THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, CESSPIT OF SEXUAL ABUSE: Legislative aide charged with sex abuse is fired from Capitol job. “ALBANY — State Assemblyman Peter J. Abbate, Jr., on Monday announced he had terminated his longtime legislative director, Joseph P. Brady, who was arrested over the weekend on charges of sexually abusing an 18-year-old girl at his residence in Watervliet. Brady, 40, who has been associated with a motorcycle gang with ties to the Hells Angels, is accused of sexually assaulting the woman after her 16-year-old boyfriend, who was also staying with Brady, briefly left the residence.”