Vishnu, was he that you refused to shake his hand at the first interfaith service @ Smokey Park?

Chief, come in!

I am here.

You know Ruben Wills, don't you?

Yep knew him when he started to run for the city council seat. As a matter of fact I assisted him during the campaign however after that did not see much of him. Actually met a few times at official functions.

What you think of him now that he get arrested?

It's time for a Guyanese to go for this seat if he vacates it.

At the time when I gave my support to him is because he was the best from among the others.  If he did misuse the funds then this has nothing to do of what I think, his ass will either do time or paya fine and then has to leave the City Council. 

All them Guyanese are serving their constituents in jail, bro.

I am not at all surprise. This GUy was very, very cocky. And many in RH(ASS KISSERS) were on him like flies on honey. I believe Chief is one of them. Correct me Bhai Chief if I am wrong.

I do not know of ass kissers but as I said he was the best of the pack. Who did you had that was better than him at the time he was running?

Cobra,

A second generation Guyanese can make it. 

So the majority of Guyanese in District 28 decided to support Mr WILLS, so how you arrive that they are ass kissers?

Farouk Samaroo is only young man who shows interest in politics. He get a good head on his shoulder, buy Stinger betrayed him and make him a pimp.

What majority?? People like who who like to put your mouth where the soup is leaking were behind him.  The Entertainers, Business people, the usual OPPORTUNISTS were all behind him NOT thje average Citizens!!!!!  I saw Vishnu refused to shake his hands at Smokey Park 2 years ago.

Man yuh high or what. Dat Fool can run a bloody Bodega!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah me family, bhai.

You cannot contain yourself without not using vile  remarks.

It's a civil discourse Cobra and I are having and here you come with your nonsense.

Sorry Bhai and thank you for calling me on Uncivilized display on GNI I will edit my post. Good to see we are so civilized on GNI

POst edited GNI is now on the path of better things.

You are dead wrong about Chiefsta and any affiliation with Wills.

I  voted for Obama but I'm not affiliated with him. Ipso facto Chief is not affiliated with Wills.

Chief confirmed his association with Wills but you are saying otherwise, beat the hell out of me.

And I have an association with Obama. You're just an unmitigated idiot. Kiss my ass you fool.

Vishnu see these guys as "Community Predators" and he also refuse to shake Ed Ahmad hands.

De same Ed Ahmad who get together with Jagdeo & Ramotar to rob the PPP  and Guyana Govt....and today own the The Mirror Head Quarters at Industrial Site and the Entire Lenora Estates Compound.

Vish, I saw you refusing to shake Wills hands at Smokey Park about 3 years ago and that Chap Haq was on him like ants on Honey.

Yes Sir and I thought it was Chief but Uncle Churchill cleared that up.

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Councilman Is Accused of Stealing Public Funds

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City Councilman Ruben Wills was led out of a police station house in Forest Hills, Queens, on Wednesday.          Credit          Uli Seit for The New York Times                 

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The charges brought on Wednesday against a New York City councilman accused of stealing thousands of dollars in taxpayer money had a familiar ring to them: a shell company, pilfered campaign funds, a department-store shopping spree with the spoils.

For jaded members of the City Council, watching yet another colleague taken into custody by law enforcement agents, the news was received less with shock than a sense of resignation. This again?

“Anytime anything like this happens it’s frustrating, because you know that some people use it to tarnish everybody,” said Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, a Democrat from Queens and the majority leader.

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The indictment unsealed against Councilman Ruben W. Wills, a Democrat who represents southeastern Queens, included multiple counts of fraud and grand larceny in connection with more than $30,000 in public funds that went missing from a charity Mr. Wills used to run. It also accused Mr. Wills and a relative, Jelani R. Mills, who was also arrested, of conspiring to steal public campaign funds by creating a fraudulent business.

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          Mr. Wills, a New York City Councilman, was arrested Wednesday on charges of misusing public funds. Mr. Mills, an associate, was charged with conspiring with the councilman.         

         

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Mr. Wills, in a brief and defiant appearance outside a Queens courthouse, denied the charges and said he would not resign.

“This is America,” he said, “and here you’re innocent until proven guilty.”

A lawyer for Mr. Mills said his client would be exonerated.

