U.S. Attorney Warns Crooked New York Pols To Watch Their Backs

U.S. Attorney Warns Crooked NY Pols To Watch Their Backs
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara gestures to a chart during a news conference in New York, Thursday, April 4, 2013. New York state Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, a Democrat, was arrested in a bribery investigation that also led another state assemblyman charged with crimes to cooperate with the understanding that he would resign his position with the arrests of Stevenson and four other defendants.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara gestures to a chart during a news conference in New York, Thursday, April 4, 2013. New York state Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, a Democrat, was arrested in a bribery investigation that also led another state assemblyman charged with crimes to cooperate with the understanding that he would resign his position with the arrests of Stevenson and four other defendants.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK -- U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara sent a shot across the bow of Albany on Thursday, warning New York's corrupt politicians that they should be living in fear that their colleagues were working with authorities.

Bharara once again condemned the "pervasive corruption" of Albany as he announced that Bronx Assemblymen Eric Stevenson had been charged with selling the most basic functions of his office in exchange for envelopes stuffed with cash.

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