A four-count superseding indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Cornell Bozier with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and three substantive counts of federal program bribery.  From April 2011 to April 2013, Bozier served as the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners (the Board) at the Village of Hempstead Housing Authority (the VHHA).  The defendant was arrested this morning and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States District Judge Joan M. Azrack at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York.

The charges were announced by Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), New York Field Office, and Christina Scaringi, Special Agent-in- Charge, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of the Inspector General (HUD-OIG), Northeast Region.

“The corruption and betrayal of the public trust detailed in the indictment was compounded by the fact that the defendant allegedly orchestrated this scheme to line his pockets with money stolen from a federal program that provides low-income families with safe and affordable housing,” stated United States Attorney Capers.  “This Office and our law enforcement partners are steadfast in our resolve to uncover public corruption at every level of government and prosecute those responsible.”  Mr. Capers expressed his grateful appreciation to the FBI and HUD-OIG, the agencies responsible for leading the investigation....