New York - GOP Operative Charged With Stealing From Bloomberg Campaign

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New York - A top campaign operative involved in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2009 re-election bid was charged today with stealing approximately $1.2 million in missing campaign funds.

Veteran Queens Republican leader John Haggerty faces charges of first-degree grand larceny, second-degree money laundering and first-degree falsifying of business records.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said that Haggerty used money earmarked for poll watching in northern Queens to create a sham election company called "Special Election Operations."

Haggerty's company was only formed a month after Election Day, and Haggerty showed three bogus checks to poll watchers to the Bloomberg campaign.

"The defendants's fraud was an audacious scheme, to steal funds in order to buy a house, cynically using our political party process to hide what was common thievery," said Vance.

The funds included $750,000 that Bloomberg gave to the New York State Independence Party.

If convicted, Haggerty faces 25 years in prison.

NY1

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