Donald McLaren tells court he interviewed Espada in Soundview clinic in 2008
By John Marzulli / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 9:47 PM
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Donald McLaren outside court.
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Former State Sen. Pedro Espada Jr.
Former state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. paid a ghostwriter $8,000 to pen his memoirs with funds embezzled through a cleaning company owned by his nonprofit charity.
The writer, Donald McLaren, testified in Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday that Espada had answered an ad for his services and sat for about 20 hours of interviews in the conference room of Espada's Soundview health clinic in 2008.
Espada sent the writer two checks written from a cleaning company that was wholly owned by the clinic.
But the project fizzled before McLaren wrote a word.
“He said he was going to law school, but I think that was just a nice story,” McLaren said outside court.
Espada and his son, Pedro Gautier Espada, are charged with embezzling more than $500,000 from Soundview and the cleaning company, CEDC, to pay for personal expenses.
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