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Ex-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi to be freed from prison Wednesday

ALBANY –Disgraced ex-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi will be freed from prison tomorrow morning 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 will be released about 8 a.m.

Hevesi, 72, was granted a second bid for parole last month. Comptroller from 2003 to 2006, he admitted to taking $1 million from a pension fund investor to finance gifts and campaign contributions.

He previously served as city comptroller and ran for mayor in 2001.

Hevesi will return to the family home in Forest Hills.

A fixture in Queen politics, he served in the state Assembly from 1971 to 1993.

Hevesi will remain under parole supervision through April 14, 2015.