ALBANY – Crime may not pay, but prison sure can, especially for a convicted New York official.
A former Assemblyman and Parole Board member who pleaded guilty Wednesday to using the Internet to entice minors for sex will collect a $53,000-a-year pension for the rest of his life – while serving a minimum term of 10 years in a federal prison, The Post learned yesterday.
A state official, at The Post’s request, calculated the likely pension for Christopher Ortloff, 61, a Plattsburgh/Adirondacks Republican who was named to the $101,600-a-year Parole Board post in 2006 by then-Gov. George Pataki.
The official said the exact pension for Ortloff, who has 27 years of state retirement credits, cannot be calculated until he files the required legal papers.
The state Constitution does not permit state employees’ pension benefits to be reduced for any reason.
Ortloff, who could get up to life in prison, was released on $100,000 bail, pending sentencing on April 23. He resigned from the Parole Board after his arrest on Oct. 13 at a motel near the Albany County airport in a federal/state sting aimed at sexual predators.
In court, he admitted to having repeatedly e-mailed and called what he thought was a woman pimping out her 11- and 12- year-old daughters. Cops found video equipment and “sex paraphernalia” in his hotel room.