It's Wednesday, you deserve a treat, like an episode of the Hell Gate Podcast! Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
It has, objectively, been an absolutely shit start to the week for the Brooklyn Democratic Party establishment, several of whom—a sitting New York City councilmember, an aide to Governor Kathy Hochul, and the husband of the Brooklyn Democratic Party leader—are suddenly implicated in an alleged corruption and bribery scandal involving federal search warrants, seized phones, a Brooklyn nonprofit, and a recently retired NYPD sergeant.