Peter King doing well after successful cancer surgery

By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@liherald.com

Peter King says there’s only one way you can bring him down, and it involves a bus, and a curb to step off of.

The former congressman and Herald Community Newspapers columnist says he’s in good spirits after surgery last week that removed a malignant cancerous tumor from the wall of his stomach.

“Doctors are confident the operation was successful,” King wrote on Twitter soon after the procedure. “All cancer has been removed, and no radiation.”

The surgery was performed by Dr. Matthew Weiss at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, King said, expressing gratitude to Weiss and the entire medical staff at Northwell Health. He even vowed to call in to his regular radio show on 77WABC from his hospital bed with host Sid Rosenberg.

“Even in my weakened state, I will be ready to debate and discuss the issues of the day with Sid,” said King, who accompanied the tweet with a picture of him smiling from his hospital bed. “Be sure to listen!”

King served in the U.S. House representing a large part of Nassau County between 1993 and his retirement in 2021. During that time, he chaired the House Homeland Security Committee. Before

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that, he spent more than a decade as Nassau’s comptroller.

In his most recent column published across some 18 editions of Herald Community Newspapers, King called for those who leak military secrets— like those alleged to have happened with U.S. Air Guardsman Jack Teixeira — should face “severe consequences.”

“Bottom line: I’m back in good health,” King said. “All that can screw it up is if I walk off the curb and get hit by a bus.”

Crime watCh

■ Frandy Vasquez, 22, of Levittown, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting from BJ’s Wholesale Club on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown on February 14.

■ Michelle Melisaratos, 46, from Bellmore, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting from Walmart on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow on April 21.

■ Christopher Gallagher, 54, of Want - agh, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting from Wantagh Park on April 24.

■ Augusto Pozu Pachecho, 38, from Jackson Heights, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting from Macy’s at the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa on April 24.

■ Robert Ditizio, 56, of Syosset, was arrested at the intersection of Wantagh Avenue and Merrick Road in Wantagh for alleged DWI on April 21.

People named in Crime Watch items as having been arrested and charged with violations or crimes are only suspected of committing those acts of which they are accused. They are all presumed to be innocent of those charges until and unless found guilty in a court of law.