Cops
Take Bribes From Criminals For Gun Licenses
More laws
– More crime!
By de Andréa
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE
BOTTOM LINE’
Posted May 8, 2017
U.S. Justice
Department says police departments trade bribes for gun licenses
Among the criminal Communists in the American governments - local, state and federal - there is a growing cancer of destruction from the inside. A feverish conspiracy to destroy the American Dream and the bill of rights, as well as to create a ‘Reichstag’ of riots and murder to provoke martial law.
For years I have been writing about the ‘Shadow Government’ and the infiltration of Communists and Islamic Jihadist into our American governments and security departments while the officials look the other way. Few listened, and now as I said it eventually would, it is reaching the point of no return. The point in which the infiltrators begin taking over.
As they say: Everything begins in NY
Among the criminal Communists in the American governments - local, state and federal - there is a growing cancer of destruction from the inside. A feverish conspiracy to destroy the American Dream and the bill of rights, as well as to create a ‘Reichstag’ of riots and murder to provoke martial law.
For years I have been writing about the ‘Shadow Government’ and the infiltration of Communists and Islamic Jihadist into our American governments and security departments while the officials look the other way. Few listened, and now as I said it eventually would, it is reaching the point of no return. The point in which the infiltrators begin taking over.
As they say: Everything begins in NY
Some
greedy anti-American NYC cop infiltrators built an unofficial and illegal fast
lane into the NYPD’s gun licensing office.
Creating a legally armed criminal force in the streets of New York City.
In some states and locales it is easier for a felon to obtain a license to carry a gun than a law abiding citizen. But then isn’t that what the enemy of freedom wants?
New
Yorkers, who want a gun license, know the process will take months, if not
years, or never, as New York Police Department officers review their mental
health and criminal histories, they interview them in person, and even though
exercising ones God given rights isn’t based on need, they still work to verify, that in their opinion, they do
actually need a firearm, in the mean
time they are killed by a criminal with a license to carry. Or’ let’s call it
what it is in some cases - A LICENSE TO KILL!
New
Yorkers who know the right cop, can circumvent the whole process. Put a couple
thousand bucks in the right hands, and it doesn’t matter if you’ve got a long
rap sheet or multiple domestic violence reports in your past or even if you are
a terrorists: You’ll get your carry license with the NYPD’s stamp of approval…
Such
a two-track system has been operating for nearly a dozen years, federal and
city anti-corruption investigators said on Tuesday. Investigators say they’ve
been tracking the conspirators for last four plus years.
Under
Federal Rico Statutes, the corruption investigators name four key officers in
the NYPD License Division and multiple civilian “expediters” who they say acted
as middle-men between their cop friends and their gun-thirsty criminal clients.
The federal bribery and corruption charges detail a black
market for official favors
that is so stereotypically mobsterish that an HBO producer would laugh it off
as too truthful for television.
Expediters
sometimes paid cops in cash, but were just as likely to dish out favors — high-end booze, hired sex
workers at after-hours parties, free vacations to the Bahamas, and
the like — to keep
their NYPD colleagues happy, prosecutors claim. One of the cops allegedly took
to even smaller-time fare: after getting a bagel shop owner’s permit through the system, he never
paid for breakfast again.
The
details of the conspiracy — to
which all but one of the men charged Tuesday has pleaded guilty — are humorous. But its costs are not.
“They approved licenses for individuals with
substantial criminal histories, including arrests and convictions for crimes
involving weapons or violence, and for individuals with histories of domestic
violence,” FBI
agent Joseph Downs writes in one of the four criminal complaints.
One
man who bribed his way to a gun license had multiple prior assault convictions,
an arrest for rape, and several “domestic incident reports,” which are supposed
to disqualify a person from getting a gun permit in New York. In one of the
domestic violence incidents, he had threatened to kill someone.
The
License Division cops did not limit their graft to approving initial
applications for would-be gun owners—they also helped expediter clients keep
their weapons when circumstances would normally have led the city to revoke a
license, according to investigators.
One
client, a liquor distributor, was arrested twice for violent incidents
subsequent to the bribe-induced license to carry a gun — episodes that trigger an official
review of the arrestee’s
gun license. In both cases, cops involved in the conspiracy ushered the
incident review through to re-approve the client’s license and made sure he got
his gun back, even though he had brandished it at a customer in one of the
incidents that led to an arrest.
The
cops include retired Lieutenant Paul Dean, who was one of the two most senior
officers at the License Division, and retired Officer Robert Espinel, who
prosecutors identified as Dean’s primary henchman. The two men had long
experience taking bribes from expediters like Shaya Lichtenstein, Frank Soohoo,
and John Chambers, in exchange for passing applications through the system
without doing any of the work required by New York City’s gun laws.
Tired
of doing all the paperwork while the civilian middle-men got most of the
profit, Dean and Espinel hatched a plan to retire from the NYPD and take over
the entire license-expediting racket city-wide using their connections in their
old office. That ambitious power-grab may have caused their downfall.
Lichtenstein, who particularly enraged Espinel because his client rates were
far higher than the bribes he paid, had started recording his conversations
with NYPD co-conspirators.
It
appears Dean and Espinel had two other officers inside the License Division
helping them. Two of the civilian “expediters” they worked with had previously
worked in city law enforcement — one
for NYPD and the other as a prosecutor in Brooklyn. With just a half-dozen men,
investigators say, the group was able to pervert the 40-person License
Division, which is supposed to be the front line of enforcing New York City’s
relatively strict gun laws.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The leaders of the License Division
have been cheating the system for years, in increasingly brazen fashion, no
telling how many other states and cities have been doing the same thing. As I said it always begins in New York. The conspiracy undermines the integrity of
gun licensing and incident investigations involving legal gun owners. All it
took was some rich people who wanted protection from stringent sentencing laws
for unlicensed firearms in New York, and a couple of cops willing to abandon
their public responsibility for cash envelopes and top-shelf liquor. This is what happens when an
un-constitutional law is created. More Laws – More Crime.
There
are more than 30,000 sworn officers in the NYPD. They routinely encounter
people who have guns they should not have, according to city and federal law,
and seek to punish those illegal gun owners accordingly. But the same institution has been infiltrated
and allowed a special-access tunnel to be built around those criminal laws,
whereby the wealthy and connected can carry a gun without fearing the long
tacked-on sentences that come with unlicensed firearms.
This
my friend is what happens when we ignore the laws of the Republic that the
original architects wrote into the U.S. Constitution. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security
of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Has it been infringed?
The very idea the one must get permission and obtain a
license to exercise ones right is an infringement, and nullifies that right,
making it a privilege sold by the very government officials that are elected to
uphold the constitution and the laws of the land.
So far, five states have repealed all or most of their
unconstitutional illegal anti-gun laws following the lead of the state of
Vermont which has never had a law against guns, not since 1776. NO LICENSE REQUIRED! And
it has among the lowest violent crime rates in the country.
That’s what happens when you respect Constitutional law…
Thanks
for listening. Now go do the right thing and fight f or freedom.
-
de Andréa
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