Disgraced Rep. Vito Fossella is hiding out in a tiny apartment above a garage at his sister’s Staten Island house, the Daily News has learned. “He’s staying there,” a neighbor said Monday, pointing to the home of Lori Ceciliani, one of the Republican lawmaker’s five sisters. The neighbor said Fossella has been coming and going [...]
Democratic and GOP congressional officials are scrutinizing Rep. Vito Fossella’s mysterious and pricey January 2003 trip to France, the Daily News has learned. He was the sole lawmaker authorized to go – and his mistress is suspected of joining him. The Staten Island Republican visited La Hague, France, supposedly on a “fact-finding” mission. Lawmakers commonly [...]
Despite calls for him to resign, it seems embattled Congressman Vito Fossella will be fighting to keep his seat on Capitol Hill in November. A high-ranking Republican source on Staten Island told NY1 yesterday that Fossella plans to run for re-election. It would be his sixth term. The source also told NY1 that Fossella is [...]
Republican Congressman Vito Fosella Confesses To Fathering 3-Year Old With Woman Not His Wife Rep. Vito Fossella has admitted fathering a 3-year-old daughter with a woman outside his marriage. The Republican congressman from New York City made the announcement Thursday amid heavy scrutiny after his arrest for drunken driving last week in suburban Washington. Police [...]
In an ominous sign for Rep. Vito Fossella, the campaign arm of the national Republican Party is refusing to support him publicly. When asked to comment on the race in New York’s 13th District, which includes Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, Julie Shutley, said only that [...]
Embattled Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella’s wife was blindsided by allegations he may have fathered a love child, and is unlikely to stay at his side if it turns out to be true, a source close to the family said. “She’s not going to be standing by her man,” the source told The Post yesterday. [...]
When cops stopped Rep. Vito Fossella for drunken driving, the married congressman said he was rushing to see his sick daughter on nearby Grimm St. – the home of the mystery woman who later plucked him from jail. Fossella’s spokeswoman has insisted the single mom, Air Force Col. Laura Fay, 45, was only a “good [...]
The mystery woman who last week signed Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella out of jail following his drunken-driving arrest gave up her own promising intelligence career at the Pentagon when she couldn’t juggle the demands of raising a daughter on her own, her relatives said. Laura Fay, 45, a comely blonde with two failed marriages, [...]
Shamed Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella issued an abject apology today after he was busted for drunken driving in Virginia. Calling it “an error in judgment,” Fossella accepted total blame. “As a parent, I know that taking even one drink of alcohol before getting behind the wheel of a car is wrong,” the Republican rep [...]
