A former senior official in New York City’s Department of Education was on Wednesday found guilty in a sprawling bribery scheme that saw him turn a blind eye as public school students were served up chicken tenders tainted with bits of metal, plastic, and bone. The official, Eric Goldstein, was convicted of conspiracy, extortion, wire fraud, and taking bribes.
Goldstein, once the head of the department’s Office of School Support Services, brokered a corrupt business relationship with Somma in 2015, prosecutors said. “I’m going to buy a lot of fucking chicken from you guys,” Goldstein told one of Somma’s owners that year, according to prosecutors. “Let’s do the beef.
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