brought down by scandal

resigned from office as part of a plea deal with Albany County prosecutors for using state employees to chauffeur his unwell wife. He received a $5,000 fine and was banned from ever seeking office again.

Less than four years later he pleaded guilty in state court to receiving nearly $1 million in gifts, including travel, for steering $250 million in city pension funds to a group called Markstone Capital Partners during his time as city comptroller.

He was sentenced to one to four years, and was released after 20 months. Then-state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a candidate for governor at the time, secured more than a half-dozen guilty pleas in connection with the case.

Published reports state that among his accomplishments in the Assembly, Hevesi wrote the law making it a crime for hospitals to turn away emergency patients; and others that led to nursing home reform regulations; and to investigations of corruption in Long Island school districts.

Hevesi won a special election to the Assembly in 1971 to fill the vacancy created when Emanuel Gold resigned to launch a successful bid for the state Senate.

He lost a 1989 Democratic primary for city comptroller to former Congresswoman and Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth

Holtzman, but won the rematch in 1993. He then defeated former Congressman Herman Badillo, running on the Republican and Liberal party lines, in the general election.

While in office, Hevesi leveraged the might of the city’s considerable financial investments to force Swiss banks into paying massive financial reparations to Holocaust survivors and heirs of victims from then still-existing Nazi-era bank accounts. He eventually secured the same in countries such as Germany and Austria.

Wikipedia quotes historian and author Norman Finkelstein as calling Hevesi “the godfather of Holocaust restitution sanctions.”

In 2001 he lost the Democratic primary for mayor to Mark Green, who eventually lost to Mike Bloomberg, who ran as a Republican.

In 2002, facing term limits in the city, Hevesi ran for state comptroller, defeating Republican John Faso.

Though dogged by the investigation regarding use of state employees, he won reelection on Nov. 7, 2006, defeating Republican candidate Chris Callaghan.

On Dec. 23, about six weeks later, Hevesi resigned as part of a felony plea agreement with Albany County,

The subsequent investigation by Cuomo’s office also would ensnare a handful of Hevesi’s friends and political associates. Q to come out of his tomb.

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Ariola swears in future leaders

Councilwoman Joann Ariola, at podium, visited PS/MS 207 of Howard Beach on Nov. 13 to swear in the newest student council members for the school year.

According to school social worker Melissa Meric, the students pledged their oaths to the Constitution and Ariola led them in a discussion on what inspired them to apply