State Housing Commissioner Darryl Towns was arrested on July 3 in Westchester for driving while intoxicated, according to a report in The New York Times.
Towns crashed his car in Westchester County and failed a subsequent field sobriety test. The former Assemblyman was appointed housing commissioner in February by Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was notified of the accident by Towns on the day it occurred, according to The Times.
The accident and arrest come as the Towns family is trying to maintain its influence in Brooklyn politics.
The family is engaged in a fierce contest to keep Darryl’s vacated Assembly seat in the family. His sister, Deidra Towns, is mired in a three-way race against candidates backed by Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Vito Lopez and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, respectively.
That race is seen as a test of strength for Darryl’s father, Congressman Ed Towns, who has represented his district for nearly three decades, but so far has just $50,000 on hand for his next re-election, and could face a primary challenge.
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It must be nice to be politically connected. You get jobs you aren’t qualified for, and while you can’t get away with murder, you can get away this, or at least that’s what it seems like. Good thing he didn’t kill anyone.
I guess all the Press Source were a sleep and they just woke up 21 days later.
But if you are going to “LEAK” the NYT is it
I wonder how Fred Dicker missed this.
Before there was the “Oracle at Delphi” there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli
VJ Machiavelli
The Legislative Budget is Too Damn High
“How did Fred Dicker miss it”? ‘MISS IT?’ Get real…
The incident occurred July 3rd, the court appearance was July 14th, and only NOW we read it in the NYT. Did you really think Fred would expose a negative story about a member of the Cuomo regime? Now, if Mr. Towns worked for the previous administration, this entire incident would’ve been reported from the Accident Scene and in BOLD headlines under the Dicker banner!