One of Mayor Bloombergs majority devoted debate aides was charged Monday for allegedly hidden $1.1 million of the mayors income he was ostensible to outlay on Election Day.John Haggerty, a longtime tie in Queens Republican politics, is indicted of formulation a haunt poll-watching operation, afterwards covering his marks with artificial checks - and shopping a residence with the mayors money."The defendants rascal was an brazen intrigue to take supports in sequence to buy a house, cynically misusing a domestic celebration routine to censor what was usual thievery," Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. pronounced as he voiced the five-count indictment.Haggerty gave Bloombergs debate a grand plan to outlay $1,076,750 on Election Day last fall, Vance said, to margin some-more than 1,700 workers, with cars and radios, to guard polling places.In reality, Vance said, Haggerty outlayed no some-more than $32,000 -- and as the Daily News initial reported in February, used the rest to buy out his hermit Barts share of their late fathers home in Forest Hills Gardens."Promises were finished about how these monies were to be spent," Vance said. "They were specific, and they were secretly promised. False pretenses were finished to the mayor and his staff."Vance finished transparent that the grand jury was stability to examine the state Independence Party, that acted as a passage for Bloombergs money."We goal that when we embrace serve annals from the party, that we goal and design we will, that we will have answers," Vance said. "Our review continues."Bloomberg gave $1.2 million to the Independence Party in the days prior to last years election. The complaint says $1.1 million was for Haggertys operation and the superfluous $100,000 would be a grant to the party.The Independence Party connected $133,000 of that income without delay to Haggerty, Vance said, but those exchange never appeared in the reports the celebration filed with state choosing officials.Vances bureau has indicted the Independence Party of stonewalling the examine and unwell to spin over documents. The partys warn has been subpoenaed to attest to a grand jury Thursday.Party trainer Frank MacKay declined comment.Vance displayed a difficult web of exchange that shows income sloshing in between Haggerty, a association he set up called Special Election Operations, the Independence Party and the law organisation doing Haggertys fathers estate.Bloomberg and his debate do not crop up to have finished anything wrong, Vance said, and were hoodwinked by Haggerty since they devoted him."Our exploration has ... dynamic no rapist bungle has been achieved by the mayor," Vance said. "He has cooperated utterly with the office, both without delay and by staff and by counsel."Bloomberg declined to criticism on the arrest, observant Vance asked him not to comment, and incited irritable when reporters asked because he paid for the bid by the Independence Party instead of his own campaign."I have a right to have donations to people and parties that I think will assistance this city and this nation and this state, and I"ll go on to do it," Bloomberg said. "You have just the same event to do it."Vances bureau additionally filed a polite damage box opposite Haggerty to retrieve the $1.1 million -- together with the residence -- and lapse it to Bloomberg.With Melissa Grace and Erin Einhorn
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