NYC lawyer called the gun license ‘expediter’ convicted of bribery

By Christen Smith

John Chambers faces up to 55 years behind bars for bribing officers in the NYPD Licensing Department. (Photo: Charles Eckert/AMNewYork)
A New York City lawyer and self-proclaimed gun license “expediter” could spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge convicted him of bribery this week.
John Chambers, 63, faces a maximum of 55 years in prison for bribing his contacts within the New York Police Department’s License Division while serving as an assistant district attorney in King’s County.
“On behalf of his clients, Chambers acted as an intermediary for individuals who sought to circumvent the legitimate gun licensing process, and in some cases had criminal records or were otherwise precluded from owning firearms at all,” said U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman in a news release Thursday.
According to the four-count indictment filed in federal court, Chambers gave NYPD Sergeant David Villanueva tickets to sporting and entertainment events, an $8,500 wristwatch and $2,000 in cash between 2010 and 2015 in exchange for leniency and expediency when it came to Chambers’s clients.
In some cases, Villanueva would scuttle “incident investigations” involving Chambers’s clients, preserving their firearms licenses despite clear evidence for suspension or revocation, according to court documents. He’d also modify the outcomes

Source: Guns.com