A former state senator from Queens who tampered with evidence to cover up the misuse of state funds will be sentenced to five years probation under the terms of a plea bargain announced yesterday.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, in a joint press release, said Shirley Huntley pleaded guilty to tampering with physical evidence, a felony. Huntley admitted before Supreme Court Justice Norman St. George (See Profile) that while serving in the Senate she set up a sham Nassau County nonprofit organization, Parent Workshop, that funneled nearly $30,000 in pork barrel funds to her niece and an aide.
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