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Correction Department official Selwyn Fergus delivers voter registration forms to the Board of Elections in 2022. (Alexandra Arriaga/The Marshall Project)
The allegations against Selwyn Fergus, 66, who was promoted to associate commissioner last month, emerged at a city Board of Correction hearing last week, when an activist said someone had contacted her about a senior correction official accused of “sexual things” involving people close to Commissioner Stanley Richards.
The activist did not identify Fergus, but three Correction Department sources told The City Reporter she was referring to him. He did not respond to requests for comment and both the agency and city Department of Investigation declined to comment.
It is not clear what Fergus allegedly told the employee or who is leading the investigation. Jail sources said he reportedly bragged about his close ties to Richards, who met Fergus in elementary school and worked at the same nonprofit as him before they joined the agency.
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Reporter's Notebook
New York Cashes in on Sports Gambling
Fast-growing sports gambling provided $1.23 billion in tax revenue to the state in fiscal year 2026, second only to the New York Lottery, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. In all, gambling tax revenues exceeded $5 billion.
More money is bet on basketball than any other sport, with bets during the first two weeks of June — when the New York Knicks were winning the NBA title — topping $1 billion. But the online bookies actually lost money as their payouts exceeded the amount gambled.
The rapid rise of prediction markets, which involve sports bets but do not pay any such taxes to the state, showcases how much gambling has spread. Attorney General Letitia James has sued prediction market Kalshi, accusing it of running an “illegal gambling operation” without proper state licenses. Meanwhile, calls to New York’s problem gambling hotline have increased 8% since 2000.
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