Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver skipped former Assemblyman Vito Lopez’s funeral Saturday morning.
Public officials, including then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, cozied up to the onetime Brooklyn Democratic Party boss when they needed his endorsement or political favors, but only a handful of lower-level pols were seen among the 300 mourners at Our Lady of the Rosary Pompeii in Williamsburg.
Lopez, who died Monday at age 74, was stained in his final years by an array of scandals, including accusations that he groped and harassed several female staffers.
But loyalists defended Lopez in their eulogies and blamed the press for his troubles.
“What a disgrace. None of these editorials told the truth of the Vito Lopez I knew and loved,” said state Court Officers Association head Dennis Quirk.