Sen. Pedro Espada, the dissident Democrat whose defection to the Republican camp helped trigger the State Senate crisis in Albany, is ready to return to the Democratic Party, according to published reports. Earlier, Gov. David Paterson says his new lieutenant governor won’t immediately preside over a special Senate session because pending legal action has muddied the [...]
The Bronx politician at the center of the Albany coup has new problems, CBS 2 has learned exclusively. Official documents we obtained show Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. listed his residence as a home in Mamaroneck, not his Bronx district. When Espada was first asked by CBS 2 HD whether he actually lives in the district [...]
One of the Democratic state senators who defected to the GOP in a legislative coup earlier this week said today that his Westchester home had been broken into and that files had been stolen. Sen. Pedro Espada said his Mamoranack home office had been burglarized Monday, just hours after the Republicans mounted an historic power-grab [...]
