CORRUPTION PROBE EXPOSED: Judge Weinstein orders naming of 9 Dems secretly taped
Nine New York City Democrats, including state senators, a city council member and two political operatives, were secretly recorded by a former lawmaker seeking leniency for her role in a corruption scandal, and nearly all of them are under criminal investigation, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
Release of the names was ordered by Judge Jack Weinstein of the Federal court in Brooklyn, after news organizations requested them.
“Every legislator who has conversed with this defendant will necessarily assume that he or she was recorded,” he wrote. “There will be no surprises to the potentially accused by the revelations of their names.”