Liu Phones Tapped By Fbi

ROBERT GEARTY, New York Daily News: Politics
Mon, 09/10/2012 - 9:21pm

PHONES BELONGING to City Controller John Liu were among those secretly wiretapped during a probe into his campaign fund-raising operation that dated to 2009, new court papers revealed Monday. The feds had 10 wiretaps on six different phones belonging to Liu and several others connected to his campaign for more than 18 months in 2010 and 2011, according to the documents filed in Manhattan Federal Court.

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