| Former state Sen. Malcolm Smith found guilty in bid to bribe his way on to the mayoral ballot New York Daily News, by Dareh Gregorian |
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| Another one bites the dust. Former state Sen. Malcolm Smith was convicted Thursday of operating a big buck bribery scheme aimed at getting him elected mayor of New York City. A jury convicted Smith and former Queens GOP leader Vincent Tabone in the scheme, which involved getting the once-powerful Democratic majority leader on the GOP line for the 2013 mayoral race. Assistant U.S. Attorney Perry Carbone had described the case to jurors as a story “about a man who wanted to be mayor and the men who were willing to be bought.” He accused Smith of having engineered a $200,000 |
