Posted on 09/14/2007 1:28:15 AM PDT by neverdem
ALBANY, Sept. 12 — Few political partners have been closer than Hank Morris and Alan G. Hevesi.
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Mr. Morris ran Mr. Hevesi’s breakthrough political campaign, an upset of City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman in 1993. He was the guiding force behind Mr. Hevesi’s combative last race, when he won re-election as state comptroller amid scandal last November. And he was Mr. Hevesi’s main adviser when he resigned a month later after pleading guilty to using state workers to chauffeur his wife.
Chief strategist, image maker and personal confidant, Mr. Morris, 54, has been far more than just a consultant to Mr. Hevesi. And it now appears that he earned much more than just political consulting fees from their relationship.
Since Mr. Hevesi took office in 2003, Mr. Morris created or was employed by half a dozen companies whose main purpose was to help hedge funds, private equity firms and others handle some of the investments of New York State’s $154 billion pension fund.
As comptroller, Mr. Hevesi had sole authority over the fund, and Mr. Morris appears to have been paid handsomely for making introductions: state investigators believe that at least $25 million in fees were paid to Mr. Morris’s business interests during Mr. Hevesi’s four-year tenure.
Mr. Morris’s earnings from pension fund work, along with those of other friends and political allies of Mr. Hevesi, a Democrat, are now the focus of criminal investigations by Attorney General Andrew...
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Mr. Morris became known for running hard-hitting and sometimes audacious campaigns. In 1992, he pushed his mother, Rita, then 68 and a retired community college professor of library science, to run for Congress. She lost. In his slashing approach to the 1998 Senate campaign, he made sure all the world knew that Mr. D’Amato had called Mr. Schumer a “putzhead.”
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And now the whole world knows Schmuckie is a putzhead.
I can think of quite a few things I would call Schumer, and “putzhead” would be mild compared to what Chuckie really is, although “head” would still be used!
Rhymes with duckmit ?
You betcha’!!! :0 )
Thanks for the ping!
So, the “They made me do it” defense is being used, hmm.
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