Disgraced former state comptroller Alan Hevesi is appearing before a state parole board this afternoon, to make his second annual bid for release, state corrections officials said.
Hevesi will appear before the board at Mid-State Correctional in Oneida County, where he is being lodged as Inmate 11-R-1334. A decision will be announced as early as tomorrow, state corrections officials said.
Nine letters of support have been submitted to the parole board on his behalf, along with one letter in opposition of Hevesi being paroled, according to corrections officials, who called the details of the letters and their authors confidential.
Hevesi, 72, has been behind bars since April, 2011, when he was sentenced in Manhattan to one-to-four years prison for his leading role in the Pay-to-Play pension scandal.
His previous release bid, in December, was shot down in a 2-1 vote by the board, which cited the disgraced pol’s “shallow” remorse in its decision.
The once-influential Democrat from Forest Hills, Queens, had served as the state’s chief fiscal officer from 2003 until 2006, when he was booted for a prior scandal — for having staffers chauffeur his seriously ill wife for three years.
But what put Hevesi in state prison was admittedly pocketing $1 million in travel, campaign contributions and other perks in return for granting access to the state’s giant, $130 billion pension pot to investment firms who were willing to “Pay-to-Play.”