Black Democrat Ex-state Sen. Shirley Huntley recorded conversations for feds, court docs say; more arrests of pols on the way

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Disgraced former State Sen. Shirley Huntley, 74, "made numerous
recordings of meetings" with nine elected officials, staff
members and a consultant while serving her Queens district,
between June 2012 and August 2012, according to her sentencing
memorandum filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

The feds are poised to arrest more elected officials on
corruption charges next week, the Daily News has learned, as
prosecutors revealed Friday that a second state legislator has
been secretly recording conversations with colleagues.

Shirley Huntley, 74, �made numerous recordings of meetings� last
summer with seven elected officials, a staff member and a
consultant while serving as a Democratic state senator from
Queens, according to papers filed by prosecutors in Brooklyn
Federal Court.

The recordings �did yield evidence useful to law enforcement
authorities� about a state senator and two other elected
officials. The three officials were not named.

But Huntley�s undercover work was revealed as prosecutors have
intensified their investigation of another Democratic state
senator, former Majority Leader John Sampson (D-Brooklyn), The
News has learned.

Neither Sampson nor his lawyer, former Brooklyn U.S. Attorney
Zachary Carter, returned phone calls seeking comment.

Arrests stemming from investigations spearheaded by the feds and
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman could come as soon as Monday,
sources said.

Huntley is the second state lawmaker outed in five weeks as a
government rat who recorded conversations to get out from under
their own crimes.

Last month, it was revealed that Assemblyman Nelson Castro (D-
Bronx) wore a wire for more than three years under a deal with
prosecutors after he was charged with perjury.

Thanks to his undercover work, federal prosecutors based in
Manhattan brought bribery charges against Assemblyman Eric
Stevenson (D-Bronx). Castro has since resigned his seat.

Lawmakers in Albany were stunned and bewildered by disclosures
of Huntley�s secret work for prosecutors.

�I am surprised as anyone she wore a wire,� said one of
Huntley�s friends, Assemblywoman Vivian Cook (D-Queens).

�I�m just going to have to use sign language before I talk,� a
Democratic senator joked.

Huntley�s decision to cooperate with Brooklyn prosecutors came
last May when FBI agents confronted her with incrimination
evidence from a wiretap of her cell phone.

Despite her snitching, Huntley was not offered a cooperation
agreement because prosecutors did not believe she was fully
forthcoming about her own crimes.

Huntley, who was voted out of office last fall, pleaded guilty
in January to stealing more than $87,000 from a sham nonprofit
called Parents Information Network. She faces 18 to 24 months in
prison when she is sentenced next week.

Sampson has been the subject of multiple investigations,
including allegations that he accepted money from a shady real
estate broker and played a questionable role in the awarding of
a contract to operate a casino at Aqueduct Racetrack.


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