Byline: -- Capitol bureau
ALBANY -- Richard Conti will become the Albany chief of staff to Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried next week when Thomas Nitido leaves the job to assume the post of Albany city comptroller.
Nitido, the city's 9th Ward council member, will step into the comptroller's job Wednesday, leaving a 16-year career with Gottfried.
Conti, an Albany gay rights activist, has been with Gottfried's office since 1987, shortly after the New York City assemblyman became chairman of the health committee. Conti, now a senior legislative aide on the health committee staff, also is a City Council member representing the 6th Ward.
