Do as I say and not as I do.
GOP Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, known for raging against unlicensed cars and fake paper tags, was forced to explain why she had a British luxury car with questionable tags in her driveway.
Photos of a 2008 Aston Martin Vantage car with Arizona 90-day temporary tags were seen regularly parked in Paladino’s driveway in Whitestone, as first reported by StreetsblogNYC.
The New York lawmaker said the British luxury sports car belonged to her son and spokesman, Thomas Paladino, Jr., but made no other comment.
When contacted by The Post, he claimed the phony plate caper was a misunderstanding and the car has since been properly registered.
“It was a collectible car. It was parked in the driveway at my parent’s house,” Paladino, Jr. said.
“The car was delivered with plates from Arizona. It was a collectible car. It was never a priority to put it on the street. It’s not what it was for. The car has since been registered,” he added.
New York City Council Member Vickie Paladino outside her office in Whitestone, Queens. Stephen Yang
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino issued a statement on Twitter late on Monday.
The transit publication also claimed the tags were fraudulent as the real tags expired in December 2022, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation’s spokesman Bill Lamoreaux.
“Vickie Paladino is a hypocrite. I’m not surprised. She talks about ‘law and order’ and then does whatever she wants,” said former Democrat Councilman Tony Avella, who is running against the incumbent in a rematch in the 19th District in northeast Queens, after she defeated him in 2021.
To add insult to injury, license plates registered to Thomas Paladino Sr., the Council member’s husband, have allegedly accumulated more than $12,000 in unpaid traffic and parking tickets, the report said.
Paladino had a British luxury car with questionable tags in her driveway. courtesy of Streetsblog.
The car belongs to Paladino’s son, Thomas Paladino, Jr. J.C.RiceThe unpaid tickets were mentioned in a lawsuit filed in April against Paladino Sr. in connection with a foreclosure proceeding on the same Paladinos’ home in Whitestone.
The NYC Councilwoman refused to remain quiet in a statement issued late Monday on social media said, “Boy, if only progressives cared about the explosion of third-world style violent crime on illegal mopeds as much as they do a rarely-moved collector car with expired temp tags on a private suburban driveway!”
