By Jordan Rau
ALBANY — Alleged payoffs. A taxpayer-paid pension despite disgrace. Keeping donations from your sworn enemies.
Such
are the ways that money — legal and less so — grabbed headlines in the
last week, touching current and former Albany luminaries and
underscoring the state capital’s reputation as a place where personal
and professional financial concerns often overshadow the work of
government.
On Friday, it was Dean
Skelos, the former Republican leader of the State Senate, testifying in
his own defense in a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan as he attempts
to fend off federal corruption charges that he had used his sizable
influence to try to financially benefit his son, Adam.
Mr. Skelos denied that, but admitted doing what he could
to help a child who seemingly had trouble
taking care of himself.
“Quite frankly, I’ve asked a lot of people to help my son,” he said on
Friday. “If I had the opportunity to ask somebody to help Adam, I did
it.”
On Thursday, it was another former state official making news, as the New York Law Journal reported
that Eric T. Schneiderman, the former state attorney general, had asked
for — and would receive — his pension, despite career-ending
accusations of physical abuse against his romantic partners.
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Source: The New York Times
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