Statement Of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet BhararaOn The Conviction Of State Assemblyman Eric Stevenson

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Jan. 13, 2014. It is reproduced in full below.

“As a unanimous jury swiftly found, Assemblyman Stevenson brazenly betrayed the public that elected him. Graft and greed are intolerable in Albany, and we will go to trial as often as we have to until government in New York is cleaned up."

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys