Where is the justice? He resigns and is able to keep all his pensions, benefits and live the rest of his life sucking off the taxpayer? This guy rec’d $360 thousand a year from you and I and is very wealthy because of us.

Commit a crime in New York as a politican and you get slapped on the hand and then say goodbye. He should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law.

HEVESI WILL PLEAD & QUIT
DEAL WITH DA TOMORROW IN 200G CHAUFFEUR RIP-OFF

December 21, 2006 — ALBANY - Disgraced state Comptroller Alan Hevesi has agreed to resign from office tomorrow and plead guilty to a crime as part of a plea bargain with the Albany district attorney, sources said last night.

A senior Democratic official told The Post that Hevesi, who has been accused of using four state workers as personal aides to chauffeur and run errands for his wife for years, has begun informing friends and family members that he will step down.

A spokeswoman for Albany County DA David Soares said last night she was unaware of Hevesi’s decision.

“No plea deal has been signed, nothing has been sealed, and nothing has been delivered,” the spokeswoman, Rachel McEneny, said.

However, the senior Democratic official said Hevesi, who has served as comptroller since 2002 and was re-elected in November, has agreed to plead guilty to at least one crime as part of a deal.

Another prominent Democrat said he believed Hevesi may have made the decision to enter a guilty plea after a late-afternoon meeting yesterday with his lawyers. But he may have not yet relayed that decision to Soares.

Sources close to the DA’s office said the prosecutor was insisting that Hevesi admit to a felony offense, while the comptroller was holding out for a misdemeanor charge. It remained unclear last night how the dispute had been resolved.

Hevesi’s resignation will be good news for Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer, who has feared that Hevesi’s ongoing legal problems would cast a shadow over Spitzer’s new, reform-minded administration in January.

As a result, Spitzer has sought to make it clear to Hevesi that he would likely ask the GOP-controlled Senate to begin proceedings to remove him from office if the comptroller sought to begin a new four-year term on Jan. 1.

A resignation and guilty plea by Hevesi would be unprecedented in modern state political history. It also would be one of the most bizarre turns of events ever seen on the New York political scene.

Hevesi appeared to be coasting to an easy re-election victory in early fall when his virtually unknown Republican challenger, former Saratoga County Treasurer Christopher Callaghan, charged that the comptroller was regularly using a state worker as a chauffeur for his wife.