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Friday, September 14, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 37
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AMERICAN LEGION STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL GUIDE TO STREET FAIRS CELEBRATES 90 YEARS INVESTIGATING DIOCESES PAGES 35-62
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$100K salaries, patronage at election board
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Dems, GOP split high salaries, nearly 200 jobs based on party affiliation BY R E B ECC A K L A R Nearly two months after his shocking loss to a Democrat, and just two days shy of the end of his term, Anthony Santino resigned as Hempstead town supervisor upon his appointment to the Nassau County Board of Elections. Democrat Robert Troiano, a former senior policy adviser to North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s pick for traffic and parking violations commissioner, was appointed to a position at the Board of Elections after it was discovered that he had racked up more than $80,000 in federal income tax liens. Former North Hempstead Democratic Party Chairman Gerard Terry, currently serving time for state tax fraud, also had a job at the county agency before stepping down when he faced charges. It was one of six politically appointed taxpayer-funded jobs Ter-
ry once simultaneously held. Appointing fallen political players to jobs at the Board of Elections isn’t uncommon. The board is the only agency intentionally and legally set up to be a patronage organization – “whether we like it or not,” according to Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University. “You know the expression that politics is like sausage making and you don’t want to spend a lot" of time looking at what goes on in the kitchen,” Levy said. " “This is the ultimate example of sausage making in politics. It’s also one of the legal ones.” Nearly 80 percent of last year’s county Board of Elections budget went toward salaries, wages and fees, with the commissioners of both major parties getting paid more than $180,000 in taxpayer funds for the politically appointed Continued on Page 80
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Members of the Port Washington Fire Department attend the Town of North Hempstead 9/11 memorial service. See story on page 2.
Munsey Park evades cell node and lawsuit BY T E R I W EST
ExteNet Systems Inc. applied to install the node on The Village of Munsey Park Manhasset Woods Road in is no longer getting a new cell January, then sued the village antenna node – or being sued when the board did not adby the company that wanted to dress the application. The company dropped the lawsuit in install it.
late August. “They were not satisfied with the way things were moving,” village Attorney Robert Morici said at a meeting last week, according to Newsday. Continued on Page 81
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