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Questions About City Councilman's Nonprofit Group

2009_06_larrys.jpg If you haven't had enough of (alleged!) Bronx corruption, here's more: The NY Times wonders where over $100,000 in rent payments to a nonprofit affiliated with City Councilman Larry Seabrook (D-Bronx) has gone. The Times reports even though Seabrook and two associates "incorporated...the African-American Bronx Unity Day Parade" as a nonprofit, "It has never received I.R.S. approval to actually operate as a nonprofit. It has never filed a tax return. And, it seems, it has never run a parade. But in recent years it has netted more than $100,000 in city money by leasing space at one price from Bronx landlords and then subleasing it at a far higher price to three nonprofit groups whose rents were later reimbursed by the city." The Times also has a handy graphic that tries to account for the money. Last year, the Village Voice looked at Seabrook's history of being investigated, recalling a 1986 incident, "Apparently annoyed that a Village-based newspaper was poking around his affairs, Seabrook waved away [reporter William] Bastone and a photographer when they approached him outside his Bronx office. 'Now don't you two go and get AIDS,' he said by way of good-bye."

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  • NannyState

    Classic scam. Dude's old school. Does he still get his suits at S&H?

  • inoyourider

    GO TO JAIL

  • r1b2

    If it smells like a turd, it may well be a turd.

  • longacre

    'Now don't you two go and get AIDS'

    This actually wasn't that offensive in 1986. Even Eddie Murphy was making AIDS jokes in his stand-up routines back then.

  • I'm shocked, shocked to find grand larceny going on in a house of thieves!

  • Bubba

    Every single member of the city council is a bum and a crook. Don't tell me that there's one or two good and honest members of the city council. At the very least, the so-called honest members turn a blind eye and allow thieves like Larry Seabrook to plunder OUR treasury. Let's start recall petitions on each and every member of the city council. And while we're at it, let's dump each and every bum up in Albany.

  • jibbly

    Remember boys and girls, someone has been voting these classy politicians into office!

  • resa

    Charming!

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