Haitian American Mayor of Spring Valley, Noramie Jasmin, arrested on Corruption

This came as a shock and a surprise to the Haitian community in Spring Valley. In April 2013, Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin and Deputy Mayor Joseph A. Desmaret were arrested Tuesday April 4, 2013 by FBI agents for their alleged involvement in the sale of a land that was supposed to be used for a community center.

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This was staged by FBI agents. According to the assistant director of the FBI, George Venizelos, Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin and Deputy Mayor Joseph A. Desmaret were involved in conning some members of the village's board of trustees to vote for a developer, that Jasmin had a financial stake in the sale.

The complaint involves six officials who had managed to built a corridor of corruption from Queens and the Bronx to Rockland County and Albany.

Also arrested in the same criminal complaint as allegedly part of a plot: State Sen. Malcolm Smith, D-Queens, and New York City Councilman Dan Halloran, a Queens Republican, Queens GOP Chairman Vincent Tabone and Joseph Savino, a Bronx GOP official

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