{"id":2085,"date":"2021-04-27T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2021-04-28T00:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T00:07:58","slug":"statement-from-council-speaker-corey-johnson-on-chaim-deutsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2021\/04\/27\/2085\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Council Speaker Corey Johnson on Chaim Deutsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City Hall \u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cBased on our review of the charging document and Mr. Chaim Deutsch\u2019s plea agreement, the Council has concluded that the office of the 48<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Council District has been vacated under the operation of law. Mr. Deutsch confessed to a crime and violated his oath of office. He is no longer a member of the City Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Background: Under New York State Public Officers Law \u00a730(1)(e), a public office is deemed vacant if the holder is convicted of a crime involving a violation of his oath of office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City Hall \u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cBased on our review of the charging document and Mr. Chaim Deutsch\u2019s plea agreement, the Council has concluded that the office of the 48th&nbsp;Council District has been vacated under the operation of law. Mr. Deutsch confessed to a crime and violated his oath of office. He is no longer a member of the City Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Background: Under New York State Public Officers Law \u00a730(1)(e), a public office is deemed vacant if the holder is convicted of a crime involving a violation of his oath of office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2021\/04\/27\/2085\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}