Caribbean American New York City Public Advocate, Jumaane Williams, a candidate for Governor of New York in June’s Democratic Primary, on Tuesday strongly criticized Gov. Kathy Hochul after she accepted the resignation of Lieutenant Gov. Brian Benjamin on indictment of bribery and related offenses.
Damian Williams, another Caribbean American, who is the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced earlier on Tuesday that Benjamin, the son of a Guyanese mother and Jamaican father, was charged with bribery, honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to commit those offenses, “based on his use of his official authority while a New York state senator to direct a state-funded grant to an organization controlled by a real estate developer (‘CC-1’) in exchange for campaign contributions made and procured by CC-1”.
