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Skelos’s Son to Boss: Why Should I Work When Dad’s a Bigshot?

By MARK TOOR
Posted 7/27/15

A new indictment released last week in the Dean Skelos & Son corruption case shows the former State Senate Republican Leader coming to Adam Skelos’s defense after the young man threatened a supervisor who called him on his failure to show up for work.

The superseding indictment, which was made public July 21, depicts a spoiled young man dependent on his powerful father for support. Dean Skelos “used the power and influence of his official position to obtain and attempt to obtain income for Adam Skelos,” it charged.

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