If you wear glasses and have dark hair, that is enough to garner the nickname, \u2018Waldo,\u2019 if you are friends with Michael Mazzio and Joseph Livreri \u2013 owners of a trucking company and pizza shop, respectively, and co-defendants on trial with former New York City Council Member Eric \u201cWaldo\u201d Ulrich.<\/p>\n
That and more was revealed during the second day of Ulrich\u2019s corruption trial where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s prosecution team played various phone calls they had recorded through wiretaps of Ulrich and various associates that unveiled some new insights into Ulrich\u2019s conversations with former Mayor Eric Adams and other officials.<\/p>\n
That included Ulrich\u2019s November 2021 phone call with Livreri detailing an urgent task that Adams\u2019 chief adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin asked him to do for the then-mayor-elect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIngrid just called me, and we have to take care of something like ASAP \u2026 So they want tonight for a carting company to go to the campaign office to throw out a lot of stuff that they need to throw out \u2026 Nobody\u2019s there tonight and they might be there tomorrow,\u201d Ulrich said to Livreri as he enlisted his help. \u201cShe\u2019s gonna text me right now. I\u2019m gonna get it there by the time X, Y and Z and get rid of this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked outside the courtroom after the trial concluded for the day what the items that were carted away were, Ulrich claimed it was simply trash from the annual Somos conference in Puerto Rico and other innocuous junk.<\/p>\n
Ulrich also referenced concerns Adams shared regarding having to be \u201cmore careful with the circle,\u201d now that he had won the mayoral election.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even more wiretapped calls Ulrich made are expected to be introduced as evidence on Wednesday. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you wear glasses and have dark hair, that is enough to garner the nickname, \u2018Waldo,\u2019 if you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,1057,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-379426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-council","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379426","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=379426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}