Fraud, Fraud, and more Fraud – The Stavisky Legacy.

As I was trolling through the Internet and googling, I wondered upon a site called The Stavisky Report . Fascinating reading. But what struck me and hit me the hardest was an article highlighting the Staviskys relationship with convicted felon, Brian Mclaughlin. Below please find a copy of that article. Take a few minutes to read it, but more importantly- make sure you read the last paragraph and if you are a crazy political animal like me, read the whole thing including the Mclaughlin Indictment. When you are finished you will ask the same question that was asked at the Stavisky report, how does a Chief of Staff not know all this corruption is going on?

My guess is Evan knew a lot more...

From The Stavisky Report:

Evan Stavisky was long the Chief of Staff for corrupt felon and former Assemblyman Brian M. McLaughlin, a Queens assemblyman who as head of the nation’s biggest municipal labor council personified New York City’s politically powerful labor movement,. Evan also served as the Lobbyist for some of the same unions that came under scrutiny during the arrest. Is Evan Stavisky as guilty as Brian McLaughlin? What did he know and when did he know it? When McLaughlin was arrested on federal racketeering charges involving embezzlement, receiving bribes, fraud and money laundering. Charges he ultimately plead guilt too.

A 186-page indictment charges Mr. McLaughlin, 54, with illegally obtaining $2.2 million from taxpayers, labor unions and contractors as President of the New York City Central Labor Council, a federation of 400 union locals with one million members.

The accusations range from the Dickensian (stealing $95,000 from Little League baseball teams to pay his rent) to the brazen (creating two no-show jobs on his legislative payroll and keeping part of one salary), according to the painstakingly detailed racketeering indictment.

Mr. McLaughlin and Stavisky have been joined at the hip their entire political career with the Assemblyman and Senator Stavisky sharing consultants, friends and endorsing most of the same candidates. Evan Stavisky was the major player in McLaughlin’s office and when Law enforcement officials said that Mr. McLaughlin used subordinates as “personal servants,” to take his dog to the veterinarian, hang Christmas lights, trap rodents in his basement and clean out his barn. Did Evan ever report any of this misdeeds to the authorities and McLaughlin’s Chief of Staff or as his lobbyist or his chief political adviser? The answer is NO!

Brian used more than $330,000 from his re-election campaign funds to pay for personal expenses like a rehearsal dinner for his son’s wedding, renovation of his $760,000 house in Suffolk County near Long Island Sound, payment of his country club membership fees and the purchase and installation of a plasma television for a female friend. He was convicted of using stolen money for an $80,000 Mercedes-Benz for his wife, marina fees, school tuition for one of his children, rent payments on his Albany residence and rent payments on his Queens residence. What did Evan know? How can you be the Chief Political aide and confidant with this going on and not know?

Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney for Manhattan, said the extent of the thefts was “stunning in its breadth and scope,” at a news conference.“This case lends a new meaning to the term ‘hand in the till,’ ” he said.

Asked why Mr. McLaughlin would go to so much trouble to steal money when he was making what many would consider much more than a decent living — $263,600 in combined salaries and expenses as an assemblyman and labor council president — Mr. Garcia said he could not offer any insight, except to say, “What we have here is really a story of greed.”

For more than a decade, Mr. McLaughlin and Evan Stavisky were among the most influential labor leaders and labor organizers in New York City and in the state, providing pivotal early support for candidates.

Some labor experts said they were shocked by the scope of the accusations, which represented a huge embarrassment to labor, but Evan Stavisky and Toby Stavisky were noticeably silent. It seems that the Stavisky’s seek to talk about other peoples associations but fail to look in the mirror.
It is typical of Evan Stavisky when it was found that his mothers petitions were permeated with fraud to try and throw mud, maybe we should look at Evans background and how much he profits from his mother being a Senator. How much he made lobbying for Brian McLaughlin, where he lives maybe show video tapes of him exiting his Rockland County home, instead of his phony apartment in Queens.