Assemblyman Eric Stevenson
A Democratic assemblyman from the Bronx was busted this morning for allegedly pocketing envelopes of cash to push legislation in Albany — marking the second corruption case against a state legislator this week.
Assemblyman Eric Stevenson got caught in a sting operation in which two co-defendants paid bribes to another, unidentified assemblyman who was cooperating with authorities, according to the Manhattan US Attorney's Office.
Sources have identified the other lawmaker as Nelson Castro, D-Bronx.
Court papers say he's been charged in a sealed indictment in Bronx criminal court, and has been cooperating for more than a year as part of a deal in which he will step down in disgrace to avoid prosecution.
In addition to Castro, the complaint against Stevenson says a cooperating witness in the case is also a pol "who has previously run as a candidate for the New York State Assembly."
"Stevenson solicited, agreed to accept, and accepted cash payments totaling more than approximately $20,000," according to the federal criminal complaint.
Stevenson's four co-defendants run adult daycare centers in the Bronx and Westchester County and they paid off the Bronx Democrat for various favors, feds said.
The four got Stevenson's help to reach ConEd and "expedite the installation of a gas line" at a center on Jerome Avenue, officials said. Stevenson also reached out the the city's Buildings Department to gain a certificate of occupancy for his pals, according to prosecutors.
The alleged scheme also called for Stevenson's help to block building plans in neighborhoods around his co-defendants' centers — thus rubbing out the competition.
Prosecutors said that co-defendants paid for "Stevenson's assistance drafting, proposing and enacting legislation that would establish a temporary moratorium on the construction and/or opening of new adult daycare centers which would have the effect of eliminating competition with the Jerome Avenue Center and the Westchester Avenue Center, thereby substantially increasing the profits earned by these two centers."
The complaint notes that Stevenson and his co-defendants discussed naming one of the centers after Stevenson's grandfather, the late Assemblyman Edward Stevenson Sr., who once held the seat Stevenson now occupies.
In January, Stevenson allegedly met with the cooperating witness and said he was worried that one of his co-defendants, Igor Tsimerman, "might be recording their conversations."
"Stevenson expressed concern that 'they bring me down' and said that if that happened, 'somebody's going to the cemetery,'" the complaint charges.
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