ALBANY — An ex-state Assembly member who quit over a residency scandal two years ago is heading back into the political scene, helping raise money for state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
Ann-Margaret Carrozza, who represented an eastern Queens district, is billed as a featured speaker at a DiNapoli fund-raiser on Oct. 17, The Post has learned.
DiNapoli asked Carrozza, his former Assembly colleague who now runs a law firm, to talk about the presidential race at the $100-per-person New Hyde Park event — the night after nearby Hofstra University hosts one of the three presidential debates.
Carrozza said she’ll talk about how Obamacare could impact seniors, Medicare and Social Security.
Carrozza’s move from Queens to tony Glen Head in 2008 prompted a probe by then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo into whether she misrepresented her primary residence in mortgage documents. She claimed no wrongdoing was ever proven, but she dropped her re-election bid in 2010 due to bad publicity over the residency issue and her poor attendance record in Albany in 2009.A DiNapoli campaign spokesman had no comment.
Carrozza said she “will continue doing everything I can to support” fellow Democrat DiNapoli and other candidates.
Former state Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs and Robert Zimmerman, a Democratic national committeeman and TV political commentator, are scheduled to join Carrozza in the presidential discussion at the DiNapoli fundraiser.