{"id":81835,"date":"2020-10-04T22:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bronx-county-clerk-luis-diaz-suspended-amid-state-probe\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T22:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T19:25:48","slug":"bronx-county-clerk-luis-diaz-suspended-amid-state-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bronx-county-clerk-luis-diaz-suspended-amid-state-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bronx County Clerk Luis Diaz suspended amid state probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bronx County Clerk Luis Diaz suspended amid state probe<\/strong>”
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\n The chief record-keeper for the Bronx court system has been suspended after the state attorney general<\/a> mounted a raid on his offices amid a probe, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were advised that the New York State Attorney General executed a search warrant at the Bronx County Clerk\u2019s Office and we are fully cooperating with their investigation,\u201d Office of Court Administration spokesman Lucian Chalfen said, confirming that Bronx County Clerk Luis Diaz had been suspended amid the probe.<\/p>\n

NYS Chief Administrative Judge Marks issued an order on Sep. 30 suspending Diaz with pay and ordered the clerk to surrender keys and all access to the Bronx courthouse and directed him to \u201crefrain\u201d from communicating with anyone in the court system.<\/p>\n

Diaz\u2019s removal is the buzz within Bronx Democratic Party circles.<\/p>\n

One political insider said the probe may be tied to a not-for-profit group. Investigators with James\u2019 office have issued search warrants with other offices tied to the probe, the source said.<\/p>\n

James\u2019 office had no immedia<\/a>te comment.<\/p>\n

Diaz, through an intermediary, declined comment.<\/p>\n

The county clerk is the clerk of the state Supreme Court as well as the county and handles the filing of court papers, communication with jurors,\u00a0 oversees marriage licenses and is the repository of property deeds.<\/p>\n

Diaz, a former state assemblyman, has been the Bronx County clerk for a decade. While selected by the judiciary, the post has long been known as a plum patronage position that is made with input from political leaders.<\/p>\n

Diaz resigned his seat after a deadline that allowed party leaders to choose his successor without a primary in a game<\/a> of political musical chairs favored by the Bronx Democratic Party. He worked briefly for former Gov. David Paterson before becoming the county clerk.<\/p>\n

Luis Diaz is not related to Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., or the borough president\u2019s father, Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr.<\/p>\n

His problem amid a period of dramatic change within the Bronx Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Borough President Diaz and Councilman Diaz \u2014 long fixtures in the Bronx Democratic Party \u2014 announced they are exiting politics. Diaz Jr., who is term-limited, announced he would not throw his hat into the ring for mayor. Diaz Sr., the councilman and controversial pentecostal minister, said he would not seek re-election.<\/p>\n

Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, who is not seeking re-election,\u00a0 also stepped down as the Bronx Democratic Party chairman. State Sen. Jamaal Bailey is the new party chairman.<\/p>\n

The turnover also comes while lefty insurgents have won key races that have weakened the Bronx Democratic Party establishment, with the ascension of democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, insurgent Jamaal Bowman \u2014 who toppled longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in the Democratic primary and is the Democratic nominee heavily favored to win the general election \u2014 and state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Bronx County Clerk Luis Diaz suspended amid state probe” The chief record-keeper for the Bronx court system has been suspended after the state attorney general mounted a raid on his offices amid a probe, The Post has learned. \u201cWe were advised that the New York State Attorney General executed a search warrant at the Bronx…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/bronx-clerk-letitia-james-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[74249,32681,73623,74346,74347,70806],"class_list":["post-81835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-4-20","tag-politics","tag-probes","tag-ruben-diaz-jr","tag-ruben-diaz-sr","tag-the-bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}