{"id":133048,"date":"2026-02-13T23:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133048\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:23:15","slug":"news-12-westchester-former-nypd-official-from-yonkers-facing-federal-bribery-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133048\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Former NYPD official from Yonkers facing federal bribery charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former NYPD commanding officer from Yonkers is facing federal bribery charges.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Taylor was the commanding officer of the department\u2019s School Safety Division.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say he took tens of thousands of dollars in cash, meals, airfare and hotel stays from a Florida businessman.<\/p>\n<p>He then allegedly tried to steer city contracts to that man\u2019s company.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is accused of also trying to extort $75,000 from two people at another firm.<\/p>\n<p>He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former NYPD commanding officer from Yonkers is facing federal bribery charges. Kevin Taylor was the commanding officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[14476,128,303,5945,9,24,63,103,17110,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-133048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bribery","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-landmark","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-prosecutor","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}