Hotel owner charged with bribing Adams’ ex-chief of staff can’t leave the five boroughs, judge says. Except for the World Cup final
A Brooklyn federal judge allowed hotel owner Yan Po Zhu, charged with bribing ex-Adams aide Frank Carone, to attend the World Cup final at MetLife Stadium.
Hotel owner charged with bribing Adams’ ex-chief of staff can’t leave the five boroughs, judge says. Except for the World Cup final
A Brooklyn federal judge allowed hotel owner Yan Po Zhu, charged with bribing ex-Adams aide Frank Carone, to attend the World Cup final at MetLife Stadium.
A Brooklyn federal judge gave Yan Po Zhu, a hotel owner charged with bribing former Eric Adams chief of staff Frank Carone, permission to leave the five boroughs to attend the World Cup final at MetLife Stadium, the New York Daily News reported.
Zhu, who also goes by Andy Zhu, is out on $8 million bond while awaiting trial on charges he manipulated the city’s migrant crisis for financial gain. His release conditions otherwise bar him from traveling outside the five boroughs, Westchester, or Long Island. Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto granted the exception after Zhu’s lawyer made the request during a status conference Wednesday, according to the Daily News.
Carone is accused of taking $120,000 in bribes to steer an emergency shelter contract to the Microtel, a 75-room hotel Zhu owns on 40th Ave. near 29th St. in Long Island City. Zhu, Carone, Carone’s brother Anthony, and Zhu’s employee Crystal Chen were all indicted about a week before Wednesday’s conference and have each pleaded not guilty, the Daily News reported.
Wednesday’s status conference was about scheduling. The Carone brothers want to move quickly to trial and are opposing any pause to the federal court’s 70-day speedy-trial clock…
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