Carl Paladino Campaign Staffer Is Child Porn Felon

The New York Post reports:

Congressional candidate Carl Paladino has a convicted sex offender on his company payroll who also now works as “assistant treasurer” of his campaign, The Post has learned.

Joel Sartori was controller of Ellicott Development when he was busted in 2013 for accessing child porn on a company computer. Sartori was convicted of two felonies — possessing and promoting kiddie porn — and sentenced to 10 years’ probation in 2017, court records show.

Sartori, 63, is listed in the state’s Sex Offender Registry Level 2 with a mugshot. “Joel has been with me for ages. He served his punishment for what he did. He’s a wonderful employee,” Paladino told The Post Wednesday.

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Paladino earned national headlines last month when unearthed audio showed him effusively praising Hitler’s leadership.

Days later he denied and then later admitted posting a statement that called recent mass shootings “false flags.”

Longtime JMG readers will recall Paladino for his viciously anti-LGBTQ statements during his failed 2010 run for New York governor.

In a 2010 interview with an upstate newspaper, Paladino called Michelle Obama a male gorilla who should be “released to live in a cave in the outback of Zimbabwe.”

In the same interview he suggested that President Obama might die of mad cow disease because he’d been having sex with cows.

Around the same time Paladino was exposed for forwarding racist cartoons that included depictions of bestiality.