Local legislator allegedly AWOL in Albany following January indictment
Not showing up to work, but still collecting checks.
That’s what Assemblymember Pamela Harris has been doing, according to the New York Daily News, ever since she was indicted on 11 counts in federal court on the morning of Tuesday, January 9, for allegedly defrauding various government entities of tens of thousands of dollars.
Harris, says the News, has failed to attend meetings in Albany on behalf of residents of the 46th Assembly District since being charged with two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, four counts of making false statements, two counts of bankruptcy fraud, one count of witness tampering and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice in relation to a variety of alleged schemes that arose in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, leaving her constituents without representation in the state Assembly.