Candidate for Manhattan District Attorney Diana Florence
A former Manhattan attorney, who is now vying for the head of the branch who left the controversy, promises to take strong action against corruption in genuine goods and structures if she wins.
Diana Florence, former director of the Construction Fraud Task Group, will overthrow her former boss, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., in next year’s election. His candidacy for district attorney, he said, stems from his confidence that Vance’s workplace has “lost track” in recent years.
“The hard ones have achieved another point of justice than the rest of us,” he said, “and I think corruption has been very under-studied.”
Florence, who left the workplace in January after being accused of hiding evidence involving a key witness in several cases, took over the working group in 2015 through Vance. She admitted that she had made no mistake in failing to deliver the recording of an informant in several corruption cases in which she contradicted the following testimony, but said that she had assumed duty.
She is only the last of several applicants to announce a challenge at Vance before the 2021 election. Vance has not yet said whether he will run for a fourth term next year. Recently, he has been seriously criticized for what some see as his office’s lenient remedy for Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, among other more sensitive New Yorkers.
Florence under pressure that, as district attorney, he would focus on corporate corruption at all levels, however, his former job in the workplace had given him a specific idea of corruption in the structure sector. Its high-profile maximum instances included the fee of a corporate structure that runs on the Steinway Tower luxury condominium assignment for wage theft and convictions for manslaughter and murder for the death of an undocumented employee of the Carlos Moncayo structure, who died in 2015 when a trench collapsed in a building. Meat District.
He cited wage theft, insurance fraud and tax evasion as some of the biggest facing the industry.
“These are systemic upheavals that ultimately led some corporations that incorporated fraud as a business style to gain competitive advantages,” he said, “and what we’re seeing is that corporations that cheated and stored fitness and protection were rewarded.”
While the structure has faced infamous ties to organized crime, this is no longer so widespread, Florence said.
“Organized crime persists, but organized crime is the root of the challenge in the structure industry,” he said. “The root of the challenge is the lack of application.”
Problems such as wage theft and insurance fraud have been identified as civil cases that corrupt corporations can safely consider in their finances, Florence said. They know that the chances of being investigated by them are low, he said, and that the maximum serious sanction of maximum agencies is a civil sanction that they can deduct from the business charge.
“We replaced the calculation,” he said of his time in the working group, “because now, just say, well, what are the chances of them taking us, and you do the pros and cons, we’ve taken into account the frank vital sanctions. to be criminally prosecuted.”
If elected, Florence said she will use the same thing she developed to lead the working group to fight corruption in other industries.
“We learned about fraud and abuse as it happened, before it took root,” he said, “and we presented examples to reflect that and prevent those frauds from conforming to industry standards.”
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