I wrote about last week that Carlucci voted with the pro-life Republican leadership in Albany 99% of the time?  I looked through it some more and found out that Carlucci was more likely to vote with John Sampson than all but three Senators.  Sampson was indicted for stealing money and of the two other Senators who voted with Sampson as much as Carlucci, one of them is Malcolm Smith, who was indicted for bribery.  What’s that about?   Why isn’t Carlucci standing up to these criminals?