NYP: Congressional candidate Carl Paladino has a convicted sex offender on his company payroll who also now works as “assistant treasurer” of his campaign, The Post has learned.
Joel Sartori was controller of Ellicott Development when he was busted in 2013 for accessing child porn on a company computer.
Sartori was convicted of two felonies — possessing and promoting kiddie porn — and sentenced to 10 years’ probation in 2017, court records show.
Sartori, 63, is listed in the state’s Sex Offender Registry Level 2 with a mugshot.
Paladino confirmed to The Post that he gave Sartori — who’s worked for him for decades — a second chance and kept him on the payroll following his prosecution.
Sartori now serves as assistant controller for Ellicott, the development firm Paladino founded, the candidate said.
Paladino’s registration records for his congressional campaign for upstate District 23 list Sartori as “assistant treasurer” and “custodian of records.”
“Joel has been with me for ages. He served his punishment for what he did. He’s a wonderful employee,” Paladino told The Post Wednesday.
Paladino, the 2010 Republican candidate for governor who campaigned with a baseball bat — and lost to Democrat Andrew Cuomo — said Sartori confessed to everything after getting caught accessing child porn from a company computer. MORE HERE
The GOPe needs to go. They are every bit as bad as democrats.