$200 Million Haitian Migrant Shelter Investigation Targets Top NY Dems

There’s a lot of money in crises and if you’re wondering where that money went, ask the folks profiting from the crisis. The open borders invasion was bad news for a lot of people, but good news for some.

Now there’s bad news to go with the good news.

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a New York City Council member and her sister, an aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, accepted bribes or kickbacks in connection with the appropriation of city funds to a migrant shelter provider in a warrant that seeks evidence of possible criminal violations involving Councilmember Farah Louis, a Brooklyn Democrat, and Debbie Louis, who serves as Hochul’s assistant secretary of New York City intergovernmental affairs.

It also names Edu Hermelyn, the husband of state Assembly member Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, who chairs the Brooklyn Democratic Party.

The warrant, for a phone connected to the investigation, said prosecutors are seeking information about whether the three received benefits in exchange for actions taken on behalf of BHRAGS Home Care Inc., a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that provides in-home services to the sick and elderly.

In 2022, as an influx of asylum seekers began arriving in the city, the nonprofit expanded its mission to include emergency shelters for migrants and other homeless services. Records show they have since received more than a dozen contracts, totaling over $200 million, from the Department of Homeless Services. An attorney for the executive director of BHRAGS, Roberto Samedy, declined to comment.

The AP buries the lede here, but the Louis sisters are the daughters of Haitian immigrants. As is Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn. And BHRAGS appears to be mostly run by Haitians, appears to be located in ‘Little Haiti, and sponsored a Haiti heritage reception under Adams. A number of the figures here have ties to the Adams machine and some of this may be a political crackdown by the Left.

And the case appears to be extending further.

A retired New York City police sergeant whose company provided security to the city’s migrant shelters has been indicted on bribery charges in a corruption investigation linked to a New York City Council member and an aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Edouardo St. Fort was arrested in Massachusetts on Tuesday, court records show. His bribery case, filed in Brooklyn federal court, remained under seal as of Tuesday morning. A message seeking comment was left for a lawyer assigned to represent St. Fort.

According to St. Fort’s arrest warrant, he is under indictment on charges of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, bribery involving programs receiving federal funds, and violating a law prohibiting interstate travel for unlawful activities.

Records show Fort NYC Security was a subcontractor to two nonprofit organizations that provide homeless services to the city, BHRAGS Home Care Corp. and Bronx Family Network Inc. BHRAGS Home Care was also named in the search warrant. A spokesperson for the organization declined to comment.

This is not extraordinary, this is the default setting. The entire welfare system is one entangled pile of fraud in which political interests divert money to allied non-profits. Much of our economy now consists of this massive endless fraud in which hundreds of billions of dollars in local, statewide and national spending vanishes into these entities in order to supposedly solve various social problems from homelessness to health care. It’s fraud all the way down.