Bronx City Councilman Larry Seabrook has been indicted on thirteen counts of money laundering, extortion, and fraud. According to the Times, his corrupt schemes were not always entirely well thought-out:
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The conduct alleged in the indictment ranges from the ambitious to the nearly silly: from extorting payments from a close associate to help win the boiler contract to altering a $7 receipt for a bagel sandwich and diet soda so that Mr. Seabrook was reimbursed $177 for the purchase.
