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About Shirley Huntley
- Shirley L.
- Huntley (born June 29, 1938) is a former New York State Senator, serving from 2007 to 2012.
- Huntley represented Senate District 10 in Queens County, which included Jamaica, South Jamaica, Springfield Gardens, Laurelton, South Ozone Park, Kew Gardens, Broad Channel, and Lindenwood.
- She pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 2013.Huntley was elected to Community School Board 28 in 1993 and served as its president until the dissolution of the School Board in 2004.
- She was appointed to the Community Education Council for District 28 in June 2004 and was elected as its president in July 2004.A Democrat, Huntley defeated then-State Senator Ada Smith in a Democratic primary in 2006.
- She won the general election that year and took office in 2007.On December 2, 2009, Huntley was one of eight Democratic state senators to vote against same-sex marriage legislation, which failed to pass the Senate.
- In June 2011, Huntley came out in support of gay marriage and voted for the Marriage Equality Act.On March 13, 2011, the New York Post revealed that Huntley was being investigated by the office of the state New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for allegedly running a taxpayer-funded fraudulent charity.On August 25, 2012, Huntley called an emergency press conference at her home in Jamaica, Queens.
- She revealed that she expected to be arrested on Monday August 27 in the state’s continuing investigation into the use of pork-barrel grants by legislators.
- Huntley founded a nonprofit social service and education group that was investigated by the Attorney General Schneiderman, and she funded it in part with state grants.On August 27, 2012, Huntley turned herself into the Nassau County District Attorney's office in Mineola at 7:45 a.m.
- along with her attorney and two dozen supporters, to face a judge later that day at the Mineola courthouse.
- On January 30, 2013, she appeared in Brooklyn federal court and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud for embezzling $87,000 from the Parent Information Network, a Queens non-profit organization.On May 9, 2013, Huntley was sentenced to a year and a day in prison.
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