GOP attorney-general candidate Dan Donovan slammed his Democratic rival, Eric Schneiderman, yesterday for failing to reveal his potential ties to the corrupt bidding process for the Aqueduct video-slots complex.
Donovan, the Staten Island DA, cited a Post report that revealed one of Schneiderman’s advisers, Maureen DeRosa, is married to Georgio DeRosa, a lobbyist for Aqueduct Entertainment Group.
AEG was mired in scandal after trying unsuccessfully to run slots at Aqueduct.
“I’m asking state Sen. Schneiderman to stop hiding and let the voters of our state know what his involvement here is,” Donovan said.
Schneiderman insisted he had no role in the fiasco, and attacked Donovan’s fund-raising practices.
Meanwhile, two state Senate Democratic leaders implicated in the AEG scandal — John Sampson (D-Brooklyn) and Malcolm Smith (D-Queens) — will be no-shows at the Aqueduct racino groundbreaking today.
