New York Daily News

Seabrook: Bribes? I won $20G at casino

- Victoria Bekiempis

FORMER CORRECTION union boss Norman Seabrook has a perfectly good explanatio­n for having some $20,000 in his home safe — he won it at a casino, a new court filing suggests.

Seabrook faces charges for allegedly accepting a $60,000 cash bribe so he would push $20 million in union pension money to a sketchy hedge fund named Platinum Partners. Murray Huberfeld, who had helmed Platinum Partners, also faces charges in the alleged kickback scheme.

When the feds raided Seabrook’s Bronx home on June 8, 2016 — the same day as his arrest — they seized $28,700 in cash, Manhattan Federal Court papers state.

Most of the money — $22,350 — was collected from a safe in Seabrook’s bedroom, according to his lawyer, Paul Shechtman.

“Notably, at the same time, the government seized three Mohegan Sun gambling receipts . . . for a total of $20,500, all cash winnings,” Shectman claims in a court filing on Monday.

Seabrook’s lucky streak included $7,000 on Jan. 28, 2015; $6,000 on May 13, 2015, and $7,500 on Sept. 30, 2015, Schectman said.

 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States