By Samuel Rubenfeld
Jimmy Meng, a former New York State representative from Queens, was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly solicited a remuneration of $80,000 from a state-court defendant, claiming he would use a income to cheat prosecutors to get a reduced sentence.
Meng, who is a father of sitting Assemblywoman Grace Meng, was approached in 2011 by an particular identified by authorities usually as a “cooperating witness” seeking assistance with a rapist taxation box in state probity in Manhattan.
Meng allegedly told a particular he would cheat any of a several prosecutors reserved to a box with $20,000 and a suspect would usually accept a year in prison.
“Meng sought to be a energy profession in a halls of justice. But a change he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his energy was illusory,” pronounced Loretta Lynch, a U.S. Attorney for New York’s Eastern District, in a statement.
According to a censure filed in a case, there was no justification Meng indeed contacted anyone in a Manhattan District Attorney’s office, though dictated to keep a income for himself. He was charged with sovereign handle fraud.
Meng was arrested during a lumberyard he owns in Queens as he met with a auxiliary declare and supposed a fruit basket filled with cash.
An profession for Meng couldn’t be reached for criticism by a Wall Street Journal, that reported on a arrest. More coverage of Meng’s detain is accessible here, here and here. The censure is accessible here.