The Village Voice, April 23rd, 2002
Looking Back at the Quixotic Brooklyn Councilmember FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ALLEGE IN A 15-COUNT INDICTMENT THAT CITY COUNCILMAN ANGEL RODRIGUEZ AND A LONGTIME FRIEND, JONATHAN MORALES, ATTEMPTED TO EXTORT $1.5 MILLION IN LAND, AND $50,000 IN CASH, FROM A RED HOOK DEVELOPER, GREG O'CONNELL, A FORMER POLICE DETECTIVE, IN EXCHANGE FOR RODRIGUEZ'S SUPPORT FOR A FAIRWAY SUPERMARKET that O'Connell wants to bring to the neighborhood. Rodriguez's arrest came on the heels of an attempt in January to become City Council Speaker, a post which, had he won it, would have made him the second most powerful ma...
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