NY Former [GOLISANO!] Candidate Indicted for Election Fraud

Bloomberg no url | 10/22/02

[NativeNewYorker]

New York, Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Daniel Mahony, a former

candidate for New York State lieutenant governor, was charged with

elections law violations for allegedly voting twice in the 2000

and 2001 general elections, the Manhattan District Attorney's

office said in a press release.

     Mahony was the running mate of gubernatorial candidate Thomas

Golisano in the Conservative Party primary until newspapers

published reports of voting irregularities. Mahony registered to

vote under two names and two Manhattan addresses, prosecutors

said.

     ''The investigation revealed that in two consecutive general

elections -- Nov. 7, 2000 and Nov. 6, 2001 -- both 'Daniel F.

Mahony' and 'Dan Mahoney' actually voted,'' Manhattan District

Attorney Robert Morgenthau said in the press release.

     Golisano, the chairman and president of Paychex Inc., a

Rochester-based payroll services firm, lost a challenge to

Governor George Pataki on the Conservative Party line and won the

state's Independence Party primary.

     Mahony, 47, dropped out of the campaign on Aug. 14, telling

elections officials he had moved to Connecticut, Morgenthau said

in the press release. Investigators found that Mahony still lived

in an apartment in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town housing complex on

East 14th Street.

     ''If Dan Mahony voted twice, he's got to face the music,''

Golisano said during an interview with Bloomberg News reporters

and editors. ''I just hope he didn't vote for George Pataki

twice.''

                          Parking Ticket

     Mahony surrendered to prosecutors earlier today to await

arraignment before Acting State Supreme Court Justice Brenda

Soloff. Mahony's attorney, Alan Futerfas, didn't immediately

respond to messages left at his office.

     In an unrelated matter, Mahony was charged with making a

false statement to an administrative judge while appealing a

parking ticket. Investigators trying to determine Mahony's primary

residence saw him move and then photograph his car after it had

received a ticket near Stuyvesant Town.

     Mahony submitted the photo to a parking violations judge as

proof that he had been loading his car at the time the ticket was

issued and that it wasn't illegally parked. The $55 fine was

reduced to $30, Morgenthau said.

     Mahony faces as much as eight years in prison if convicted of

both charges.