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Friday, December 11, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 50
HOLIDAY DINING, GIFT GUIDE
PEDESTRIAN STRUCK ON PLANDOME RD.
ELECTION RESULTS CERTIFIED
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A C O AT O F G I V I N G
Late F. Hill mayor named in Trump suit John Walter sued by former tenants for rent fraud BY R O S E W E L D ON The late Flower Hill Mayor John Walter has been named in a case against his cousin, President Donald Trump, as the Trump Organization faces a class-action lawsuit saying that tenants of over 14,000 apartments in Trump-owned buildings across New York City in the 1990s were overcharged on rent. Walter, the son of Fred Trump Sr.’s sister Elizabeth Trump Walter and first cousin to the president, lived in Flower Hill’s Manhasset area for
most of his life and served as mayor of the village from 1988 to 1996. He died in January 2018. The case alleges a longrunning scheme in which a Trump-controlled company, All County Building Supply, artificially increased the cost of appliances and other materials, which led to raised rents. The scheme was first reported in a 2018 New York Times investigative article. Twenty plaintiffs are named, representing a class of victims who formerly were tenants of 30 of the Trump
Organization’s rent-regulated buildings in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island in the 1990s. The buildings were sold in 2004, but the plaintiffs claim that the inflated rents persisted. The suit was filed in New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, and the plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Jerrold S. Parker and Raymond Silverman of Port Washingtonbased Parker Waichman LLP. “This is a massive fraud spanning 28 years, victimizing several hundred thousand Continued on Page 36
94 COVID cases in week in North Shore schools PHOTO COURTESY OF MANHASSET PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Students in the Key Club, National Honor Society and Green Club at Manhasset Secondary School came together to collect for a coat drive to aid the nonprofit Sidewalk Samaritan.
Manhasset on lower end with 21 positive students BY R OB E RT PELAEZ The number of students who have tested positive for the coronavirus in public schools across the North Shore has risen to nearly 350, according to state Health Department figures. As of Tuesday, 340 students
on the North Shore had tested positive since the beginning of the school year. The increase of 94 confirmed student cases is the most over a one-week period since schools began, according to state data. Public school districts that were analyzed included the Port Washington school district, Roslyn school dis-
trict, Sewanhaka Central High School District, Mineola school district, East Williston school district, Floral Park-Bellerose school district, Manhasset school district, New Hyde ParkGarden City Park school district, Herricks school district, North Shore school district and the Great Neck school district. Continued on Page 35
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