The real celebrity in the SEC’s fraud case against Kenneth I. Starr, an investment and tax adviser, is Andrew Stein.

Anne Coulter's Ex and for long time New Yorkers, the real celebrity in the SEC’s fraud case against Kenneth I. Starr, an investment and tax adviser, is Andrew Stein. (adfoxie)

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Ed Koch and Andrew Stein

Stein is the former president of the New York City Council and New York State assemblyman, who is described as an “associate” who received money from Starr’s alleged scheme to defraud his clients, which included a slew of Hollywood stars.

Stein was charged with making false statements to the Internal Revenue Service and for using a company he created through Starr to cover huge “personal expenses,” including hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit card bills.

Over the years, Stein has been known as much for his politics and ubiquitous political TV advertisements, as he has been for providing fodder for Page Six of the New York Post for decades .

A Democrat, he dated conservative commentator Anne Coulter, though the couple split up in 2008, according to New York Magazine. Stein told the New York Post that they broke up because of “irreconcilable differences.”

Stein is the son of wealthy publisher Jerry Finkelstein, who owns The Hill, the Congressional news site, according to Politico.

His father played a big role in Stein’s political life, helping bankroll and advise his son’s unsuccessful run against Mayor David Dinkins in 1994.

Stein, who changed his name from Finkelstein, began his political career in 1968 when he was elected to the New York Assembly.

In an email to a Wall Street Journal reporter last summer , Stein described himself “as a liberal on domestic and social issues but conservative on terrorist and foreign policy issues.”

More recently, Stein was in the news for his involvement in New York state pension scandal. He was never charged with any wrong doing.

Stein, while working for the “consulting” firm Arapaho Partners, was paid $1.5 million by Carlyle Europe Partners for helping the Carlyle Group win a $133.7 million deal with the pension fund in 2003.