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Members of New York’s congressional delegation are both among the richest lawmakers in the country and the poorest, with some mired in credit-card debt and others double dipping — collecting both their salaries and state pensions.
Financial disclosures released last week show where the pols put their money, how much they earn from investments and whether they traveled on junkets in 2010.
A Post review found:
* New York’s junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, outranks her senior colleague, Sen. Charles Schumer, when it comes to net worth. Gillibrand reported assets of between $631,006 and $1,315,000, while Schumer’s are between $333,019 and $980,000.
* Nita Lowey, who represents most of Westchester County, is the wealthiest of the area’s delegates, with assets ranging from $15.4 million to $67 million. She listed no liabilities. Her husband, Stephen, a partner in a White Plains law firm, holds most of the couple’s assets, including stocks and investment funds. She’s been ranked the 11th wealthiest member of the House.
* Carolyn Maloney, who represents the Upper East Side, comes in second among the richest local lawmakers, with assets ranging between $12.3 million and $44.6 million. Maloney puts the value of her East 92nd Street town house as up to $25 million, and reports receiving annual rent from apartments there of $50,001 to $100,000. She also owns a row house near the US Capitol valued at up to $5 million.
* The poorer members of the delegation include Nydia Velazquez, who listed assets of up to $5 million, including a brownstone in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, but debts of up to $5.2 million. Velazquez ranked near the bottom in wealth of all House members in 2009, according to OpenSecrets.org. Also near the bottom was Gregory Meeks, who for the second consecutive year lists no assets on his disclosures.
* Double dippers include Lowey, a former New York assistant secretary of state who collects a state pension of $10,172; Peter King, who served three terms at Nassau County comptroller and gets a $39,000 pension; and former state Assemblymen José Serrano and Jerrold Nadler, who both cash state pension checks.
* Eliot Engel of The Bronx owed up to $50,000 on his Visa card at the end of 2010. Nadler had as much as $15,000 in debt on his charge card. Velazquez has credit-card debt of up to $15,000.
* Engel took a two-day junket to New Orleans paid for by the Alpha Epilson Phi fraternity. Long Island’s Steve Israel took a four-day trip to Israel paid for by that country’s government.
* Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner got $850 for an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and Gary Ackerman got $2,000 for a speech to the Connell Co., a New Jersey-based conglomerate. The money went to charity in both cases.
* Rep. Israel reaped a “windfall” in uncollected funds from the state Comptroller’s Office. He explained that the money came from 60 shares of Disney stock he bought around 1987 through a now-defunct brokerage. At the time, the investment would likely have cost a few hundred dollars. He said he was unable to get the stock when the brokerage closed and only recently learned it had been sent to the comptroller in 1999 and sold in 2010 for $2,804.18.
* Rep. Yvette Clarke had not filed her disclosure report by the May 16 deadline, and Rep. Edolphus Towns’ report was filed late and not publicly available last week.