Manhattan GOP leader ‘freaked out’ after being offered bribe
The head of Manhattan’s Republican Party said Wednesday he “freaked out” after being offered a $25,000 bribe to help Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith secure the Republican line in last year’s...
View ArticleHalloran allegedly tried to give away a congressional seat for $15K
For $15,000, you can own your own congressional seat! That’s what ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran allegedly gloated in 2012 while offering the unique opportunity to a crooked Rockland County developer....
View ArticleHalloran says secret recording proves his innocence
Former City Councilman Dan Halloran says he was never a crooked politician — and he has his own secret tape to prove it. While federal officials were building a corruption case against Halloran, the...
View ArticleHalloran to take the stand in corruption trial
A former city councilman on trial for corruption hopes to win jury points with his next witness — himself. Dan Halloran plans to take the stand in his own defense Thursday in a risky bid to clear his...
View ArticleHalloran emphasizes brain tumor on the stand
A former Queens city councilman took the stand at his own corruption trial Thursday, and tried to play the sympathy card. Dan Halloran, who is accused of taking bribe money to help get a fellow...
View ArticleJuror cut loose from Halloran’s trial thought he was guilty
A juror cut loose Friday from the corruption trial of ex-Councilman Dan Halloran said he would have found the accused pol guilty of brokering bribes to get Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican mayoral...
View ArticleHalloran happy juror who thinks he’s guilty was released
So he’s got that going for him. Ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran said Monday he’s elated that a Dutchess County man is no longer serving as a juror at his federal corruption trial because the released...
View ArticleJudge rips credibility, stalling from Halloran’s lawyer
A federal judge on Tuesday lashed into the lawyer for indicted ex-Councilman Dan Halloran, ripping him for revising his defense playbook at the 11th-hour by dragging former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s...
View ArticleHalloran admits he took $10K from undercover FBI agent
As ex-Queens Councilman Dan Halloran finished his sixth and final day on the stand at his federal corruption trial Thursday prosecutors got him to admit that he took $10,000 in cash from an undercover...
View ArticleDan Halloran guilty of masterminding failed $200K bribery scheme
Former City Councilman Dan Halloran was found guilty Tuesday of masterminding a failed $200,000 bribery scheme to get Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith the Republican line in last year’s mayoral...
View ArticleDisgraced pol Dan Halloran wants to be a scuba instructor
With his political and legal careers deep-sixed, disgraced ex-City Councilman and Pagan “Prince” Dan Halloran wants to go deep-sea. Halloran’s lawyer Jonathan Edelstein in legal papers Wednesday noted...
View ArticleAfter taking down Wall Street, Preet sets his sights on Albany
Attention, Albany: There’s a new sheriff in town. US Attorney Preet Bharara — who has carved a name for himself by posting an 85-1 financial-crimes conviction record since 2009 — is setting his sights...
View ArticleHalloran defends Silver amid corruption charges
Politics may make strange bedfellows, but criminal charges make even stranger ones. Crooked ex-Councilman Dan Halloran crossed party lines on Facebook to defend Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver against...
View ArticleEx-Councilman Dan Halloran gets 10 years for bribery scheme
Saying former City Councilman Dan Halloran knowingly perjured himself at trial, a federal judge threw the book at the disgraced politician on Wednesday — sentencing him to 10 years behind bars for...
View ArticleFormer mayor found guilty of public corruption
The former mayor of a small Rockland County village was found guilty Monday of public corruption charges — brought down by the same crooked developer who helped land similar convictions for federal...
View ArticleCourt shoots down Halloran’s bid to stay out of jail during appeal
A federal appeals court shot down ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran’s bid to stay out of prison on bail while he appeals his bribery conviction — in a decision that also casts doubt on his chances for a...
View ArticleEx-Councilman Dan Halloran dodges prison for one more week
Former City Councilman Dan Halloran was granted an extra week of freedom Monday before he starts a 10-year prison sentence on a bribery conviction. Halloran — who was found guilty last year of...
View ArticlePagan ‘prince’ politician won’t have his prison term tossed
Disgraced ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran just lost his bid to get his 10-year prison sentence tossed. The New York federal appeals court denied the pagan ex-politician’s request in a decision released...
View ArticleFormer mayor’s corruption appeal rejected
The former Spring Valley mayor who was busted alongside ex-state Sen. Malcolm Smith and former Queens Councilman Dan Halloran lost her bid Monday to get her bribery conviction tossed. Noramie Jasmin...
View ArticleDisgraced ex-councilman says he’s a ‘political prisoner’
Dan Halloran, the pagan practitioner and ex-City Councilman in prison for his role in a mayoral bribery scheme, is now whining that he’s an “American political prisoner.” A group calling itself “Team...
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