FUMING: Walter Mapes (left, yesterday) is incensed that beleaguered City Councilman Dan Halloran (center) carried on an illicit affair with Mapes’ co-ed daughter, Meaghan. (
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Disgraced City Councilman Dan Halloran preyed upon the “naive” staffer with whom he carried on a yearlong affair — and should rot in jail, the woman’s father told The Post yesterday.
“He took advantage of a naive 19-to-20-year-old girl,” Meaghan Mapes’ dad, Walter Mapes, said of the pol, who is charged with trying to bribe state Sen. Malcolm Smith’s way onto the GOP mayoral ticket.
“What [Halloran] did to the public is nothing like what he did to me and my family,” Walter said outside the family’s home in Howard Beach, Queens.
The Post reported yesterday that Halloran, 41, spent about two nights a week shacking up with Meaghan at her Queens home near St. John’s University, where she attended classes while serving as Halloran’s deputy chief of staff.
The affair broke up Halloran’s marriage.
“I was completely unaware of it,” said Walter, 48. “I knew nothing more than [Meaghan] was the deputy chief of staff and that they worked together; that was all that I knew.”
Now he wants Halloran to pay — and expects that Halloran will be convicted in the federal bribery case.
“I don’t know if I’ll be present at his trial, but I’m looking forward to his sentencing, because no doubt he will be found guilty,” Walter said.
“Obviously he’s an unethical, unscrupulous person who has no moral compass.”
Meaghan was paid $30,000 a year on Halloran’s staff, on which she served between 2010-2011 — about the same time as the affair.
She was also paid three $1,000 checks from his campaign war chest in 2009.
Meaghan’s mom, Deirdra, a public-school teacher, headed to Charlottesville, Va., yesterday to console their daughter, a University of Virginia law student who her dad said is “doing as well as can be expected.”
Meaghan, now 23, was a no-show for her classes yesterday.
Halloran is a practicing Theodist who formed his own pagan tribe called New Normandy.
Ironically, the pol was most fond of Tyr — the god of justice.
Additional reporting by Rebecca Rosenberg in Charlottesville, Va.