Warshaw quit his job last year, making around $800,000 as Chief Operating Officer of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit housing developer and financier that has faced legal action for operating dilapidated buildings and funding subsidiaries that have been accused of lending to predatory mobile home parks.

Molinaro has served in some form of public office, first in Dutchess County, for almost his entire adult life. He lost reelection to Rep. Josh Riley (D-NY) after one term in the House of Representatives in one of the most competitive and expensive races in the country.