New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin arrested in illicit campaign finance scheme

New York’s No. 2, Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, has surrendered to authorities on charges of a federal bribery conspiracy related to his prior unsuccessful city comptroller campaign, throwing his political future into question during an election year.

Benjamin, a Democrat, is accused of funneling state funding to a real estate investor in Harlem in return for thousands of dollars in illegal campaign donations to his 2021 comptroller campaign, prosecutors confirmed to the Washington Examiner. He is set to appear in a Manhattan federal court Tuesday.