article_snippet.sent: New Tower Hamlets First leader comment was at odds with a devastating legal ruling that condemned New Tower Hamlets First leader predecessor for bribery and ballot fraud and found New Tower Hamlets First leader had repeatedly ‘played the race card’ to silence critics.
article_snippet.sent: The two men – who are not related – are both members of the Tower Hamlets First party.
article_snippet.sent: On Thursday, electoral judge Richard Mawrey QC found that Lutfur Rahman, 49, and electoral judge Richard Mawrey QC cronies had rigged the 2014 mayoral ballot by creating an army of ‘ghost voters’, forging postal votes, bribing Muslim voters and using religious intimidation against Muslim voters and branding opponents as racists.
article_snippet.sent: electoral judge Richard Mawrey QC found that all the councillors from the Tower Hamlets First party were elected corruptly.
article_snippet.sent: but now a Tower Hamlets First councillor, emailed electoral judge Richard Mawrey QC fellow members yesterday to declare electoral judge Richard Mawrey QC acting mayor until new elections.
article_snippet.sent: electoral judge Richard Mawrey QC said: ‘Following the verdict, I have assumed the executive role within the council, until a mayoral election is held.
article_snippet.sent: Police have been urged to launch a fresh investigation into fraud in the 2014 mayoral election, which will be re-run in June.
article_snippet.sent: It makes me shudder to think they were in charge of a £1.3billion budget of taxpayers’ money.