Corrupt politicians

Corrupt politicians are like cockroaches.  Here are two smelly ones that have been brought kicking and screaming from the slimy gutters they dwell in, into the glare of sunlight.   One is a Democrat the other is a Republican.  

From NYDailyNews:
Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress, days after pleading guilty to tax evasion: sources 
EXCLUSIVE: The Staten Island Republican, who won reelection in the fall despite a pending federal case, has decided to vacate his seat, after speaking with Rep. John Boehner. He pleaded guilty to a tax evasion charge in federal court last week....
Rep. Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress in the wake of his guilty plea on a felony tax evasion charge, sources told the Daily News Monday night....

.... Before his plea, Grimm had been scheduled to go on trial Feb. 2 on charges of evading taxes by hiding more than $1 million in receipts and wages at Healthalicious, a Manhattan restaurant he owned before he was elected to Congress in 2010.....

 From NYTimes:
U.S. Said to Investigate Sheldon Silver, New York Assembly Speaker, Over Payments

Federal authorities are investigating substantial payments made to the State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, by a small law firm that seeks real estate tax reductions for commercial and residential properties in New York City, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Prosecutors from the United States attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have found that the law firm, Goldberg & Iryami, P.C., has paid Mr. Silver the sums over roughly a decade, but that he did not list that income on his annual financial disclosure forms, as required, the people said.....

.....Mr. Jacob, in a 2009 letter to East River shareholders, noted that the city had raised the development’s assessment to $28 million, and that its tax certiorari lawyer “was very successful in reducing what could have been a $3,000,000 increase to a $750,000 increase” in taxes.....