State paroles former comptroller
Posted by Steve Mosco in Assembly, Attorney General, City Council, City Offices, District 28, Public Advocate, State Comptroller, Statewide Offices on November 21, 2012 | No Comments
The son of disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi said his father realizes his mistakes and wants to move forward now that he has been granted parole after serving 18 months in prison. “My father has publicly acknowledged that he willfully allowed himself to become unbelievably arrogant, entitled and personally corrupt,” said state Assemblyman Andrew [...]
Hevesi wants barriers for Fresh Pond trains
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, District 28 on November 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) is calling on a city body to install sound barriers near the Fresh Pond Terminal in Ridgewood so residents will not have to hear loud freight trains passing by the neighborhood. Hevesi also urged the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council to compel train operators to buy more technologically advanced [...]
Avella bill would compel city to address raccoon population
Posted by Rich Bockmann in Assembly, District 11, District 28, State Senate on August 18, 2011 | No Comments
State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) is calling on the city Department of Health to take responsibility for nuisance raccoons he says are plaguing residents in northeast Queens, but the department has responded that ?it is the senator’s proposed legislation that is the real pest. Avella stood alongside state Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) and residents [...]
Hevesi to chair Assembly Oversight Committee
Posted by Joe Anuta in Assembly, District 28 on July 7, 2011 | No Comments
State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) was recently named chairman of the Assembly Oversight, Analysis and Investigations Committee. “Assemblyman Hevesi will have a key role in ensuring a responsible and efficient government in New York,” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) said in a statement. “I know he will be a tremendous leader in this capacity [...]
Hevesi graft an open secret
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, District 28, State Comptroller, Statewide Offices on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
Long before disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi was charged in October for his role in a pay-to-play scandal involving the state pension fund under his watch, a little-known treasurer of Saratoga County, J. Christopher Callaghan, knew something was up — and it was in plain sight. Callaghan, who ran on the Republican line against [...]
Hevesi’s judgment day delayed after former comptroller falls ill
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, City Comptroller, City Offices, District 28, State Comptroller, Statewide Offices on March 31, 2011 | No Comments
The sentencing of Alan Hevesi, the former state comptroller from Forest Hills, on a corruption charge involving the state pension fund was postponed Monday after he was hospitalized for internal bleeding over the weekend. The New York Post said Hevesi experienced symptoms during a visit to his daughter in Virginia and underwent an emergency endoscopy, [...]
