if questions weren't raised LONG before this......

i really and truly don't understand how they can get even this far. i don't

putting his 'tainted' aids aside, HE has some issues of his own damn self, no?

Paladino Has Aides With Tainted Pasts

By MICHAEL BARBARO

As he mounts an outrage-filled campaign for governor of New York, Carl P. Paladino has vowed to forcibly rid Albany of the wayward officials and misbehaving bureaucrats who he says have demeaned state government, promising to “take out the trash.” 

But some of the people whom Mr. Paladino has recruited to run his campaign are plagued by brushes with the law and allegations of misconduct, an examination of public records shows.

His campaign manager failed to pay nearly $53,000 in federal taxes over the last few years, prompting the Internal Revenue Service to take action against him. An aide who frequently drives Mr. Paladino on the campaign trail served jail time in Arizona on charges of drunken driving.

Another adviser has been indicted on charges of stealing more than $1 million from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s re-election bid last year. And Mr. Paladino’s campaign chairwoman left a local government position amid claims that she had steered $1 billion in public money to a politically connected investment manager...................

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John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times; Don Heupel/Associated Press; Yana Paskova for The New York Times; Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times

From left, John F. Haggerty Jr., a political strategist for Carl P. Paladino; Nancy A. Naples, Mr. Paladino's campaign chairwoman; Michael R. Caputo, his campaign manager; and Rus Thompson, a Tea Party organizer who is Mr. Paldino's driver.