Tuesday, October 13, 2026

After NYCHA Extortion Take Down Mackey Got 6 Months Now $25K 456 Plan and 401K Taken



After NYCHA Extortion Take Down Mackey Got 6 Months Now $25K 456 Plan and 401K Taken

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 9  รข€“ For days Inner City Press had heard from its sources there would be a "takedown" on February 6, each SDNY Magistrate Judge would handle seven to 10 defendants.

Arrests happen at 6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City Press tweeted it, first to X subscribers with the spoiler alert: the expectation was that each of the current or former NYCHA employees would be released on bond the same day.  

And then hours later at 9:39 am the prosecutors announced it. Media rushed around reporting it.  Inner City Press had it first, and after discretely waiting, published it first. Then this thread of presentments, here.

On March 27, another guilty plea, by Joseph Fuller for taking $37,800 in bribes. The guideline, Magistrate Judge James L. Cott said, is 18 to 24 months, with a June 26 control date before Judge Dale E. Ho.

On April 8, a plea by NYCHA defendant Michael Davis, to a misdemeanor: defrauding HUD. He took $4000 for contracts worth $29,000. He will be sentenced by (Chief) Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, with a July 8 control date.

On April 9, a plea by NYCHA defendant Elizabeth Tapia to a felony, for taking $11,000 in bribes for contracts worth $66,000.  Somewhere between the two is the Office's line between misdemeanor and felony, with all its consequences.

On April 15, two NYCHA pleas: Daniel Muniz to a misdemeanor, and Marlon Mackey to a felony.

On April 22 the prosecutors filed Mackey's plea agreement with Judge Kaplan: it was for 18 months.

And that's what the US Attorney's Office asked for, in the run-up to sentencing.

On December 2, Mackey was sentenced to six months in prison.

On October 9, 2026 the US wrote in ready to seize $25,000 of the 457 Plan and all funds in the 401K place of the defendant.

The felony case is USA v. Mackey, 1:24-cr-230 (Kaplan)

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