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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com March 11, 2011
Feds: “Intimate” Male Partner Aided N.Y. Pol
By Advocate.com Editors
CARL KRUGER X390 (OFFICIAL) | ADVOCATE.COM
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Carl Kruger, the New York state
senator charged in a $1 million corruption scandal, received help from
people including an “intimate” partner, Manhattan gynecologist Michael
Turano.
Kruger, who voted against the marriage equality bill in 2009, is one of
eight men arrested in the complex influence-peddling scheme involving
lobbyists and developers over the last five years.
The Brooklyn Paper reports that, “According to the FBI complaint filed in
Manhattan Federal Court, people looking to gain Kruger’s help sent checks
to Turano’s Olympian Strategic Development Corporation and Bassett
Brokerage, a reference to the Mill Island street where Turano, his mother
and brother have a the multi-million dollar waterfront home.”
Although Michael’s mother Dorothy had appeared to be the unmarried Kruger’
s girlfriend, the complaint alleges that the Brooklyn Democrat had an “
intimate relationship” with her son. Following his vote against the
marriage equality bill two years ago, gay activists demonstrated outside the
home of Kruger and accused him of hiding his gay identity.
According to the Brooklyn paper, “Intercepting phone messages, FBI agents
learned that ‘Kruger was in nearly daily contact with Michael Turano’ and
that the two men spoke to each other ‘in a manner that revealed that they
relied on and supported one another.’ The clear suggestion is that Kruger
and Michael Turano are romantically involved.”
It remains unclear whether Kruger will keep his seat, but on Thursday he was
stripped of his role as the ranking member on the powerful senate finance
committee. |
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