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Feds Raid Espada’s Bronx Office


Investigators raided the office of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. early Wednesday morning to remove documents and campaign-related material as part of several ongoing investigations into the Bronx Democrat.

Authorities descended on the Soundview Health Center on White Plains Road around 6:30 a.m.

Investigators from the FBI, IRS and Attorney General’s office collaborated in the effort and retrieved boxes of evidence.

The raid comes the morning after jaw-dropping charges were levied against  Espada.

The state Senator is charged with spending $14 million in charitable assets on political campaigns, fancy trips and fine food.

Espada’s gargantuan appetite for sushi from two Mamaroneck restaurants apparently ended up giving him a massive case of political indigestion.

According to the attorney general the Espadas ordered $20,000 worth of sushi — 200 individual meals — that was delivered from the restaurants to the Mamaroneck house about a mile away.

CBS 2 HD first reported that Espada, seen on video hiding from them in an orange ski hat outside his $700,000 Mamaroneck home, didn’t live in his Bronx district.

“I think it would be a fairly safe assumption that if he was ordering meals in Mamaroneck and the meals were being delivered to the home in Mamaroneck he was in the home in Mamaroneck,” Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said.

On Tuesday Cuomo said the meal expenses were among some $14 million looted from the Soundview Health Clinic Espada runs in a poor neighborhood of the Bronx.

Espada had this to say:

“There should be no rush to judgment until the facts emerge,” Espada said. “I would like to remind everyone, including my fellow elected officials, that just like you I deserve the opportunity to address this complaint, this civil complaint, in the proper forum.

“(Cuomo) had to find something, not because he was duty bound to find something, because politically he had to find something,” Espada said.

Attorney General Cuomo said that while civil charges were filed Tuesday he expects criminal charges would be filed soon. “Stay tuned,” he said.

Despite the charges Espada said he intends to run for re-election from the Bronx.

(Read More: WCBSTV)



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