More recent coverage of stuff possibly involving Peter Abbate's former top staffer --- Joseph Brady

 

Last year, a fracas arose between members of rival upstate biker gangs that triggered a brazen shootout at an underground private lounge in Albany that left a 29-year-old military veteran dead and six others wounded  

Albany Times-Union (ATU) coverage of various other biker crimes in the Albany area provide many leads as to the ongoing criminal activites of Joseph Brady  ---  and the multiple active investigations of those activities by law enforcement authorities  ---  all while Joseph Brady remained a top staff member for Assemblyman Peter Abbate

According to one of the Albany Times-Union's accounts of that event,  a  ".... shooting incident that rocked a neighborhood...  two blocks north of Central Avenue on the edge of West Hill [in Albany] underscored what some law enforcement officials fear could be increasing tensions between a proliferation of biker gangs that have recently formed in the region, and others that have made a resurgence....  There has been a surge in shootings and homicides in Albany over the past two years, but Saturday's melee has cast a spotlight on the intensifying relations in the region's biker underworld.... "  (See "Biker gangs focus of fatal shooting at 'illegal' Albany club" by Brendan Lyons, 10/13/2021, Albany Times-Union/  State      [https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Biker-gangs-focus-of-fatal-shooting-at-illegal-16529730.php]).

The article went on to connect two cases involving Joseph Brady to the string of more recent ongoing mayhem among the areas bikers.

 Longtime legislative director for NYS
Assemblyman Peter J. Abbate Jr.,
at the time he was arrested on charges
of sexually abusing an 18-year-old girl at
his residence, where police said they
recovered drugs and what appeared
to be bomb-making materials

Here are the details of what the ATU article related to Joseph Brady:  

"....  A year ago, the Times Union profiled Joseph Brady, a former longtime legislative director for state Assemblyman Peter J. Abbate Jr., who was the co-founder of a chapter of the biker gang East Coast Syndicate. The Capital Region motorcycle club formed about seven years ago and has drawn the attention of law enforcement for its members' alleged drug use and violence. The group also was the focus of a homicide investigation in Saratoga County, although no one in the club was arrested in connection with that case....  Saratoga County sheriff's investigators acknowledged last year that biker club members [including Joseph Brady] were a focus of an investigation into the disappearance of a Saratoga County biker, Michael P. Ahern [ ] who was last seen on Jan. 6, 2019, nine days before he was reported missing....  In January,  Jack L. Jeffers [ ] pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the disappearance of Ahern. But police and prosecutors never recovered Ahern's remains and, in an extraordinary move, allowed Jeffers to plead guilty without providing any details as to what happened or why he was responsible for the homicide...."  

In another ATU article by Brendan Lyons from earlier in 2021,  it was noted that "....  Saratoga County sheriff's officials [ ] said that Jeffers may not have acted alone — either in causing Ahern's death or disposing of the corpse — and that others associated with the area's biker club network remain a focus of the investigation....  The sheriff said that Ahern was "shot and killed" by Jeffers. The alleged murder weapon was recovered by investigators; Jeffers had possessed the gun illegally, he added....  Despite Jeffers' admission to killing Ahern, he was charged with second-degree manslaughter rather than murder. That charge indicates that Jeffers "recklessly caused the death" of another person but the Saratoga County district attorney's office and police did not specify what triggered the killing....  'The investigation revealed, and he was charged with, having recklessly caused the death of Michael Ahern and that's the charge which was appropriate for the reckless homicide,' said District Attorney Karen A. Heggen, without elaborating...."  (See "Young military member admits role in death of missing Saratoga County biker  --  Jack L. Jeffers pleads guilty to manslaughter, felony weapons possession"  by Brendan Lyons,  1/26/2021, Albany Times-Union/ News   [https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Young-military-veteran-admits-role-in-death-of-15899226.php]).

FYI  ---  Here is an older snapshot of Joseph Brady from 2013 when he was fighting to make professional MMA legal in NYS.