Former Senator Huntley Wore Wire While in Office
By Erica Orden
- Associated Press
- In this May 11, 2010 file photo, New York state Sen. Shirley Huntley, D-Queens, greets former New York Mets and New York Yankees slugger Darryl Strawberry at a news conference.
Former state Sen. Shirley Huntley wore a wire for three months last year, the filings show, during which time the recordings captured nine people, including seven elected officials and two people who had previously worked as a staff member or consultant to elected officials.
An attorney for Huntley didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
While recordings of four of the elected officials and two others didn’t produce evidence of criminal activity, according to the filings, recordings of meetings Huntley allegedly held with an unnamed state senator and two other elected officials “did yield evidence useful to law enforcement authorities.”
The filings said “details of those recordings are discussed in a separate sealed letter to be filed next week.”
Huntley wore the wire between June and August 2012, according to the filings. The former lawmaker was voted out of office in November.
Huntley, a former Democratic state senator from Queens, has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in a federal corruption case. She is scheduled to be sentenced May 9.
Huntley’s wire-wearing recalls that of another former state lawmaker, former Bronx Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who in April resigned from his seat following revelations that he was a cooperating witness in the investigation of Democratic Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson.
As part of Nelson’s cooperation agreement with state and federal prosecutors, he wore a wire for four years while in office. Evidence produced by those recordings led to federal corruption charges against Stevenson and four others. Stevenson and his attorney have denied the allegations.
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