In 2016, Defendant Rechnitz pled guilty to honest services fraud in 

connection with a wire fraud conspiracy and bribery scheme involving the New York 

City mayor’s office and the New York Police Department’s Correction Officer’s 

Benevolent Association.7

 Following his guilty plea, Rechnitz began to cooperate with authorities in connection with their ongoing investigation and later testified at 

trial of his co-conspirators.

44. At the trial of his co-conspirator Norman Seabrook, government 

prosecutors elicited testimony from Defendant Rechnitz describing instances in 

which he had lied to law enforcement officials, failed to report certain income, 

fostered illegal relationships with members of the New York City Police Department,

bribed New York police officers in exchange for various illegal privileges, bribed 

New York politicians in order to secure access and the promise of future benefits 

from said politicians and their staffs, violated election laws by fundraising by way of 

“straw donors,” procured a police chaplaincy despite not having religious credentials, 

and solely for purposes of obtaining the prestige and privileges associated with that 

title, and lied about owning certain properties in order to impress others.8

57. In another text message authored by Rechnitz, he bragged about his

associations with Promoter Defendants Mayweather, Kardashian, and Brown and

cavalierly refers to how he “bribed the mayor of NYC”:

Floyd fucks with me

Kim fucks with me

Ab fucks with me

Floyd and Kim going strong 10 + years

Shit happened.

I bribed the mayor of NYC and cops and got jammed up in 2016

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