Queens councilman, Ruben Wills was arrested
Wednesday on charges of stealing $30,500 in government money, and using
some of it for shopping trips to Nordstrom and Century 21 and the
purchase of a $750 Vuitton bag at Macy’s. His charges
included scheming to defraud, grand larceny and falsifying business
records. A relative, Jelani Mills, of St. Albans, Queens, also was
charged.
Former state Sen. Shirley Huntley, for whom Wills once worked
as chief of staff also had a role in Wednesday’s charges. Huntley
steered a $33,000 legislative appropriation known as a “member item” to a
charity Wills controlled, New York 4 Life, which had vowed to use the
money to attack childhood obesity, help single dads and moms, and
revitalize neighborhoods. Huntley has been convicted and sentenced to a
year behind bars on unrelated charges of stealing $88,000 from a
separate taxpayer-funded charity she controlled. Your Thoughts?
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