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Feds charge Assemb. Eric Stevenson with bribery

Bronx Assemb. Eric Stevenson, left, with attorney Murray

Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | Bronx Assemb. Eric Stevenson, left, with attorney Murray Richman, leaves federal court in Manhattan after his arraignment Thursday. (April 4, 2013)

In the second major New York political corruption case this week, federal prosecutors Thursday charged a Bronx assemblyman with taking $22,000 in bribes from a businessman he called "Santa" and said that another legislator facing charges had assisted their investigation as a wire-wearing informant.

Bronx Democrat Eric Stevenson, charged with bribe-taking that included $4,500 delivered in an...

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