Luis M. Diaz is a former

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member for the 86th district, first elected in 2002 when the

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district was created. He is a Democrat. In 2008, he stepped down as assemblyman to take a community affairs position in the administration of Governor

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. Diaz was appointed Bronx County Clerk for the

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in 2009. He was suspended in 2020 and resigned in 2022, when he pleaded guilty for falsely certifying that an organized-crime defendant had completed his court-mandated

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from a previous sentence. Diaz was born in

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. He moved to the Bronx as a child, attended public schools, and received a B.A. in Political Science from

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. Prior to his election, he served as executive director of Neighborhood Enhancement Training and Services, a nonprofit social service organization in the Bronx. He has five children.

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