Hevesi Family Troubles Continue

Alan Hevesi (D-felon) may have thought his troubles were over when he stepped down as New York State Comptroller earlier this year after pleading guilty to a single felony count and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 and repay more than $200,000.

Hevesi's successor, Thomas DiNapoli (D), has found some serious problems. Numerous records are missing, and claims that there may be criminal wrongdoing as well possibly implicating Hevesi and several other high ranking officials at the Comptrollers Office.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli - charging that his predecessor, Alan Hevesi, and top aides had engaged in "unethical, irresponsible and possibly criminal activity" - yesterday fingered a former senior official as responsible for the disappearance of hundreds of sensitive pension-fund documents.

DiNapoli, who took over in February after Hevesi pleaded guilty to using state workers to help his wife, said he has been cooperating with a new probe of Hevesi and his top deputies being conducted by Albany County District Attorney David Soares.

"It is apparent that former Comptroller Hevesi and others on his staff engaged in unethical, irresponsible and possibly criminal activity," DiNapoli said in a stunning statement last night.

"We will continue to fully cooperate with law-enforcement officials to ensure that any wrongdoing by the Hevesi administration is uncovered and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," he said.

DiNapoli said missing records documenting the investment of tens of millions of dollars of pension-fund monies and the fees that were paid for managing the funds - first disclosed in yesterday's Post - disappeared from the desk of Deputy Comptroller for Pension Investment David Loglisci, who resigned from his $201,000-a-year job May 10.

"Shortly after Loglisci's resignation, my staff discovered certain records were missing from Loglisci's desk," DiNapoli said. "We immediately informed District Attorney Soares and began work to recover these documents."

DiNapoli spokesman Dennis Tompkins said Loglisci was "the last one we were aware of who knew where these documents were."

Loglisci, a lawyer and one-time vice president of investment banking at Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney, was named to his post by Hevesi in 2004.

The Post revealed that officials were attempting to reconstruct the missing documents by obtaining copies from firms that have done business with the state pension fund.

Among the pages of documents are potentially sensitive listings of the names of the persons who received payments for arranging the investment of pension monies with several management companies, sources said.

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