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Pol’s only bills are ones taxpayers get

  • Last Updated: 9:48 AM, July 3, 2012
  • Posted: 1:03 AM, July 3, 2012

ALBANY — Indicted state Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. didn’t introduce a single bill last year while billing taxpayers for more per-diem travel expenses than most of his colleagues.

Even with the three dead-end bills Boyland sponsored this year after vowing an aggressive agenda, his was the lowest legislative output in the 2011-12 session, according to a report released yesterday.

The Brooklyn Democrat also missed 280 legislative votes this year, more than all but four of his Assembly colleagues — three of whom were running for Congress — and more than a quarter of all votes, the New York Public Interest Research Group report found.

Gregory P. Mango
State Assembly member William Boyland, Jr.

“It’s certainly possible he was just lazy,” said NYPIRG report author Bill Mahoney.

Meanwhile Boyland claimed $17,606 in taxpayer-financed per-diem payments, on top of his $79,500 salary, for attending legislative sessions and for trips outside his district — more than that claimed by 131 of the Assembly’s 150 members, state Comptroller’s Office records show.

Boyland did not return calls yesterday.

But after his Jan. 4 arraignment in Brooklyn federal court on charges of soliciting more than $250,000 in bribes in exchange for fast-tracking development projects, Boyland declared, “We’re going to be introducing 15 new pieces of legislation — that’s the job.”

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