Disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi was slated to be freed from prison today 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 was scheduled to be let loose at about 8 a.m.
Hevesi, 72, sentenced to one to four years, was granted parole last month.
State comptroller from 2003 to 2006, he admitted taking $1 million from a pension-fund investor to finance gifts and trips and campaign contributions in a case prosecuted by then-state Attorney General and now Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Hevesi previously served as city comptroller and ran for mayor in 2001.
He will return to his family’s home in Forest Hills, Queens.
Hevesi receives a taxpayer-funded pension of $105,689.