The two City Council aides charged with embezzlement in the ongoing Council slush fund scandal will plead guilty tomorrow in Manhattan Federal Court, sources told The Post.
Asquith Reid and Joycinth Anderson, former chief of staff and aide to Councilman Kendall Stewart (D-Brooklyn), were charged with stealing nearly $200,000 in taxpayer money last year.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office alleged the pair swiped the money earmarked for three non-profits in the district and used it for themselves, wiring some of it to relatives in Jamaica.
Stewart was not charged.
The money had been earmarked for three Brooklyn charitable groups – the Central Brooklyn Community Services, Community Opportunity and Resource Development and the Donna Reid Memorial Education Fund, a nonprofit named for Reid’s late daughter.
The joint U.S. Attorney and the city Department of Investigation are still probing how the Council parked public money into fake charities, only to dole it out later in the year to groups favored by politicians.
A portion of the money Reid and Anderson allegedly stole came from that slush fund.