“Pedro Espada Jr. Lives In The Bronx”
So says Pedro Espada Jr. in this interview with New York Now that will air tonight and over the weekend on PBS stations across the state.
The Democratic senator, who represents the Bronx, is under investigation by the Bronx district attorney over whether he actually resides at his home in Mamaroneck, Westchester County, outside his legislative director.
“The Mamaroneck home was purchased in 1991 before I even became a senator,” Espada says in the interview. “It is home to my grandchildren.”
Espada goes on to reject any allegation that he lives full-time in Mamaroneck. Last month he gave the Daily News a tour of his Bronx co-op, showing that he lives there. Neighbors said he had just shown up the night before, and others said they never saw him before.
Espada, now Democratic majority leader after rejoining the Democrats last week, said the issue of his residency has been litigated and that it found “that Pedro Espada Jr. lives in the Bronx.”
Here’s the clip. The show airs in the Hudson Valley 11 a.m. tomorrow on PBS.
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this guy is lying..he has already made a contradictory
statement that “for election purposes” his home is in
the bronx….the issue is where does he sleep for most
of the time….and that answer is mamaroneck and everyone
knows it
but unfortunately they will re-elect him next year along with the rest of them from Westchester south!
Why didn’t the Bronx DA oversee a quiet, thorough, videotaped and photographed, secure investigation that accumulated obvious and necessary evidence and then present it as an airtight case to a grand jury? ANSWER: They have little interest in formally and publicly attacking a sitting politician, ESPECIALLY a minority and would prefer to leak tidbits of info and innuendo so that (they hope) the public eventually votes him out so they have “clean hands” and don’t have to answer to the Party leaders who “need” him and “employ” them!
It’s interesting how many of these Bronx politicians live as far north in the Bronx as possible. In Espada’s case, he “lives” in the Bronx because it is convenient politically. If he did not want a political seat, he would live in Westchester. That’s why he bought a house there.
Will the Bronx DA be looking into the residency of Eliot Engel as well? He too represents the Bronx, and he has made it clear that his full-time residence is in the DC suburbs, NOT New York.
What a weasel.