Assemblyman Felix Ortiz is Missing Money
Assemblyman Felix Ortiz is missing 80K and he doesn’t know it. The news reported that money has been taken from January 2012 to January of this year. And Ortiz didn’t know?! See here, here and here.
Ortiz represents Sunset Park and part of Bay Ridge. The news is reporting that his 29-year-old chief of staff has something to do with it.
Strangely, Maruf Alam’s salary decreased from 2017 to 2018.
The Daily News revealed this: Alam received two checks written on the accounts that he oversaw: One for $3,700 in January 2019 and a second for $3,800 in May 2018.
Maruf Alam was released on a $100,000 bond. Alam’s mother had to put up her home in Kensington for the bond (how awful for his Mother to be put through this). He is also referred to as Mitu Alam.
If Alam is found guilty, he could get up to 20 years in jail.
Update: Maruf Alam and Ortiz knew about this since July. Maruf Alam agreed to surrender for a felony offense. (From here)
Yet Ortiz took until Friday, August 9, 2019 to fire him:
Did he just think this was going to go away?
On Friday, August 9th, Ortiz refused to speak with residents at his office. See here
Hugs,
marlene
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