July 22, 2009
Taxpayer funded ‘man cave’ at N.Y. Capitol
Authorities said a pair of New York state employees are accused of creating a man cave
at the Capitol Building complete with a TV and marijuana scales.
A spokesman for the state Inspector General Joseph Fisch said Louis Marciano, 50, a supervisor with the state Office of General Services, and Gary Pivoda, a cleaner who works under him, allegedly used taxpayer dollars to transform a maintenance area in a Capitol garage facility into a man cave
with a TV, board games, DVDs, couches, rolling papers and marijuana scales, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
The two men are suspended without pay and Pivoda is charged with marijuana possession and criminal use of drug paraphernalia. Pivoda allegedly used his OGS truck to make marijuana deliveries to other state employees, the newspaper said.