New York, NY - As the investigation into former Met Council
head William Rapfogel deepens, new questions have arisen pertaining to
automobile insurance payments made by his wife’s failed 1997 City Council
campaign.
THE NEW YORK TIMES reports that, in question, are seemingly
inflated auto insurance payments, paid for by the 1997 campaign of Judy
Rapfogel, to the same insurance company, Century Coverage Corporation, that is
at the heart of the insurance-bilking scam allegedly perpetrated by William
Rapfogel and two co-conspirators.
The criminal complaint against Rapfogel and his
co-conspirators—-later leveled to be Rabbi David Cohen, who preceded Rapfogel
as head of Met Council, and Joseph Ross, owner of Century Coverage
Corporation—-states that the scam dates back more than 20 years.
Records from 1997 show that Judy Rapfogel’s campaign rented
two vehicles for $3,100, while paying $8,008 to Century Coverage to insure the
vehicles, making Century Coverage the campaign’s 4th largest vendor, behind
only vendors who handled printing and catering needs.
According to computerized records, Judy Rapfogel is the only
state or city candidate to ever use Century Coverage to insure rented vehicles.
Judy Rapfogel, longtime chief of staff to Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver, has maintained throughout that she had no knowledge of her
husband’s criminal activity.
Meanwhile, the NY Daily News is reporting today that Judy
Rapfogel has hired a lawyer in connection with her husband’s criminal case.
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