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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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