The founder of a New York City nonprofit has pocketed $2.5 million worth of bribery bes, including two homes, luxury car loan payments and a stack of cash, to get two shady businessmen $51 million In exchange for piloting Covid funds, federal prosecutors argued.
Julio Medina, 64, founder and CEO of Exodus Transitional Community, said that hotel Big Apple Place prisoners will reduce prison populations during the pandemic and delay the spread of Covid-19 with city lockups It was helpful. Office.
Exodus accepted $122 million in public funds from the mayor's office to operate these hotels from June 2020 to December 2023, but Medina was co-defendant Christopher. It is said that $51 million was poured into a company run by Danzler, 49, and 59-year-old Wihon Hu. Kickback exchange, federal government was charged.
Danzler and Hu (who donated tens of thousands of people to the 2021 campaign, a fellow former mayor Eric Adams aide Winnie Greco) bought a Washington Heights townhouse for Medina $1.3 million. , purchased a home in Clifton Park, New York, and paid for the renovation. Prosecutors alleged that the total was $750,000, which was $750,000.
Hu provided over $50,000 in payments for Medina's car on a luxury vehicle worth $107,000 through her company, and Dantzler paid $75,000 in debt to Medina and her family through his business, according to the Fed. claimed.
Danztler's company is said to have received funds from Exodus to provide fake security services at the hotel, but his business is not a licensed security company and does not actually provide security services. Hmm, the prosecutor argued.
Hu's company runs two hotels in Queens and was also a member of the catering company that provided food service at the hotel, according to the Fed.
Prosecutors alleged that Who in Manhattan and Dantlezer in Baldwin, New York also gave Medina cash bribes.
Photos included in the indictment against the trio show Medina loading cash from HU, and by the time Exodus cut the catering company it cut two checks totaling over $187,000.
“It's embarrassing, the defendant saw the pandemic as an opportunity to line up pockets in cash, fund a luxury vehicle, buy a home and pay back personal debt,” said Brooklyn U.S. Attorney John. J. Durham said in a statement.
They were all charged with conspiracy to wire fraud, honest service wire fraud, and conspiracy to violate travel laws. If convicted of all charges, they will be up to 45 years behind the bar.
The trio was arrested in Brooklyn Federal Court on Thursday, with Judge James Cho setting bonds for $250,000 in Medina, $20 million in hu and $750,000 in Danzler.
“In my opinion, Ms. Hu is in many ways a 'victim' and not a co-conspirator,” Hu's lawyer Benjamin Brafman told the Post.
Lawyers for Medina and Danzler did not reply to requests for comment Friday.
– Additional report by Kyle Schnitzer
