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Friday, October 8, 2021
Vol. 96, No. 41
GUIDE TO MINEOLA STREET FAIR
JACOBS ENDORSES HOCHUL
COUNTY LEGISLATURE OK OKss FEE CUTS, $375 GRANTS
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LACE UP
Bonanno sentenced to 5 years probation Ex-plastic surgeon pleads guilty to possession of pistol BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Former plastic surgeon and Great Neck resident Matthew Bonanno was sentenced to five years of probation in Nassau County last Friday after two county police departments seized a cache of guns, ammunition and other weapons from him in 2019, officials said. Bonanno, 49, pleaded guilty to possessing a 9 mm pistol in July while Nassau County prosecutors dropped
additional charges, including 11 counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees and two charges of criminal possession of a firearm, court records showed. Acting State Supreme Court Justice Terence Murphy sentenced Bonanno to five years of probation on Friday, despite his lawyer Paul Gentile claiming the gun was a “collector’s item,” according to a Newsday report. Gentile has made longstanding claims that his client
is an “avid gun collector” and touted his professional accomplishments. Murphy’s sentencing also included the revoking of Bonanno’s medical license. Bonanno was first indicted in Westchester, where he pleaded not guilty to 53 weapons charges – separate from the ones in Nassau County – in September 2019. Earlier this month, according to multiple reports, Bonanno pleaded guilty to attempted seconddegree criminal possession of a weapon in Westchester. MurContinued on Page 43
Female cadet outlines alleged sexual assault Claims merchant marine supervisor forced her into sex PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT NECK PARK DISTRICT
The Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink has reopened at the Great Neck Park District.
BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z A female cadet from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point alleged that she was sexually assaulted by an engineering supervisor during her Sea Year training in an account submitted to Maritime Legal Aid & Advocacy. The cadet, whose name was
not disclosed in the account, said she was a 19-year-old virgin at the time of the alleged incident when she was assaulted by the 60-year-old supervisor, whose name was also not disclosed. The supervisor who raped her, she said, made derogatory comments to her and other women on the ship. “He was creepy, made ro-
mantic passes at me and made crude and demeaning comments about me in front of other members of the engine department,” the account read. “It was a difficult work environment, to say the least, and not what I had expected Sea Year to be like.” After around 50 days at sea, the ship pulled into a Middle Continued on Page 42
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