Article from Reason by C.J. Ciaramella.
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance spent nearly $250,000 over the past five years from a state asset forfeiture fund on fine dining, first-class airfare, and luxurious hotels, according to public records obtained by The City, a nonprofit news outlet in New York City.
While regular state employees, like the line prosecutors under Vance, are bound by strict travel and expense rules, Vance is under no such regulations, and his office controls more than $600 million in funds seized by New York law enforcement in civil and criminal cases.
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Notably, The City reports that Vance’s spending over that period dwarfs that of district attorneys in New York City’s other boroughs. The next highest spender was Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, who expensed $18,407 since taking office on Jan. 1, 2016.
Vance defended the spending in statements to The City, saying they were within the rules and involved travel to important policing and counter-terrorism conferences. Vance’s office has also spent $38 million in forfeiture funds to help local prosecutors across the country test rape kits.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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DemonRATS working hard to remove the 2nd Amendment they know why it was created..
Why is it that when they do these things it’s OK? But when others do it, how crap those others are crooked. I guess they’ve taken stuff from the Obama book, who trained most of America on how to rape, pillage and steal from the taxpayers, and come up with a great excuse for doing it.
Trash, immoral, unethical bas*rds, all of them.
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!
Gee the same group of DA’s that are after the President!!! Think they should give it up !!! Dirty Democrat Prosecutors !!!
This goes all the way to the top,they are ALL crooked. That is what ONE PARTY RULE will get you.
This goes all the way to the top,they are ALL crooked. That is what ONE PARTY RULE will get you.
I’d like to see Boss hog de Blasio’s expenditures.