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Thursday, February 27, 2025 ~ Volume 70 ~ Issue Number 13 ~ $1.00
Kennedy Audit Finds $6.8M Fraud in Suffolk Homeless Shelters By Matt Meduri Suffolk County Comptroller John Kennedy (R-Nesconset) and his team have released the findings of their most recent audit: $6.85 million in misappropriated funds between the years 2016 and 2018 at the hands of several homeless shelters across Suffolk. Kennedy explained last Thursday at the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge that seventeen operators misappropriated the near-$7 million by diverting the funds for capital improvements not related to services provided to the homeless population and retroactive salary increases. The $6.85 million makes up just a small percentage of the $107.5 million that the contractors had received. Comptroller Kennedy discuss the housing audit last week in Hauppauge (Credit - Matt Meduri)
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Romaine, Stark Call for Superfund for Grumman in Calverton By Matt Meduri When Grumman was the bread and butter of Long Island’s working class, the company produced military aircraft. The Bethpage facility is credited with the construction of the Apollo lunar module, the first crewed spacecraft to operate exclusively in space and, to date, the only crewed vehicle to land anywhere besides Earth. However, when Grumman ceased its Long Island operations in 1996, it left behind an ecological problem for which Suffolk elected officials and environmental leaders are now sounding the alarm. The Bethpage site was initially cleared for what became Bethpage Community Park, only for multiple layers of chemical drums encased in concrete to have been excavated after what many believe to be decades. Continued on page 15
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A map showing the site of the former Grumman park in Calverton (Inset) - Legislator Stark (Credit - Matt Meduri)