Vito Lopez, disgraced assemblyman, dead

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Ruth BrownThe Brooklyn PaperVito Lopez, former Williamsburg assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic boss, died on Monday night. He was 74.Lopez was a powerful Democratic boss known for bringing home the bacon for his district, but fell from grace when a state ethics panel stripped him of Assembly seniority in 2012 after it found him guilty of sexually harassing his young female interns — including groping and trying to kiss them, telling them to “dr