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The Harlem investor in the Benjamin campaign finance scheme

Photo: Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock Lieutenant Governor Brian A. Benjamin resigned this afternoon, just hours after he was arrested and charged in Manhattan federal court with bribery, fraud, and falsification of records in connection with his unsuccessful 2021 run for New York City comptroller. The indictment accuses Benjamin of conspiring “to direct a state-funded grant to an… Read More »