‘TOO BUSY’ Pol: I Forgot About $7,000

Indicted Brooklyn Dem boss Clarence Norman remembered his $13.75 bill for chicken wings, but somehow forgot to tell his campaign treasurer about more than $7,000 in allegedly illegal campaign contributions.
That’s according to Norman’s testimony yesterday in his corruption trial.

Prosecutors showed that in 2000, Norman billed his campaign account for $2.17 worth of toilet paper, $13.75 for the chicken and $42 for envelopes at Staples.

But when it came to telling his campaign treasurer, Carmen Martinez, about thousands in printing bills he got an auto lobbyist to cover, Norman was suddenly “too busy.”

Norman admitted that if he had told Martinez, she would have reported the bills — which exceeded the $3,100 legal limit — to regulators.

Still, Supreme Court Justice Martin Marcus knocked two counts off Norman’s rap sheet.