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Vol. 56 No. 42
october 14 - 20, 2021
O’side NBC producer looks back at career time came for her to go off to college, the decision to head to California was a tough one.“It was Oceanside native Joanne hard for me to leave,” she said. “I LaMarca recently stepped down couldn’t imagine really going to from her role as executive pro- California, but I just wanted this ducer of the fourth hour of spectacular life.” NBC’s “Today” show In the end, she with Hoda Kotb and wound up staying. Jenna Bush Hager to LaMarca began spend more time as a fashion major at with family. She SUNY Oneonta. might return to TV “When you grow up some day, but right on Long Island, it’s now she’s content, always all about she says, and what a fashion, but then my ride it’s been at one horizons broadof TV’s iconic news ened,” she said. shows. In her second LaMarca, 58, year, she shifted her Courtesy Joanne LaMarca grew up in Oceans- oceaNsIde NatIVe studies away from ide and graduated JoaNNe LaMarca has fashion toward telefrom Oceanside vision production. “I spent much of her High School in 1982. believe in exploring She now lives in career as a producer all of your interests. of NBC’s “Today” show. I took classes in Montclair, N.J. LaMarca recently everything I was had a reunion party interested in, and I with her NBC colleagues and ended up studying television and friends. I ended up loving it,” she said. “I “I lived in Oceanside from the was in classes where we would time I was about 4, and I was a spend six hours to nine hours a big Cher fan and that opened up day in studios, and I would never this Hollywood world for me, and look at the clock. When you do I thought one day I would move what you love, it’s never work, to Hollywood,” LaMarca said. and I thought this must be what I She grew up in a close-knit Jewish-Italian family. When the Continued on page 15
by KePherd daNIel kdaniel@liherald.com
Tom Carrozza/Herald
FbI ageNts receNtly entered No Limits Auto Body in Island Park. They were there in connection with the arrest of former NYPD officer Michael Perri on alleged bribery charges, according to a person with direct knowledge of the case.
FBI, NYPD bribery probe leads to Island Park business
by tom carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
FBI agents entered the No Limits Auto Body on Austin Boulevard in Island Park Oct. 1. A person with direct knowledge of the case said the agents were at the shop in connection with the arrest that day of former NYPD officer Michael Perri, 32, of East Islip, on bribery charges. Peri retired from the NYPD in 2020. The FBI and New York Police Department jointly conducted an investigation into the case. It was unclear at press time what, if any, Perri’s
relationship to No Limits Auto Body might be. Asked by phone on Monday about the FBI’s presence at the shop, a man there said, “Yeah, we have no comment on that.” In the alleged bribery scheme, which began in May 2020, 107th Precinct officers James Davneiro, 42, of Bayside, and Giancarlo Osma, 39, of Deer Park, directed dama g ed vehicles to an unnamed towing and auto body shop operated by Perri, instead of using the NYPD’s Directed Accident Response Program, according to a federal Department of Justice news release. The program
requires officers to identify appropriate licensed towing and repair businesses to respond to automobile accident scenes and remove damaged vehicles. Perri is alleged to have paid Davneiro and Osma thousands of dollars in cash bribes to steer the removal and repair of damaged vehicles to the business in question, the DOJ said. An indictment of Perri, Davneiro and Osma was unselaed Oct. 1. If convicted, they would face up to five years in prison. “As alleged in the indictment, these defendants disContinued on page 15