A politician has been arrested by the FBI for corruption, but you won’t hear much about it because guess what? It’s a Democrat…
Watch below:
From the Sun Sentinel:
Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who was removed from office Friday after being snared in an FBI sting, solicited illegal campaign contributions not only for herself but for two political allies, court documents say.
Gov. Rick Scott suspended Cooper on Friday, a day after she was arrested and accused of accepting contributions funneled through Alan Koslow, a once prominent attorney who has since been disbarred after a conviction on federal charges.
In August 2012, undercover agents handed Koslow a Dunkin’ Donuts bag filled with $8,000 in cash – all in $100 bills, investigators said in court records.
Here’s more about how they nabbed her:
The mayor met with people she thought were wealthy developers from California, court documents say. They were actually undercover FBI agents pretending to seek political favor for a project in Hallandale Beach.
Koslow told the undercover agents he had influence with the city commission and “had the vote of the mayor,” court documents show.
Koslow declined to comment Friday.
The agents met with Cooper and Koslow over several months in 2012 and secretly recorded their meetings, court records say. Koslow did not become aware his developer pals were FBI agents until August 2013, when they confronted him in a Fort Lauderdale hotel room, records show.
During a meeting in July 2012 between Cooper, the undercover agents and Koslow, Cooper was recorded saying she and two other commissioners were a “team of three” and could ensure a favorable result for their project, according to the arrest affidavit. The meeting took place in City Hall.
She says she’s gonna fight it, but the FBI case sounds pretty strong….