Frank Seddio Doubles Down on the ‘Shaggy Defense’
Seddio posing for reporters in Brooklyn Supreme Court Monday. (Hell Gate)

Frank Seddio Doubles Down on the ‘Shaggy Defense’

Back on the witness stand in the case of the missing $2 million, Seddio insists "it wasn't me" who filed those court papers.

Brooklyn Democratic Party powerbroker Frank Seddio was back on the stand in state court Monday, continuing his testimony as a judge decides whether he abused the court system to help his client, Yechiel "Sam" Sprei, perpetrate an alleged $2 million fraud on a pair of international investors.

Seddio was his usual garrulous self off the stand outside the courtroom Monday, dispensing advice on family-friendly summer field trip destinations (Amish country, Legoland) and urging reporters to "write something nice about me for once—say I look sharp, say I've got a 12-inch dick!"

Seddio did look sharp, in a blue suit with a Democratic donkey lapel pin. On the stand, however, he appears to be increasingly boxed in by a mounting body of evidence and testimony gathered both in the state proceeding and the federal lawsuit the investors have brought against him, Sprei, and others. 

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