Posted on 10/22/2002 11:46:36 AM PDT by 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.
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