Son of NY Senate coup leader Espada gets state job

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York Senate spokesman confirms that the son of a powerful state senator now has a $120,000 job in the chamber.

Now New York magazine online first reported that Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada's son, Pedro G.  spada, now holds the newly created job of Senate liaison between governments.

A spokesman for the Senate's Democratic majority confirmed Tuesday morning that the younger Espada, a former state assemblyman, had been hired by the Senate.

The elder Espada is the dissident who created a June coup in the Senate when he joined a Republican-led coalition, taking the slim majority from his Democrat party in exchange for a lucrative leadership post.

Five weeks later, he returned to the Democrats, giving them the majority again in exchange for another lucrative leadership post.

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