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3rd track sessions in villages NHP, F.P. to offer info BY N O A H M A N S K A R Leaders in two villages will hold informational meetings next Thursday to help residents better understand the Long Island Rail Road’s proposed third track project in advance of oďŹƒcial public hearings later this month. New Hyde Park village oďŹƒcials are to host a Jan. 12 meeting to give residents an overview of the draft environmental study of the project, and to present the village’s analysis of its potential impact on the village. Project oďŹƒcials and other experts are set to visit Floral Park’s South Side Civic Association meeting the same night to answer questions and hear residents’ concerns about the project. The meetings are meant as a primer on the LIRR’s $2 billion plan for residents who may not have parsed the hundreds of pages in the study but want to understand its implications before giving public comment on it, leaders in the villages said. Continued on Page 50
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Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth attended the Joy Fu Seniors’ Holiday Party on Dec. 19 at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park. See story on page 45.
Firms fined for roles in corruption NHP’s Glenwood Management to pay $200K as illegal lobbying penalty B Y N O A H M A N S K A R leaders convicted on corruption for Adam Skelos, the son of the A state ethics commission last Wednesday censured two North Shore companies that admitted they illegally lobbied Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former state legislative
charges last year. The Joint Commission on Public Ethics ďŹ ned Glenwood Management, a New Hyde Park-based real estate ďŹ rm, and Administrators for the Professions, a company aďŹƒliated with Roslyn-based Physicians Reciprocal Insurance, for failing to disclose lobbying activities with Silver, the former Democratic Assembly speaker, and providing jobs
former Republican Senate majority leader. Under settlement agreements with the commission, Glenwood was ďŹ ned $200,000, Administrators for the Professions was ďŹ ned $70,000 and both ďŹ rms acknowledged they used gifts to stay in the good graces of the state’s most powerful legislators, whose immense political inuence could help or hurt the businesses.
“The lawmakers who sought to use their oďŹƒcial positions to secure unwarranted privileges have already been punished; the clients of lobbyists who facilitated these acts and provided those public oďŹƒcers with such special beneďŹ ts are now facing the consequences of their actions,â€? Seth H. Agata, the commission’s executive director, said in a statement Thursday. Glenwood’s and AdministraContinued on Page 50
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