ALBANY — Grabby Assemblyman Vito Lopez keeps moving down in the world.
Assembly honchos yesterday relocated the accused sex harasser further from the chamber’s rostrum, giving the 30-year-veteran’s second-row seat to freshman Ron Kim and sticking Lopez back a row between an upstate Republican and two other freshmen.
It’s the latest indignity for Lopez (D-Brooklyn), who was stripped of his powerful $12,500-a-year chairmanship of the Assembly Housing Committee last summer after the ethics committee charged him with sexually harassing young female aides.
Lopez, being probed by the state’s ethics watchdog agency and Staten Island DA Dan Donovan for his alleged misdeeds, has also been moved from a fancy suite in Albany’s Legislative Office Building to a two-room office.
Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) ordered a reduction in Lopez’s Assembly staff through attrition and barred him from working with female interns under 21.
Lopez, who has resisted calls for him to resign, denies the sex-harassment allegations.