Bar owner alleges he was victim of ‘shakedown’ amid growing federal criminal probe into City Hall, NYPD – NBC New York
A Coney Island bar owner said he was told his problems with the NYPD could be resolved if he hired and paid the police commissioner’s brother. The bar owner alleged it was a worker in the mayor’s office who allegedly tried to help arrange the deal.
“I felt it was like I got an ultimatum. It’s like either you gonna get with this - or you gonna get shut down,” bar owner Shamel Kelly told NBC New York.
Shamel Kelly said it was associate director Ray Martin of the mayor’s Office of Entertainment and Nightlife who first told him he could pay the police commissioner’s brother to help get better treatment from the NYPD.
