NEW YORK (AP) — The 70th and final conviction in a sweeping New York City corruption probe was secured on Tuesday, concluding a decade-long bribery scheme in which public housing employees steered work to contractors in exchange for bribes.

The arrests in February 2024 were the largest single-day bribery takedown in the history of the U.S. Justice Department, prosecutors said, and targted current and former employees of the New York City Housing Authority, many of them former supervisors.

“All 70 charged defendants have now been convicted,” U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said in a release, “for attempting to criminally leverage the contracting process of work for affordable housing for New Yorkers to line their own pockets.”

The defendants generally demanded between 10% and 20% of a contract

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