03.31.09 -
Mom: No one
told me my daughter was choking nearby (
Newsday)
The reason Lisa Raspanti says she took a job at Carousel
Day School last year was so she could be close to her daughter,
Olivia, when she started day care there.
But when Olivia choked on a carrot earlier this month,
Raspanti said no one at the Hicksville school came to get
her, even though she was in a classroom that she estimates
was about six seconds away. Instead, Raspanti said she continued
to work as an assistant teacher while her daughter suffered,
was treated by paramedics and rode to the hospital alone.
more
03.30.09 - DMV cites
bus drivers at Hicksville school (Newsday)
Police and state investigators dispatched by the Nassau
District Attorney's office Friday found that seven out of
ten bus drivers at the Hicksville school where a child choked
last week were not licensed to drive buses, a District Attorney
spokesman said. more
09.16.08 - Gal's
Toxic Visine Tea - Cops to "Dropping" Roomie
(NY Post)
The Long Island woman who poisoned a housemate by putting
eye drops in his iced tea - a dirty trick depicted in the
hit movie "Wedding Crashers" - was sentenced yesterday
to three years' probation for the sickening assault. more
02.19.08 - AG Cuomo
Starts Investigation into 5 LI Districts (Newsday)
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday started an
investigation, parallel to an ongoing federal probe, into
possible financial misconduct at five Long Island school
districts, issuing a subpoena for records at the Hauppauge
law firm of Ingerman Smith, according to a spokesman for
Cuomo and an attorney for the firm. more
02.20.08 - FBI,
IRS get Suffolk Attorney Reich's Records (Newsday)
A housing squabble at a North Bellmore residence escalated
until one tenant poisoned her roommate with eyedrop medication,
causing him to vomit and bleed from his rectum, and then
provoked his two dogs into a fatal fight, Nassau police
said yesterday. more
12.06.07 - Cops:
Housemate Saw Red in Visine Poisoning (Newsday)
A housing squabble at a North Bellmore residence escalated
until one tenant poisoned her roommate with eyedrop medication,
causing him to vomit and bleed from his rectum, and then
provoked his two dogs into a fatal fight, Nassau police
said yesterday. more
11.09.07 - Yale
Alum, Enron Foe Campbell is New U.S. Attorney (Newsday)
Benton Campbell, a boyish looking 41-year-old Yale grad,
returned to his old stamping grounds on Long Island and
in Brooklyn recently when he was named the new U.S. attorney
for the Eastern District. more
10.17.07 - Second
Arrest in Farmingdale Supplement Scheme (Newsday)
A second person has been arrested on charges involving a
dietary supplement that, though it helped boost male sexual
performance in many cases, was not exactly what was advertised,
according to officials. more
9.20.07 - Feds
Crack Down On Stock Lenders (Forbes)
The Feds are moving on their long-promised crackdown on
abuses in the murky world of stock lending. more
5.20.07 - Couple
Indicted on Slavery Charges (Newsday)
The affluent Muttontown couple who were arrested on slavery
charges were formally indicted late yesterday by a federal
grand jury on those charges and additional charges of harboring
illegal residents, according to court documents. more
5.11.07 - Dial 911
for 'roids (Daily News)
The director of a Long Island emergency room surrendered
to police yesterday on charges that he supplied steroids
to friends - making him the latest potential casualty in
the ongoing Albany steroids investigation. more
4.10.07 - Judge Agrees
to Hear Sentence Reduction Motion for Abramoff
(AP)
A federal judge agreed Tuesday to hear a motion seeking
a reduction of the prison sentences for lobbyist Jack Abramoff
and his former business partner. more
02.09.07 - 2 Suspects
Plead Not Guilty in Unrelated Fires (Newsday)
Michael Eisenberg, 17, of Blue Point, pleaded not guilty
to second-degree arson for a Jan. 13 fire prosecutors said
he set. Timmons said Eisenberg lit a discarded Christmas
tree on fire and threw it on the porch of a Blue Point home.
