Scofflaw pols roll right past 6G debt

David Seifman

Inside City Hall

The city's lengthy list of parking scofflaws stretches all the way to City Hall, where at least nine current and former members of the City Council had been sitting on unpaid summonses totaling more than $6,000.

Last week, after getting calls from The Post, a couple paid up.

Leading the pack was freshman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), who ran up a tab of $1,699.50 on 17 summonses, including nine that date back to Sept. 4 and are in judgment, according to the Department of Finance.

A debt of $350 for more than 90 days qualifies a motorist as a scofflaw, so he easily made the cut.

In 13 days, between last Sept. 4 and 17, in the throes of a heated election campaign, Williams received eight summonses totaling $1,096.24 for a missing or expired inspection sticker.

But he continued racking up tickets long after the election. His last, a $115 penalty for blocking a traffic lane, was written on Feb. 12.

Williams says he's going to fight some of the tickets and has entered into a payment plan to settle others.

Former Queens Councilman Eric Gioia expressed surprise when informed that he owed $615.70 on five summonses and was on the verge of being declared a scofflaw.

Gioia said he coincidentally checked his summons record last week and it was clean.

But after being contacted by The Post, Gioia said he looked again and found some overdue summonses written on his old City Council plate. He paid them in full on Thursday.

Lawrence Warden, who left the council in 2002, entered the scofflaw class with $571.63 worth of unpaid summonses between October 2006 and March 2008.

david.seifman@nypost.com