A Democratic New York state assemblywoman hired a former boyfriend with no experience to run a taxpayer-funded nonprofit at a generous salary of $75,000 a year.
The New York Post reports:
Bronx Democratic Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera allegedly used a taxpayer-funded nonprofit as her personal piggy bank, installed her unqualified lover as the group’s leader — and then helped him get a fat raise so he could take her on nice dates.
"I had no background in nonprofits," said former boyfriend Vincent Pinela, who detailed the shocking arrangement to The Post.
Pinela, a personal trainer, was executive director of the Bronx Council for Economic Development from 2006, when he started dating Rivera, until 2010, shortly after they broke up.
"I shouldn’t have been hired," he said.
The allegations come a week after The Post revealed that Rivera put the man she dated after Pinela, Tommy Torres, on her state payroll. He was paid $1,100 a week as a "community-relations director" at the same time he had a full-time job as a Brooklyn gym teacher and coach.
