‘These revelations are of serious concern because her position gives her access to critical information about police plans and strategies.’
- PBA president Pat Lynch
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
I thought I’d re-posted an article when the Rachel Noerdlinger scandal first exploded in late September/early October, but apparently, I never got around to it.
Rachel Noerdlinger should be in jail for perjury, for lying on city disclosure forms. As a mayoral aide, she is legally obligated to live in the state of New York, either in the city’s five boroughs, or a handful of neighboring New York State counties. Instead, she lives in New Jersey. She lied on the form, in claiming that she had to live in New Jersey, due to grievous medical conditions her 17-year-old son suffers form, sue to car accidents he was in. Then she exposed: Since the accident, the son has been a star linebacker on his New Jersey high school football team. She also lied, in not disclosing that she is living with a racist, career criminal, convicted killer and drug dealer Hassaun McFarlane.
Mayor Bill Wilhelm/de Blasio’s response: He had the Department of Investigation roll over for his criminal aide, and declared, “Case closed.”
Top adviser to de Blasio dates a cop-bashing killer
By Tara Palmeri, Shawn Cohen, Michael Gartland and Laura Italiano
September 25, 2014 | 9:28 p.m.
New York Post
A top adviser to Mayor Bill de Blasio is in a live-in relationship with a convicted killer and drug trafficker who considers police officers “pigs” and continues to get into serious scrapes with the law, public records show.
For six years, Rachel Noerdlinger , who serves as chief of staff to first lady Chirlane McCray, has been living with boyfriend Hassaun McFarlane, sources told The Post.
While McCray, accompanied by Noerdlinger, enjoys attending high-level NYPD CompStat meetings, her top aide’s boyfriend has plenty of serious crime stats of his own — a rap sheet that includes homicide, conspiring to run a cocaine operation, and nearly running a cop off the road in Edgewater, NJ, last year in an incident that was later pleaded down to disorderly conduct.
Still, the administration is sticking by him, despite what DNAinfo.com, which broke the story, described as online posts — since taken down — in which he repeatedly called cops “pigs.”
“Rachel’s not going anywhere,” de Blasio spokeswoman Rebecca Katz said when asked if Noerdlinger would be asked to step down.
Last year, then-candidate de Blasio canned Lis Smith as his spokeswoman after The Post revealed she was dating the still-married ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
“No one at City Hall condones criminal behavior or disparagement of the NYPD, including Rachel,” Katz said in an emailed statement.
[How many lies were in that one sentence?]
“Rachel is her own person. She is a strong, independent woman who possesses a core set of values and beliefs that align with this administration.”
[And those values are: Racism, condoning criminal behavior, and the disparagement of the NYPD.]
‘These revelations are of serious concern because her position gives her access to critical information about police plans and strategies.’
- PBA president Pat Lynch
Even as he’s dated Noerdlinger, McFarlane made clear his disrespect for the law.
“I cant come outside without the pigs f—— with me in the hood,” McFarlane wrote on Facebook, according to DNA. Noerdlinger worked as top aide to the Rev. Al Sharpton at the time her boyfriend posted the anti-cop comment.
“The system sucks this pig should be charged with a civil rights violation always givin the pigs a pass,” he posted in January 2012, in response to a story about a Staten Island officer’s guilty plea in a false arrest.
The Noerdlinger-McFarlane connection infuriated PBA president Pat Lynch.
“These revelations are of serious concern because her position gives her access to critical information about police plans and strategies,” Lynch complained Thursday.
“It raises serious questions about her judgment and character and the quality of the counsel she provides to City Hall,” he said. “She should not be in that position.”
McFarlane, 36, has a record stretching back to age 15, when he shot an 18-year-old rival in an argument over a pricey goose-down jacket at a Harlem housing project, an official source confirmed. ["An argument over a pricey goose-down jacket..." Translation: McFarlane committed robbery-homicide. He murdered a kid for his jacket. Thus, he should have already been executed.]
By age 25, he was indicted on interstate cocaine trafficking charges in Bristol County, Massachusetts. Sentenced to four years in prison, he was released in 2007, Massachusetts prison officials confirmed.
McFarlan’s subsequent arrests include a Manhattan charge of misdemeanor marijuana possession in 2012. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to time served last year.
“I smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes,” he told arresting officers, according to the criminal complaint. “It’s just a bag of weed. It’s not a big deal.”
He was sentenced to seven days in jail in 2011 for driving with a suspended license in Manhattan, and pleaded guilty to driving without a license in 2010, records show.
But his most disturbing recent arrest was in November, when a cop in Edgewater, NJ, accused McFarlane of nearly running him off the road — in Noerdlinger’s Mercedes.
McFarlane was hit with a dozen summonses and the criminal charge of eluding arrest, according to Capt. Alex Hanna of the Edgewater Police Department, ultimately pleading guilty to disorderly conduct.
“She does her work without input from Hassaun,” said attorney Jeffrey Lichtman, who represents both Noerdlinger and McFarlane.
“Hassaun is not part of any decisions she makes with regard to her clients and with regard to her work with de Blasio and Mayor de Blasio’s wife,” he said.
“She’s a [unwed] single mother. She’s done everything on her own. It’s painful for me to see her muddied by this. In fairness to Rachel, it would have been very easy for her to dump Hassaun when she got this job. To her credit, she’s a loyal woman and a strong woman and she would not put her career ahead of people she cares about. Hassaun isn’t her fault. [Her support for violent, racist black felons is the foundation of her career.] This is a strong woman, an independent woman who just refuses to play political games.” [Everything she does is part of a political game.]
[Shyster Jeffrey Lichtman just took three character flaws, and flipped each into a virtue:
Being an unwed mother;
Her consorting for many years with a murderous, racist, career criminal; and
Her endangering the welfare of her minor son by permitting said murderer to live for years with his minor son.]
Additional reporting by Rebecca Rosenberg
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