Scandal-Plagued Schick Family Hits The Slimelight Again

Haredi honcho Marvin Schick's son Avi collects $213,000 state salary for 8 months after leaving office.

Dave crony collects 'money for nothing'

By TOM TOPOUSIS • NY Post

Gov. Paterson's former economic-development czar, Avi Schick, stepped down from his post at the helm of the Empire State Development Corp. in January -- but, astonishingly, continued to quietly draw his $213,000 annual salary for eight more months, The Post has learned.

Schick, who has close ties to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, managed to hang on to his full salary -- more than what the governor earns -- in return for advising Paterson on lower Manhattan issues, said ESDC spokesman Warner Johnston.

The ESDC revealed Schick's continuing compensation to The Post last week after more than a month of requests, and just days after he was removed from the payroll on Sept. 11 so that he could begin a new job with a law firm that began three days later.

It was unclear on what specific issues Schick advised Paterson.

He could not be reached for comment, and state officials would only say that he was asked to stay on during a leadership change at ESDC over the summer.

Paterson's decision to keep Schick on the payroll comes amid a state hiring freeze and a state budget deficit topping $2 billion.

Schick has remained as chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., a post that has never paid a salary.

Johnston insisted that Schick's salary, which he said included some unused vacation time, was not for his work at the LMDC, which already has a paid president, David Emil.

"Avi's position as LMDC Chairman is unpaid," said Johnston.

"However, he was on payroll for the work he conducted for the governor's office on lower Manhattan issues."

Schick's continuing state salary came as a surprise to some lower Manhattan officials.

"People assumed he wasn't paid because no other LMDC chairman had ever received a salary," said a well-placed lower Manhattan source.

"Total waste of taxpayer money," said another official familiar with Schick's work downtown, where his most significant project was the deconstruction of the Deutsche Bank building -- a project that cost two firefighters their lives and has taken years longer than anticipated.

Schick was appointed to oversee downstate economic development when Eliot Spitzer became governor in 2007.

Several months later, he became Spitzer's point man on lower Manhattan redevelopment, earning a reputation for his combative style.

A former deputy attorney general under then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Schick's hiring by the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal was announced last week.

A brief list of Schick foibles:

1. Marvin's brother sparked the Borough Park riots when he resisted a traffic officer.
2. His nephew defrauded investors out of millions of dollars.
3. A long list of Marvin Schick's rantings, including libeling sociologist Hella Winston.
4. Avi Schick.

Click the Marvin Schick link in the footer to this post for more.

Here's an example of Avi Schick's temper, which he seems to have inherited from his father.

[Hat Tip: Lawrence Reisman..]

Comments

[Levi]

a government employee getting paid for doing nothing. now that's a real shock!!!

[Yosef ben Matitya]

a government employee getting paid for doing nothing. now that's a real shock!!!

actually, r' levi, we are told above that he was no longer an employee! (8 months after leaving office.)
from your reaction, you would be a very diligent person. who knows? may be you 'do' something.
hey, are u a taxpayer?

[CR]

"actually, r' levi, we are told above that he was no longer an employee! (8 months after leaving office.)"

Wow! Capt. Louis Renault rears his head. Again, that is not an uncommon occurrence with well-connected people on the public payroll. These pigs-at-the-trough are pretty strong justification for demanding a much smaller goverment. If you are shocked (SHOCKED!!!) at the waste of public money then reduce the amount of "public money".

[Successful Messiah]

"Here's an example of Avi Schick's temper, which he seems to have inherited from his father."

There is no reference in that article to Schick having a tember.

[mike]

Sorry to disapoint you but the Schicks are not really HAREDI. Middle of the road or even MO is more like it

[jewishwhistleblower]

You forgot that Marvin Schick is close friends with grifter Dina Wein Reis:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/31/news/companies/dina_wein_reis_fraud_trial.fortune/index.htm
(see 2nd page)

Also my posts on Avi Schick -
1)Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Avi Schick, Esq., deputy counsel to NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, part of board that hired pedophile to work with elementary aged Jewish children:

http://www.jewishwhistleblower.blogspot.com/2005/01/avi-schick-esq-deputy-counsel-to-ny.html

2) Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Dispute over Jewish cemetery in Yonkers is settled: The financial winner from this dispute? Those who desecrate Jewish graves.

http://jewishwhistleblower.blogspot.com/2005/01/dispute-over-jewish-cemetery-in.html

[Guillermo DaGoy]

Look at that mug! Disgusting!

[the Monsey Tzadik]

Joe Schick (Marvin's son) who is a good guy says:

"I come from what is probably best described as a moderate charedi background "

http://jschick.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-happens-in-lakewood-doesnt-stay-in.html