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City Controller Alan Hevesi took sides yesterday in a City Council primary slugfest, endorsing Pauline Chu in her contest with veteran Flushing incumbent Julia Harrison. Hevesi, of Forest Hills, cited controversial remarks made by Harrison last April, when she was quoted as saying Asian immigrants in Flushing "were more like colonizers" than other groups that had settled in her district. Chu, an Asian-American who lost a primary to Harrison in 1991, is president of Community School Board 25.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is now taking on one-time Obama "car czar" Steve Rattner.On Monday, Trump fired off a tweet telling Rattner: "I think you should have gone to prison for what you did, I guess Obama saved you." He ended the tweet telling Rattner to watch: "I will win!" It was unclear what activity Trump was referring to that should have landed Rattner in jail. Trump did not respond to CNNMoney's request for comment. In 2010, Rattner did pay $10 million in fines when he settled with the New York state attorney general for his alleged involvement in a...

Lesson: If you're NY State Comptroller and the only one who oversees the $140+ billion state pension fund, don't accept money for directing funds to certain investment firms. Because you could end up like Alan Hevesi—71 years old with health problems and looking at one to four years in prison. City Room posted his mugshot and it's a far cry from his 2006 mugshot, where he admitted to misusing state staffers to chauffeur his sick wife around (he was a felon, but didn't get jail time). Shortly after entering Ulster Correctional last week, Hevesi was admitted the prison infirmary. His...

It's Carl again w/update from the road. I'm in NYC, Greg Edwards is in Buffalo. Event after event - lots of momentum! I just found out: Cuomo refuses to say if he gave former comptroller Alan Hevesi jail time for taking a million$$ in bribes. Law Journal wrote he cut the deal with Hevesi to get a plea last week. But Andy won't tell. Now the Law Journal changed their story online - strange. Lucky we scanned the original article: http://paladinoforthepeople.com/hevesi_lawjournal.php What's the deal, Andy? Voters want to know did you and Hevesi cut a another deal for no jail...

EXCLUSIVE The explosive probe of NY state's pension fund may find payments by an Israeli company kicked back to indicted political guru Democrat Hank Morris.......Israel-based Giza Venture Capital paid DAV-Wetherly Financial, LA, a substantial finder's fee after it got to manage $20M in state pension funds in 2005......DAV-Wetherly, in turn, secretly gave part of the fee to Searle & Co, Conn...... NY AG Andrew Cuomo, has charged that Morris used Searle to illegally get $15M in kickbacks. Giza was given the contract as part of ousted Democrat Comptroller Alan Hevesi's efforts to pursue "investment opportunities" with Israeli-based companies. But the...

George Pataki once again has blinked. He had the chance to take out controller Alan Hevesi, who has once again been forced to pay back money he stole from the State of New York for his wife's chauffeur but instead is hiding behind the pronouncements of Federal Prosecutor David Kelly, who has stated "that there is sufficient evidence for an indictment . . .but not sure of the rules of evidence that would be used in a State Senate trial." Pataki needed to say the words, "He must go now" - so that underdog Chris Callaghan can win as controller,...

ALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer delivered a devastating blow yesterday to Alan Hevesi, withdrawing his re-election endorsement, saying the scandal-scarred state comptroller is unfit for office, and laying the groundwork for a replacement. In an extraordinary statement that could set in motion the end of Hevesi's long political career, Spitzer, the all-but-certain next governor, said he is convinced the Ethics Commission's scathing conclusion that the comptroller broke the law by using a state worker to chauffeur his wife "presents information that compromises Alan Hevesi's ability to fulfill his responsibilities." Spitzer then went on to say he believed that fellow...

The Ethics Commission's findings of wrong doing by Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday are just the start of the embattled Democrat's problems. The state Legislature now has the report and, along with the governor, will have to determine whether to move forward with proceedings to remove Hevesi from office. Democrats have already been discussing the possibility of Hevesi stepping down soon after the election, if he wins. It would be up to the Legislature to name a replacement. Among those being mentioned as possible replacements for Hevesi are William Mulrow, who lost to Hevesi in the Democratic primary four years ago,...

For the second time in recent days, he's taken to task on the misuse of the public's money No one is suggesting this election season that New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi lacks the specialized skills to perform one of the more critical jobs in state government. The questions instead are simple enough to be of the layman's variety. For example, where is this man's common sense? Last week should have had Mr. Hevesi especially on guard. It began with him having to repay the state some $83,000 after he was caught using a comptroller's office employee to act as a...

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. - Comptroller Alan Hevesi offered his first public apology yesterday for failing to reimburse the state for using one of his employees to chauffeur his wife since 2003. "It was irresponsible of me," Hevesi said at a meeting of the New York State Association of Counties. "For the comptroller of the state of New York, it was really inappropriate." Hevesi, who is seeking a second four-year term as the state's chief financial officer, acknowledged last week he had not reimbursed the state for the cost of having his wife driven around by a state employee since 2003....

Republican candidate for governor John Faso tells News 8 Democratic State Comptoller Alan Hevesi is a criminal and he should resign. Faso made those comments in an interview here at Channel 8 Friday. He says Hevesi is getting away with a crime and his Democratic opponent for governor, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, is doing nothing about it. Earlier this week Hevesi agreed to reimburse the state $82,000 after is was revealed he used a state employee as his wife's chauffeur for the last three years. "And I'm appalled the comptroller of the state of New York has admitted now he...

SACRAMENTO — Soon after taking office in January 2003, state Controller Steve Westly began helping three venture capital firms land multimillion-dollar investments from California's giant pension system, according to public records including e-mails and officials' calendars. Westly, now running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, received campaign donations from individuals associated with each of the funds, campaign finance records show. At any given time, hundreds of fund managers are angling for CalPERS investments. Westly is one of 13 members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System board, and as the state's chief financial officer, one of the most influential. The funds...

The Democrat who represents Manhattan's East Side on the City Council, Eva Moskowitz, made a courageous move in declining the Independence Party's line in her race for borough president. 'snip' the party's failure to repudiate an anti-Semitic remark by one of its activists, Lenora Fulani. 'snip' Eliot Spitzer, Governor Pataki, Senator Schumer, Mayor Bloomberg, and State Comptroller Alan Hevesi all now have a choice of following Ms. Moskowitz's lead or letting be known the compromises they are willing to overlook in exchange for a ballot line.

<p>When it comes to the old switcheroo, Frank Lautenberg and New Jersey's Democrats have nothing on Alan Hevesi and New York Dems. Yesterday, an Albany judge allowed Hevesi to sub for Bill Mulrow on the Working Families Party line in the race for state comptroller.</p>