ALBANY — Disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi will come home to Queens from his upstate jail cell to enjoy the $166,000 a year he collects from two public pensions.
Hevesi (pictured), 72, was granted parole yesterday, and will be released by Dec. 19 after serving 19 months for accepting gifts and campaign donations in a pay-to-play scheme involving the state’s $150 billion state-pension fund.
Even while behind bars at Midstate Correctional Facility, Hevesi has been receiving two pensions, one from his days as a state assemblyman, and another for being a retired CUNY professor.
A source close to Hevesi said he plans to return to his family home in Forest Hills, where his son, Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Queens), lives with his wife and his 3-year-old daughter, one of Alan Hevesi’s three grandchildren.
He will also be able to see his ailing wife, Carol, who has been living in a nursing home.
As comptroller from 2003 to 2006, Hevesi was sole trustee of the fund for a million state and local government workers and beneficiaries, now valued at nearly $150 billion.
He was one of the state’s most prominent Democrats when he pleaded guilty to official misconduct in 2010 and was sentenced to one to four years in prison. His first parole bid was denied last year.
His lawyer, Bradley Simon, said Hevesi was doing well, despite various health issues.
Under the terms of his release, Hevesi will not be allowed to associate with his co-conspirators in the scheme, including political consultant Hank Morris.
Morris, serving 1 1/3 to 4 years, was denied parole in his first attempt in February and turned down again yesterday.