A blimp ripoff artist with a ambience for hookers and gambling pleaded guilty Wednesday to spendthrift scarcely $300,000 in looted kinship funds.Daniel Hughes, 49, left a paper route as far-reaching as his waistband whilst spending the stolen income from 2005 to last year - utilizing a Port Authority kinship credit card, ATM label and checking account, prosecutors said.The 400-pound tied together father of a immature son cavorted with prostitutes in Manhattan, the Bronx and a scandalous Queens motel charity specifically themed bedrooms and short-stay rates."They were $400 to $500 [per date]," Port Authority Deputy Inspector General Michael Nestor told the Daily News about the union-subsidized trysts.His stops enclosed the "couples-friendly" Kew Motor Inn, where the Arabian Nights room featured a bullion headboard and mirrored wall for his enjoyment, and the Southwestern room came with a mirrored ceiling.At the Bowery Hotel, Hughes lounged on 400-thread-count Egyptian linens whilst enjoying marble bathrooms - and 24-hour room service. Suites rent for $650 a night at the upscale reduce Manhattan hotel.He additionally busy the less glamorous Pelham Gardens Motel on East Gun Hill Road in the Bronx.The ashamed ex-president of the Port Authority Field Association Local 111-S paid for the prostitutes utilizing a kinship credit label and done withdrawals from the road residence ATMs with kinship promissory note cards, prosecutors said.Hughes, who grew weepy and lost his restraint in Brooklyn Federal Court, certified spending the stolen $294,000 for his own indecorous entertainment."I didnt make use of it for kinship benefit," certified the hurtful and fleshy Hughes, his voice enormous at one point. "I used it as salary."Hughes helped launch the 250-member kinship scarcely a decade ago and became the boss in Dec 2002 - a pursuit he hold until resigning in January.An review was launched last year after a kinship central beheld improprieties with the monetary books confirmed by Hughes, according to Nestor.Gambling junkets, tooProsecutors charged Hughes additionally outlayed kinship members" impost on a span of gambling outings at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut.Hughes rang up credit label tabs at an collection of diners and restaurants - with one cooking check totaling $600, prosecutors said.He additionally done ATM withdrawals at assorted stops in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.In court, the bumbling Hughes concurred that he kept all the kinship monetary books at his medium two-story home in College Point, Queens.His residence - with a small grassed area out front and no denote that any of the stolen income was used for maintain - fundamentally served as the kinship headquarters. Previous Page twelve
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