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Town pol arrested, gets fired
THE PHANTOM APPEARS
Ambrosino loses 2 jobs with county BY N O A H M A N S K A R Edward Ambrosino, a Town of Hempstead councilman, was arrested Friday for allegedly pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees owed to his law ďŹ rm and lying on federal tax returns, federal prosecutors said. Ambrosino, a Republican whose district includes the Village of Floral Park and part of New Hyde Park, allegedly deposited more than $800,000 in legal fees from two Nassau County agencies into a corporate account he created rather than his law ďŹ rm’s account, according to the eightcount indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court. He also allegedly made false deductions and understated income on his corporate and federal tax returns, skirting more than $254,000 in taxes over three years, the indictment says. “Today’s indictment is a reminder of the obvious, that public oďŹƒcials are not exempt from payContinued on Page 71
PHOTO COURTESY OF SEWANHAKA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Sewanhaka High School presented the musical “The Phantom of the Opera� by Andrew Lloyd Webber from March 10 to 12. The cast featured senior Louis Santos as The Phantom, junior Jessica Staiano as Christine Daae, senior Peter Boldyrew as Raoul and seniors Pablo Giraldo and Rahul Punj as Andre and Firmin, respectively.
GOP leaders ask Mangano to resign Say Nassau can’t move forward with indicted, ‘distracted’ county exec BY N O A H M A N S K A R Norma Gonsalves, the Nassau County Legislature’s Republican majority leader, introduced County Executive Edward Mangano’s annual State of the County address shortly after 1 p.m. on Monday in the newly renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coli-
seum, a major achievement of oďŹƒce — more than ďŹ ve months after his indictment on federal Mangano’s administration. Gonsalves and other Nassau corruption charges. “We need to lift the cloud that legislators applauded Mangano, also a Republican, as he touted is above our county government,â€? said Legislator the county’s economic growth and Hempstead Councilman Richard Nicolello Hyde ďŹ nancial progress Ambrosino arrested, fired (R-New Park), the Legislain the eight years PAGE 22 ture’s deputy presince he was electsiding oďŹƒcer. “We ed. need to restore But three hours later, Gonsalves and the public’s faith in its elected eight other GOP legislators oďŹƒcials. ‌ We believe that for called for Mangano’s resig- the good of the county, of Nassau nation outside his Mineola County, and the residents that we
serve, that our county executive should step down.� Gonsalves, Nicolello and Legislator Howard Kopel (R-Valley Stream) — the Legislature’s top three Republicans — sent Mangano a letter Monday afternoon asking for his resignation “with great sorrow.� Six other Republican legislators joined their call, but three did not: Rose Marie Walker of Hicksville, the mother of Rob Walker, Mangano’s chief deputy; Vincent Muscarella of West Hempstead; Continued on Page 70
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