You forgot hookers — Blaz donor
After eight days on the stand, corrupt Mayor de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz ran out of patience and helped a defense attorney complete a list of his many misdeeds.
“You’re missing jewelry and hookers,” Rechnitz said in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday, drawing guffaws from the audience filled with people who loathe him.
The comment came as Susan Necheles, a lawyer for police buff Jeremy Reichberg, wrote a list titled “alleged bribes” that was shown to a jury.
Rechnitz’s bribes were broken down into categories: gifts, meals, entertainment and trips.
“You should put ‘hookers’ everywhere,” Rechnitz said, later correcting himself to say he did not use prostitutes as bribes while on trips to Los Angeles and Israel.
Rechnitz is testifying against Reichberg, his former friend, and ex-NYPD Deputy Inspector James (Jimmy) Grant. Rechnitz has said he donated more than $100,000 to de Blasio’s pet causes early in the mayor’s tenure in exchange for access to City Hall. Rechnitz also says he and Reichberg showered cops, including Grant, with gifts in exchange for police favors that made them look like big shots.
The gifts, according to Rechnitz, included a prostitute on a 2013 private flight to Las Vegas, as well as call girls on trips to the Dominican Republic and Miami for a Southeast Conference bowl game.