Just go home: Queens assemblywoman lives in big-bucks L.I. mansion
Monday, July 6th 2009, 4:00 AM
DelMundo for News
Ann-Margaret Carrozza outside her home located in Glen Head, Long Island.
The photo was a case study in arrogance - arrogance toward the law, arrogance toward New York City, arrogance toward the people who live therein.
The source of all this offensiveness was Assemblywoman Ann-Margaret Carrozza, caught by the Daily News in the driveway of her $1.8 million home on Long Island's Gold Coast. Well outside the legal confines of her elective district in Queens.
Queens? Who would ever want to live in Queens? And Bayside? How pitiful it would be to live in Bayside when Glen Head is so much the ritzier.
Time was, city politicians at least had the good graces to be ashamed when they were caught in the suburbs. Not Carrozza. Her preening for the camera exemplified the above-the-rules contempt that has become epidemic in Albany.
Carrozza also takes her constituents for morons.
Confronted by Daily News reporter John Lauinger, she piled whopper upon whopper until she verged on admitting to the crime of having deceived her bank.
Story One: Carrozza and her husband, Dr. William Duke, had begun to feel cramped in their Bayside quarters, what with having a growing family and all.
Story Two: The Duke/Carrozzas were all set to buy a new place in Bayside, but the deal fell through.
Story Three: In desperate need of space, the Duke/Carrozzas felt forced to latch onto a house for almost $2 mil about 15 miles away.
Story Four: "My primary residence is in Bayside - and we're temporarily renting that out."
Story Five: On mortgage documents, the Duke/Carrozzas attested that the Glen Head manse was their primary residence.
Which all adds up to Carrozza being guilty of fraud on her constituents or fraud on her lender.
However the authorities sort it out - and they must - Carrozza has abandoned her community, her city and all rights to her job.
She owes her former neighbors a letter of resignation, but she needn't look up the zip code.
It is 11359.
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