Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara gave himself a hand on Twitter Friday for successfully prosecuting disgraced state Sen. Malcolm Smith and his crooked cronies three years ago.
“Tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of arrest of Sen. Malcom [sic] Smith and
5 others on corruption charges. All convicted,” the prosecutor wrote.
Smith, ex-Queens City Councilman Dan Halloran and Republican county leaders Joseph Savino and Vincent Tabone were busted in a $200,000 bribery scheme to rig the 2013 mayoral election.
Noramie Jasmin and Joseph Desmaret, the former mayor and deputy mayor of Spring Valley in Rockland County, were also nabbed.
Smith is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence while Halloran got 10 years.
And all but Savino, who hasn’t been sentenced yet, received prison time.
Bharara followed up by quoting himself from a press conference announcing the arrests.
“ ‘Putting dirty politicians in prison may be necessary but it is not sufficient.’ Still true,” he added.