Can you pimp state resources?

Smug face over here hires special lovers on the tax payers dime. This is why New York is so broke and accountability of elects is at an all time low.

Breitbart.com:

Naomi Rivera, a 49-year-old Democratic assemblywoman from the Bronx, likes to give her boy-toys more than just pleasure; she gets them good-paying jobs for which they are unqualified, too. Now the FBI, the state attorney general, the Bronx DA and special schools prober Richard Condon are getting involved.

Rivera hired her boyfriend at the time, Vincent Pinela, 40, to be the $75,000-a-year head of her Bronx Council for Economic Development. She also used charity funds for snuggle time with him. When that affair went south, Rivera hired her next lover, Brooklyn teacher Tommy Torres, 35, to work at her Morris Park district office. Working 20 hours a week, he made almost $20,000 from that job.

Rivera doesn’t just bestow favors on her gigolos; her younger brother Rodney collected a $65,000 state taxpayer salary for nearly three years.  For what, you might ask?

Everyone Says Shirley Must Go To Jail

Good Lord could Shirley Huntley make incumbents look any worse?

AM NY: State Sen. Shirley Huntley's political rival called for her resignation Tuesday.

City Councilman James Sanders said Huntley's arrest on conspiracy and fraud charges Monday brought shame to southeast Queens and effectively undermined her leadership.

The state attorney general accused Huntley and several of her associates of taking nearly $30,000 in taxpayer money that was supposed to go to a nonprofit education program.

"You cannot deal with a 20-count indictment and do the work of the people," Sanders said at a news conference outside Queens criminal court.

Sanders and Huntley will face off in next month's Democratic primary for the Senate seat. Huntley has vowed to remain in the race.

SHOCKING: Assembly Democrats Support Speaker Over Settlement

New York Times: ALBANY — Assembly Democrats rallied around Speaker Sheldon Silver on Thursday, as he faced an inquiry into his handling of sexual harassment allegations made against a prominent lawmaker and continued attacks from a lawyer who represented some of the women.

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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in 2011; Vito J. Lopez is at top right.

He has already said he will give up his role as the borough’s Democratic Party leader. But even a longtime ally thought likely to succeed Mr. Lopez as chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, Frank R. Seddio, said it was time for Mr. Lopez to resign after new descriptions of sexual language and harassment in his office.

In one indication of his precarious position, Mr. Lopez has not been calling around to other Assembly members to gauge his level of support — something he would surely do if he were maneuvering to stay, said one member who is close to him.

For Mr. Silver, the fallout from the scandal continues. For 18 years, he has led the State Assembly, and presided as the Legislature’s most powerful Democrat. But he now faces an investigation by the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which is controlled by appointees and allies of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat with whom he has had an uneasy relationship. Last year, state lawmakers approved the governor’s plan to expand the jurisdiction of the ethics commission to encompass the Legislature; the investigation of Mr. Silver’s office represents a largely unprecedented incursion by the executive branch into his chamber.