Two North Country news organizations are reporting that former Assemblyman Chris Ortloff has been arrested in Albany.<\/p>\n
A Federal probe is apparently underway, but no details have been released. Some kind of court hearing is expected today in Albany. <\/p>\n
Here’s what NCPR has been able to learn so far:<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n ORTLOFF ARRESTED SCRIPT<\/u><\/p>\n Two news organizations are reporting this morning that former North Country Assemblyman Chris Ortloff has been arrested in Albany and faces a probe by Federal prosecutors. <\/span> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n WPTZ \u2013 a television news station \u2013 cited information from Assistant US Attorney Thomas Spina (SPEE-na).<\/b><\/p>\n Spina <\/span>said that Ortloff was being held in Albany County Jail and will appear in Federal Court today.<\/b><\/p>\n He wouldn\u2019t disclose the charges. <\/b><\/p>\n According to WPTZ, New York state police searched Ortloff\u2019s home in Plattsburgh last night.<\/b><\/p>\n The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is also reporting this morning that investigators visited a business in Lake Placid and apparently seized a computer. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Neither news organization was able to cite a reason for Ortloff\u2019s arrest, or for the Federal probe. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Ortloff began his career in the North Country as a broadcaster and master of ceremonies for the Lake Placid Winter Olympics.<\/b><\/p>\n He later served as a Republican Assemblyman from Plattsburgh for twenty years and chaired the Clinton County GOP.<\/b><\/p>\n Before leaving office, Governor George Pataki appointed Ortloff to a paid position on the State Board of Parole \u2013 a term that expires in 2012.<\/b><\/p>\n We\u2019ll have more on this story as information becomes available.<\/b><\/p>\n ### ### ### ### ###<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two North Country news organizations are reporting that former Assemblyman Chris Ortloff has been arrested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}