"Top aide to N.Y. governor Paterson resigns; Didn't pay taxes from 2001-2005" by Associated Press | October 25, 2008
ALBANY, N.Y. - Governor David Paterson's embattled top aide resigned yesterday, after a week of escalating criticism over his failure to pay $300,000 in taxes on time and his questionable excuse for the lapse.
Chief of staff Charles O'Byrne, who has ties to the Kennedy family, has said clinical depression kept him from paying taxes between 2001 and 2005, before he took the job as secretary to the governor.
I'll have to remember that one.
O'Byrne's problems were first made public in the New York Post on Saturday and O'Byrne has been fighting mounting pressure since then to keep his $178,500-a-year job.
What is with these LOOTERS of state government?
On Tuesday, lawyers for O'Byrne sought to end the controversy by releasing tax data but ended up intensifying the criticism when they blamed the delay on "nonfiler syndrome" related to his depression. One of the tax attorneys said it was a common mental health problem for professionals, but mental health and IRS officials said they never heard of it.
Now you have. And check out these connections:
O'Byrne, a former Jesuit priest who officiated at the wedding of John F. Kennedy Jr. and counseled the Kennedy family three years later after Kennedy died in a plane crash, was the top aide to Paterson.
Please see: John F. Kennedy Jr.
He was responsible for mapping out policy and politics as Paterson rose from the near powerless Democratic minority in the Senate to lieutenant governor, then governor, after Democrat Eliot Spitzer resigned in March amid a prostitution scandal. --more--"
See: Eliot Spitzer Knew!
