NEW YORK: Yet Another State Senate Democrat Arrested For Finance Scam

It never ends for New York's insanely corrupt Senate Democrats. Sen. Shirley Huntley (Queens) has been hauled away in handcuffs.

State Sen. Shirley Huntley was arrested this morning and pleaded not guilty to charges that she allegedly funneled taxpayer money through her Queens non-profit program. Huntley and several other defendants did not speak during their initial appearance in a Mineola courtroom. They were all released on their own recognizance and ordered back to court on Sept. 14. Outside court, Huntley repeatedly said “It’s a great day” to every question fired at her. The Post first reported last year how Huntley, a who represents Jamaica, Laurelton and South Ozone Park, tried to direct $155,000 to her Parent Workshop nonprofit. She’s been charged with conspiracy in the fifth degree, tampering with evidence and falsifying business records. Prosecutors will claim that Huntley and other defendants falsified papers, making it appear that Parent Workshop performed services stated in the contract, when no such services were ever performed, sources said.

You may recall that Huntley once famously declared about New York's marriage equality bill: "If they gave me a million dollars, tax free, I just wouldn't vote for it." During her successful 2010 reelection bid, Huntley claimed that gay activists were harassing her with death threats and that she'd received a funeral bouquet at her home. Those claims were never substantiated, but Huntley used the supposed threats in her campaign materials. Huntley abruptly changed her mind and did vote for the marriage bill once all the other Democrats (except Sen. Ruben Diaz) fell in line.

Huntley is the fourth New York Senate Democrat to be arrested in the last couple of years. Closet case Carl Kruger is now serving a seven year prison sentence for a bribery and corruption scam he ran with his gynecologist boyfriend. Hiram Monserrate was expelled from the Senate in 2009 after being convicted of charged with slashing his girlfriend's face with a broken glass and he will be sentenced next month after being convicted of ripping off the state to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In May of this year, Pedro Espada was convicted of stealing more than $500,000 from the federally funded health agency he managed. He remains free while facing retrial on other charges which deadlocked the first jury.