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Weinberg, Fastenberg tied; each eyes legal challenges, recount BY J uST I N e SchOeNBArT Supreme Court Judge Arthur Diamond directed Village of Old Westbury Clerk Ken Callahan on Monday to certify the results of the June 16 village election in compliance with a report issued by the Board of Elections, which declared write-in candidate Leslie Fastenberg and incumbent Andrew Weinberg tied for trustee with 178 votes apiece. Following the July 22 hearing in Diamond’s courtroom, Diamond issued a ruling directing the Board of Elections to complete the recanvass of the election, tabulate the results and certify them. Steve Schlesinger, who serves as Weinberg’s attorney, said counsel for the Board of Elections went to Diamond on Monday following the recanvass and tabulation of results to ask how to move forward, as the Board of Elections does not certify election results. The Board of Elections report
also declared the other two writein candidates, Cory Baker and Marina Chimerine, who ran on the New Voice of Old Westbury slate with Fastenberg, the winners of two trustee seats for the four-year and one-year term, respectively. Baker and Chimerine were sworn in as trustees at Village Hall on Tuesday afternoon. According to village attorney Michael Sahn, Callahan certified the results of the election as per Diamond’s ruling late Tuesday afternoon. In his decision last Friday, Diamond ruled that he had jurisdiction over the election case, which Schlesinger argued against at the July 15 hearing in state Supreme Court. Schlesinger argued the court had no jurisdiction to review the election because his client had already taken office after filing his oath of office on July 7. Diamond ruled that because the election was being reviewed, Continued on Page 51
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Adam Skelos threatened boss: federal prosecutors BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO
to the office. Despite making $78,000 a year plus medical benefits, and About a week after Adam not possessing a license to sell Skelos began working for a insurance, the son of now formedical malpractice insurer in mer state Sen. Majority Leader 2013, his supervisor wanted to Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Cenknow if he’d start showing up tre) had been hired in the com-
pany’s sales and marketing department and worked just one hour in the last four days. Adam Skelos returned the phone call, according to an expanded indictment against the Skeloses filed last Tuesday in Continued on Page 50
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