Gov. Paterson appoints party loyalists to cushy Parole Board jobs with salaries over $100,000
Posted by Brooklyn Young Republican Club
Source: Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News
It’s officially patronage season for Gov. Paterson and his pals.
Paterson, with just five months left in his term, is quietly doling out five cushy commissioner posts on the Parole Board — long considered a patronage dumping ground.
The five lucky Democrats are in line for six-year appointments that pay out $101,600 a year — and stretch well through the four-year term of the next governor.
Chief among Paterson’s picks for the cozy commissioner slots is Seny Taveras, a longtime Paterson aide going back to his days in the state Senate.
Another is ex-Cattaraugus County Democratic District Attorney Edward Sharkey, who was bounced from office at the polls last fall.
The other fortunate members of the 101G club are:
- Henry Lemons, the former acting board chairman whose term has expired.
- Richard Clarke, a former city cop and security boss for the Westchester County Parks Department.
- Lynn Anne Tabbott, a former assistant attorney general under ex-attorney general turned disgraced Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Shockingly, Paterson had tried to do away with the posh positions he’s now filling.
