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Vol. 125 No. 28
JUlY 7 - 13, 2023
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Visit the White House, but in Brookeville By lAURA lANE llane@liherald.com
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ANgRY coNstitUENts liNEd up outside the federal courthouse in Central Islip to call for U.S. Rep. George Santos’ resignation.
George Santos makes second appearance in federal court By RoKsANA AMid & Will sHEEliNE of the Oyster Bay Herald
At U.S. District Court in Central Islip on June 30, embattled U.S. Rep. George Santos made his second appearance to address a range of criminal charges against him. Looking subdued and meek in a gray suit and bright red tie, Santos addressed Judge Joanna Seybert only twice, in barely audible responses: “Yes, Your Honor.” Ryan Harris, the lead federal prosecutor, told Seybert that the government had 86,000 pages of documents to substantiate its case, and that he had provided them to Joseph Murray, Santos’ attorney. Murray, who said he had
been working closely with the prosecution, asked Seybert for additional time to review the documents, requesting that the next court date be no earlier than the end of August. The judge agreed, and scheduling Santos’ next appearance for Sept. 7. In May, Santos was released on a $500,000 bond and surrendered his passport after he pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making materially false statements to the U.S. House of Representatives. Although he had stated that he would rather face jail time than release the identities of the bond’s co-signers, the court unsealed their identities: Santos’ Continued on page 14
There is a memorable Life magazine photograph of John F. Kennedy Jr., President Kennedy’s son, as a toddler in the Oval Office. Playing inside the desk where his father is working, he peers out after opening a front panel. The history of the desk door dates back to President Franklin Roosevelt, who requested that panels be added to the Resolute Desk, as it is called, to hide his leg braces. Given to President Rutherford B. Hayes by Queen Victoria in November 1880, the Resolute Desk may be the most recognizable pieces of furniture
in the White House, perhaps because of the Kennedy photo. But visitors who tour the real White House, in Washington, are not permitted into the Oval Office, so they have never seen the desk, except in photos. Since last summer, however, they have been able to see an exact replica of it in Brookeville. A life-size reproduction of the White House, which includes the Oval Office, the Situation Room, the Press Room and all of the famed building’s other rooms, is available for tours in the former home of financier E.F. Hutton on the campus of Long Island University. Visitors can have a guided tour of the White House Continued on page 15
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tHE WHitE HoUsE Experience, has walls in the hall leading to the Blue Room that feature portraits of former presidents.