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Friday, February 17, 2017
Vol. 5, No. 7
GUIDE TO SPECIAL OCCASIONS
REMEMBERING HERO SON
GOP TARGETS SUOZZI IN 2018
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Ex town aide tied to alleged Terry front
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Helped create corp. ID’d in indictment, denies role in alleged hiding of income BY N O A H M A N S K A R Jonathan P. Fielding, a Town of North Hempstead zoning oďŹƒcial until this week, helped Gerard Terry, an indicted Democratic political operative, create a company that Terry allegedly used as a front to hide income from the Internal Revenue Service, documents show. Fielding, who was secretary to the Board of Zoning Appeals, no longer worked for the town as of Tuesday, a town spokeswoman said. He indicated that he had been forced out. Fielding’s departure coincided with questions posed by Blank Slate Media to the town about his relationship to Terry’s company. It also comes two weeks after Terry, the former North Hempstead Democratic Committee chairman who worked as the zoning board’s attorney, was arrested on federal tax evasion charges for allegedly failing to pay nearly $1 million in income taxes.
Fielding in 2010 ďŹ led documents to incorporate a company, Neville Warwick LLC, that a federal indictment says Terry used to hide income from IRS tax collectors. State corporation records list Fielding as the recipient of correspondence for the company and list as its address a Mineola law ofďŹ ce where he has practiced. But Fielding’s role did not extend beyond preparing documents to organize the company, and he did not know for what purpose it would be used, he said in an interview. “I’ve never seen a bank statement or any other corporate minutes or anything else, or any other documents related to the LLC, since that organization seven years ago,â€? Fielding said. Terry and Fielding have a professional relationship that goes back to at least September 2008, when they served as Manorhaven’s Continued on Page 52
PHOTO BY KATIE SABBATINO/THE LITTLE SATURDAYS PHOTOGRAPHY
Mark Sabbatino, age 3, in the front yard of his Manhasset home.
H.S. considers testing changes to alleviate stress BY M A X Z A H N In response to a spike in student and parent complaints, Manhasset School Superintendent Charles Cardillo and Manhasset High School Principal Dean Schlanger are considering changes to the way high
school course testing is done at the middle and end of each semester. “Schlanger and I have had extended discussion on this,� Cardillo said. “We should be taking a close look at it and see what it takes. How can we improve on this?�
Currently at the end of each quarter teachers conduct a cumulative subject exam during a designated week of testing. The class schedule during that week is no dierent than any other, but the school staggers testing to ensure that stuContinued on Page 21
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