New law bars convicted ex-pols from running Cuomo besieged as crises grow County parties hold off on mayoral endorsements
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Mayor Bill de Blasio
signed legislation on Thursday designed to prevent individuals convicted of felony public corruption from holding city office again. If that sounds like the kind of implausible scenario that wouldn’t take a law to prevent, you haven’t met Hiram Monserrate.
The former state senator from Queens was expelled from the Legislature after a domestic violence conviction where he was accused of slashing his girlfriend’s face with a broken glass. Then, he did time in federal prison for an entirely separate crime illegally steering public funds to his campaign when he served on the City Council.
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