Eric Ulrich, a disgraced former city legislator and construction commissioner who resigned in November following a gambling investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney, now offers different types of policies, those insurance.
“I couldn’t be happier,” Ulrich said in a Dec. 21 email to friends, shared with The Post, about joining Ocean Blue Insurance Agency in the Rockaways as a licensed broker.
“Whether it’s property, commercial, auto or liability protection, I’ve got you covered,” he added.
The former career politician, who received his insurance license last month, told the Post the new line of work was a good step toward “transitioning into the private sector.”
“I have bills to pay, I have a 10-year-old daughter and I need to get on with my life,” Ulrich said. “There is life after public service. There is life after politics.
In early November, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seized Ulrich’s phone and burned it for two hours as part of a criminal gambling investigation, law enforcement sources previously told the Post.
Ulrich had potentially run up debt playing cards at Ozone Park with mob associates, sources said, with the investigation focused on his conduct before serving as construction commissioner.
Ulrich was not charged with a crime, but resigned two days after the inquest was announced.
In 2018, while serving as a city councilman, Ulrich wrote a letter to a federal judge asking for leniency for a reputable Bonanno family associate, who had pleaded guilty to a RICO conspiracy charge.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Ulrich, a Republican, previously represented Queens’ 32nd District on the city council from 2009 to 2021, when he was removed from office.
He joined the Adams administration in January 2022 as a senior adviser to the mayor, before being hired to lead the buildings department in May, at a salary of $243,171 a year.
In April 2021, Ulrich revealed that he was battling alcoholism and planning to get sober.
He also had a history of gambling, reporting winnings on his ethics revelations as a city councilman totaling between $5,000 and $47,999 in 2016 and 2017. He brought back the same range of state lottery winnings from New York every year for 2018, 2019 and 2020.
“I consider myself a lucky guy,” Ulrich previously told The Post. “I had a great job, a beautiful daughter and, occasionally, love at first sight.”