The case, announced by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, and the state comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, both Democrats, does not involve the use of any Council money.

Still, city legislators bristled at news of the arrest, which occurred hours before a scheduled hearing on reforming a system of Council earmarks — the abuse of which has contributed to the arrests of four members in the last several years.

“Every time someone is accused of corruption, it undermines the job we’re trying to do,” said Councilman Mark Weprin, a Queens Democrat.

Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Democrat from Manhattan, said in a statement that the Council “takes these troubling allegations from the New York State attorney general very seriously and will be reviewing them thoroughly.”

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Mr. Wills spoke to members of the press following his arraignment in Queens on Wednesday.          Credit          Uli Seit for The New York Times                 

While Mr. Wills maintained his innocence on Wednesday, he agreed to relinquish his chairmanship of a subcommittee on drug abuse, and officials say he will be prohibited from overseeing the distribution of Council funds to his district this year.

The schemes described in court documents involved an anti-obesity charity called New York 4 Life, the theft of thousands of dollars’ worth of property from a state child services agency and a $750 Louis Vuitton handbag bought at Macy’s.

According to the authorities, Mr. Wills obtained a $33,000 state grant to start up New York 4 Life. The money was earmarked to the group by former State Senator Shirley L. Huntley of Queens, who was later sentenced to prison in a separate corruption investigation.

Instead of using the grant for charitable purposes, according to documents, Mr. Wills spent more than half of it on shopping trips to Nordstrom and Century 21.

In a second episode, according to documents, the councilman abused a campaign finance system created specifically to control spending and avoid corruption. New York City provides matching funds to municipal candidates who agree to certain restrictions on campaign spending. Mr. Wills participated in the system but, according to documents, stole a portion of the matching money by creating a shell company — which he controlled — so he could claim campaign expenditures he never made.

In all, prosecutors say, Mr. Wills stole $30,500 in government funds from the city and the state.

Mr. Wills, a 42-year-old resident of Jamaica, Queens, was elected to the Council in 2010; he won his seat by just 626 votes. His diverse district — which spreads across Jamaica, Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park — has been roiled in recent years by political scandals and arrests.

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On Wednesday, Mr. Wills suggested that the attorney general had targeted him because of his background and his race. After proclaiming his innocence to reporters, Mr. Wills said, “I know because of where I come from and the color I am, it doesn’t usually work like that with you guys.”

Told of the accusation, Mr. Schneiderman, at a news conference in Manhattan, shook his head and dismissed the notion as “absurd.”

“We obviously are going after people of all races, colors and creeds when it comes to public integrity,” he said.

The indictment was not Mr. Wills’s first brush with the law.

In 2011, shortly after entering the Council, Mr. Wills acknowledged that he had ignored an outstanding arrest warrant stemming from a 1996 dispute involving a construction business he founded in 1992 at age 21. Another warrant was issued in a separate case in 2000 when Mr. Wills was accused of skipping court appearances.

Mr. Wills started the construction firm, R & W Painting and Contracting Company, after studying psychology and political science at Long Island University. He did not graduate.

The company was dissolved when he went to work for Ms. Huntley, a powerful figure in the city’s Democratic Party at the time. He served as her chief of staff from 2006 to 2008.

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Ms. Huntley was later sentenced to prison for stealing from a nonprofit organization she ran. That investigation also led to the indictment of another Queens politician, Malcolm A. Smith, a Democratic leader in the State Senate.

“If these charges are true, it will be a terrible disappointment to the incredibly worthy people of my district,” said State Senator James Sanders Jr., a Democrat whose Queens district overlaps with that of Mr. Wills.

“However,” Mr. Sanders added, “the councilman deserves his day in court. People must give him due process.”

Vish, "voting" here is used analagously. No one is saying he voted or not voted. Shitface mentioned "association" and I used "voting" as an example of "association".

And no one ever told you that you ARE a dunce?????

Like what Kari said......

simply Passed over

Whats-his-face head

Vish,

All Kari and Jalil are saying is that Nehru is foolish to associate me with Wills. You are well aware that as community leaders we interact with  several politicians along the way, we even meet some crooks as well.

You remember our  recent conversation about a certain person who I feel should never have been the head of a project.

Karhee is an IDIOT AND A CERTIFIED ASS KISSER!!!