"NYCHA Corruption: 70 Employees Arrested in Bribery Scandal"

70 current and former employees of the New York City Housing Authority, including residents from Westchester and Rockland, were arrested for allegedly accepting cash payments from contractors in exchange for Housing Authority contracts. The charges, the largest number of federal bribery charges given on a single day in the history of the U.S. Justice Department, involved a total of over $2 million in illegal payments from contractors to grant over $13 million worth of no-bid contracts. The defendants could face up to 10 years in prison for the bribe charge and 20 years for the extortion charge.