Everyone thinks Vito Lopez is the Pedra Esapda of Brooklyn and I continue to say Vito Lopez could run Brooklyn from a prison cell but with friends like Charles Hynes who is grateful Lopez employed his daughter and the support of way too many Brooklynites that benefit big time from Lopez it appears nothing is going to happen --- so Vito does not have to run Brooklyn from a prison cell.
The word on the street is black mail -- Lopez had the goods on way too many people including Cuomo and Christine Quinn who shunted money to his Senior Center that appears to be run like Espada's health clinic but somehow when Hynes recused himself and handed over the case to the Staten Island DA --- Vito walked free.
Word is he has the dirt on Bloomberg and Sheldon Silver and look to real estate dealings.
How many years did it take to bust gangster Pedro Espada?
"Disgraced former State Sen. Pedro Espada helped himself to one more big payday, selling off tattered remains of his Bronx health clinic and pocketing the dough, prosecutors said in court papers unsealed today.
The US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn is asking a federal judge to revoke bail and lock up Espada, who was convicted earlier this year of using his Soundview Health Center as his personal slush fund.
Brooklyn federal judge Frederic Block ordered everyone to court for a hearing on Friday.
Following Espada’s May 14 conviction, state and federal authorities moved in and prevented the disgraced pol and his family from operating the clinic, which served poor patients in the south Bronx."
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/papers_espada_helped_himself_clinic_PM8xmAwCL6ukCx4zOmq9vK#ixzz26wRMqcBM
Plus this dirt on Espada http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/156669/new-problems-for-pedro-espada/
