{"id":30675,"date":"2022-04-12T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=30675"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:36:08","slug":"ny-lt-gov-benjamin-arrested-in-campaign-donation-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/12\/ny-lt-gov-benjamin-arrested-in-campaign-donation-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Lt Gov Benjamin arrested in campaign donation scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has been arrested in a federal corruption investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Attorney\u2019s office said Benjamin was arrested Tuesday on charges of bribery, honest services wire fraud, and falsification of records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Benjamin, formerly a state senator from Harlem, had joined the administration of Gov. Kathy Hochul in September, chosen by her to fill her former job a couple of weeks after she stepped into the governorship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Benjamin is the state\u2019s second Black lieutenant governor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During his state Legislature career, the Democrat emphasized criminal justice reform and affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><i>Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2022\/04\/12\/ny-lt-gov-benjamin-arrested-campaign-donation-scheme\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has been arrested in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30677,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30675\/revisions\/30677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}