{"id":7819,"date":"2013-05-06T10:09:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=7819"},"modified":"2013-05-06T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:14:00","slug":"another-nys-pol-arrested-this-time-its-sen-john-sampson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/05\/06\/another-nys-pol-arrested-this-time-its-sen-john-sampson\/","title":{"rendered":"NYS Sen. John Sampson arrested on corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7821\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/05\/06\/another-nys-pol-arrested-this-time-its-sen-john-sampson\/sampson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7821\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7821\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7821\" title=\"Sampson\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/05\/Sampson-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/05\/Sampson-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/05\/Sampson-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/05\/Sampson-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/05\/Sampson.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. John Sampson greeting constituents at an open house. Photo via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/photos\/2013\/mar\/26\/senator-sampson-greets-constituents-his-annual-open-house\">nysenate.gov<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>So the news has just come down that yet another New York state politician has been taken into custody. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/brooklyn-state-sen-john-sampson-turns-article-1.1336016\">The New York Daily News reports<\/a> the Brooklyn Democrat and one-time senate minority leader was arrested for &#8220;taking illegal campaign donations in an ill-fated run for district attorney,&#8221; and also with &#8220;taking an illegal loan from a Queens businessman to repay money prosecutors say he embezzled from an escrow account he controlled as a lawyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s set to face a federal judge later today, and will be charged with obstruction of justice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/FBI-Sen-John-Sampson-arrested-4491330.php\">the Albany Times-Union reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Albany Times-Union&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/186462\/a-m-roundup-sampson-will-surrender-to-feds\/\">Capital Confidential post earlier today on Sampson&#8217;s case<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the news has just come down that yet another New York state politician has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1296,11481,11551,11550,10555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7822,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions\/7822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}