Spin Cycle

Hank Morris, 54, has a local pedigree. He's gained undoubtedly-unwanted notoriety for fees under investigation involving state pension business at a time when his close ally Alan Hevesi was state comptroller and sole trustee of that giant fund. One reflection of his past Democratic involvements in Nassau: Tom DiNapoli's failed run for county executive, which was the same year as Hevesi's failed run for mayor. If there proves to have been wrongdoing anywhere in the pension investment process -- and Hevesi's lawyer has strenuously denied it -- that figures to be more serious than Hevesi's misuse of state resources, to which the Forest Hills Democrat pleaded late last year. An updated profile on what we know of Morris and his role is here.