Mel Miller

He also taught at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Upon being convicted on 8 out of 19 felony charges in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, he lost the speakership on December 13, 1991[3] and was replaced by majority leader James R. Tallon as acting speaker until the election of Saul Weprin to the speakership on December 16, 1991.

[4] In the case, which did not involve his work in government, Miller and his Assembly aide and onetime law partner, Jay Adolf, were charged with cheating legal clients out of some of the profits from investments in cooperative apartments.

The jury convicted each defendant of six charges of fraud, one of conspiracy and one of using an assumed name, all involving one scheme to secretly buy and resell eight apartments in a Brooklyn building.

[6] He was widely recognized as an authority on public finance and the state budgetary process, and as one of the founders of Bolton St Johns, he served as senior consultant to the firm.