more
02.09.07 - Teen Charged
in Blue Point Arson (Daily News)
A teen faces 25 years in prison after being indicted yesterday
for allegedly using a discarded Christmas tree to torch
a Blue Point home while a family slept inside. The four-count
indictment against Michael Eisenberg in Suffolk County Court
in Riverhead charges the 17-year-old from Blue Point with
setting fire to the home at 78 Namkee Road the night of
Jan.13. more
10.26.06 - Feds: Mob
boss 'cold' killer (New York Daily News)
The murder of a Colombo gangster was "revenge ... served
ice cold" by crime boss Alphonse (Allie Boy) Persico,
a federal prosecutor charged yesterday. William Cutolo,
49, was whacked May 26, 1999, in the culmination of a decade-long
power struggle within the Colombo crime family, Assistant
U.S. Attorney Katya Jestin told a Brooklyn Federal Court
jury. more
10.07.06 - In the Beginning,
There Was Adam: The man who helped bring Abramoff down goes
to prison for his own nefarious deeds. (Village
Voice)
On Monday, Adam Kidan began serving a 70-month sentence
for a bank fraud scheme he cooked up with Jack Abramoff,
the former high-powered Washington lobbyist turned convicted
felon, in buying a fleet of gambling boats from a Florida
business tycoon named Gus Boulis. more
10.07.06 - Quiz Capo
Timing of Attorney Visit (New York Daily News)
Reputed Colombo crime boss Alphonse (Allie Boy) Persico
was sitting in his lawyer's office on the afternoon that
a rival gangster was allegedly murdered on his orders, his
attorney testified yesterday. more
8.16.06 - DA says HSBC
officer lent $2M to fake firms (Newsday)
A former loan officer for HSBC bank in Valley Stream was
arrested yesterday and charged with lending money to phony
companies, knowing that the companies would never repay
their debts, Nassau prosecutors said. more
08.03.06 - Another
Guilty Plea in Floyd Schools Mess (Newsday)
The top business official for William Floyd schools pleaded
guilty yesterday to official misconduct for misspending
federal grant money and faking credentials to help a colleague's
relative get a job - the fourth district administrator to
admit to malfeasance as part of a wide-ranging corruption
probe. more
03.30.06 - Top Lobbyist
in Congress Scandal Is Sentenced (New York Times)
QUOTE OF THE DAY: 'I can only hope that the Almighty and
those I have wronged will forgive my trespasses.' - Jack
Abramoff, before he was sentenced for conspiracy and fraud
in the 2000 takeover of a Florida fleet of gambling boats.
more
03.30.06 - Abramoff
Gets 70 Months in Prison (Newsday)
QUOTE OF THE DAY: 'I can only hope that the Almighty and
those I have wronged will forgive my trespasses.' - Jack
Abramoff, before he was sentenced for conspiracy and fraud
in the 2000 takeover of a Florida fleet of gambling boats.
more
03.24.06 - Abramoff
Gets Call in Boulis Case Murder Suspect's Attorney Wins
OK to Server Subpoena (South Florida Sun - Sentinel)
Fallen super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his former business
partner soon will be subpoenaed by defense attorneys to
give sworn statements in the Konstantinos "Gus"
Boulis murder case. more
10.06.05 - Lohan's
Uncle Nabbed Again (Newsday)
An uncle of actress Lindsay Lohan is in trouble with the
law again, this time for attempting to cover up a previous
charge of fraud by getting a witness in that case to lie,
officials said yesterday. Paul Sullivan, 47, of 3 Pickwick
Dr., Old Bethpage, was arrested by inspectors from the U.S.
Postal Inspection Service yesterday morning on obstruction
of justice charges, growing out of an arrest in June. more
05.17.05 - Millionaires'
Row (New York Law Journal)
MINEOLA - Millionaires are beginning to accumulate at the
Nassau County Correctional Facility. One deep-pocketed inmate
hails from tony Kings Point, another from lush, secluded
Upper Brookville, and a third once lived in the Bahamas.
The trio - whose only association is that they now share
the same East Meadow address - are wards of the U.S. Marshals
Service. more
01.13.05 - Farmingdale
Ex-Mayor Busted (Newsday)
Joseph Trudden, a former mayor of Farmingdale, was arrested
yesterday on felony charges of larceny and submitting false
records to the state comptroller's office during an audit
of village finances. Nassau District Attorney Denis Dillon
said Trudden tried to justify his use of a village credit
card for more than $2,000 in meals and drinks at local restaurants
by falsely claiming they were for government business. more
01.13.05 - Former Mayor
of L.I. Village Charged With Faking Expenses (New
York Times)
A former mayor of a Long Island village, where a state audit
seven months ago reported misspending and shoddy bookkeeping
by officials, was arrested Wednesday on charges that he
misspent public money on meals and drinks, then concocted
fake documents to justify his expenses. more
10.11.04 - Former Feds
Now Work Other Side (New York Daily News)
They spent 48 years combined battling mobsters, killers
and swindlers, but two former federal prosecutors finally
have switched sides and set up a private practice in Mineola.
Robert LaRusso and Joseph Conway left their federal jobs
behind on Oct. 1, and were open for business as LaRusso
& Conway the following Monday. more
