Voter Registration Coverup?

LOPEZ, VITO J

THIS DATA IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

NEW YORK VOTER REGISTRATIONS

Name: LOPEZ, VITO J

Address:
64 CONSELYEA STREET 1 FL.
BROOKLYN, NY 11211


County: KINGS

Date of Birth: 6/5/1941

Gender: MALE

VOTER INFORMATION

Party Affiliation: DEMOCRATIC

Registration Date: 1/1/1984

Date Last Voted: 11/2/2004

Congressional District: 12

State Senate District: 17

State House District: 53

Precinct: 01

VOTING HISTORY

PRIMARY ELECTION 2002: VOTED
GENERAL ELECTION 2002: VOTED
PRIMARY ELECTION 2001: VOTED
GENERAL ELECTION 2001: VOTED
PRIMARY ELECTION 2000: VOTED
GENERAL ELECTION 2000: VOTED
PRIMARY ELECTION 1997: VOTED
GENERAL ELECTION 1997: VOTED
PRIMARY ELECTION 1996: VOTED
GENERAL ELECTION 1996: VOTED
64 CONSELYEA STREET 1 FL. Was own by the director Lilly Tarantino of a non profit called Swing 60’s Senior Center – According to the buzz it was one room that Vito rented in that private home.

One week after the Post article below Vito moved to Stanhope Street to a larger apartment.




Norman's Successor Facing Own Scandal

By Jim Hinch
New York Post
November, 25, 2005

Just one month after replacing scandal-plagued pol Clarence Norman as Brooklyn Democratic Party boss, Assemblyman Vito Lopez appears headed for his own tub of legal hot water.

Three activists have filed a complaint with the Brooklyn DA, alleging Lopez used a fake address on his voter-registration form and doesn't live in his Brooklyn district.

Instead, say the activists, Lopez for years has shacked up in a Queens condo owned by his Former Brooklyn Democratic party bossgirlfriend, Planning Commissioner Angela
Clarence Norman (above) was indicted Battaglia, who also happens to be executive
for four offenses. director of a housing nonprofit Lopez founded.

A spokesman confirmed that the district attorney had received the complaint, dated Oct. 24, but declined to say if an investigation has begun.

Falsifying a voter-registration address is a felony.

When told of the complaint, Lopez's chief of staff, Allison Hirsh, said, "I have no comment," and hung up the phone. Battaglia did not return a phone call to her commission office.

"Vito Lopez is not above the law," said Joseph Garber, one of three signatories on the complaint.

Garber, an activist in Lopez's district who has worked against Lopez-backed judicial candidates, said the pol's alleged fake address has been an open secret among insiders for years.

Garber said he and other disgusted activists decided to air the dirty laundry when Lopez ascended to Norman's throne atop the Kings County Democratic Party in October with vows to clean the organization up.

"Now Lopez is going to be the choirmaster. He'll do just like Clarence Norman, if not worse," said Arthur Steier, another signatory.

Since becoming party leader, Lopez has been throwing his weight around, recently vowing to be a kingmaker in the race for City Council speaker.

Property records show that the address where Lopez is registered to vote, 64 Conselyea St. in Williamsburg, is owned by a woman named Tillie Tarantino.

Tarantino is executive director of the Swinging 60s Senior Center in Greenpoint, which is funded by a Lopez-backed nonprofit.

Reached by The Post at the senior center, Tarantino was asked if Lopez lives at the Conselyea Street house.

"No comment," she said, and hung up

The New York Post

October 1, 2005 Saturday


SECTION: Sports+Late City Final; Pg. 2

LENGTH: 140 words

HEADLINE: DEM FOES CALL BROOKLYN POL OUT AT HOME

BYLINE: Jim Hinch

BODY:
Political opponents of Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez are preparing to file a complaint with prosecutors that Lopez does not live at the house where he is registered to vote, but instead is shacking up with his girlfriend in Queens.
Lopez was lobbying hard this week to replace recently convicted Assemblyman Clarence Norman as Brooklyn's Democratic Party leader.
Allies of civil court judge candidate Martin Needleman, whom Lopez opposed in last month's primary, say Lopez will need to clean up his own act before replacing the tainted county leader.
Calls to Lopez's district office were not returned.
Lopez is registered to vote at a house on Conselyea Street in Williamsburg. But property records show the house is owned by Tillie Tarantino, who heads a senior citizens center operated by a nonprofit Lopez founded.