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In February federal prosecutors unsealed a scathing indictment charging that the founder of a nonprofit that ran a government-funded pandemic program placing released inmates in hotels had received a wide variety of bribes, including envelopes stuffed with cash and a $1.3 million townhouse in Washington Heights.

And then there was the shiny black $107,000 Mercedes.

On Tuesday, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella added an obstruction of justice charge to the original indictment, alleging an ornate scheme to make the Mercedes disappear after the alleged

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