ALBANY --Disgraced ex-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi will be freed from prison tomorrow morning after serving 20 months in a pay-to-play pension scandal, authorities said..
The fiscal watchdog turned felon has been serving time at the Mid-State Correctional Facility in upstate Oneida County. He will be released about 8 a.m.
Hevesi, 72, was granted a second bid for parole last month. Comptroller from 2003 to 2006, he admitted to taking $1 million from a pension fund investor to finance gifts and campaign contributions.
He previously served as city comptroller and ran for mayor in 2001.
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Alan Hevesi.
Hevesi will return to the family home in Forest Hills.
A fixture in Queen politics, he served in the state Assembly from 1971 to 1993.
Hevesi will remain under parole supervision through April 14, 2015.
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