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Friday, December 21, 2018
Vol. 67, No. 51
N E W H Y D E PA R K
NEW YEAR’S DINING GUIDE
TEACHERS PRESS CONTRACT TALKS
REASSESSMENT HEARING DRAWS A CROWD
PAGES 31-34, 39-42
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F.P. top cop texts revealed
GAME ON!
Part of NYPD corruption trial BY J E D HENDRIXSON Text messages revealed in a New York City police corruption trial suggest that Stephen McAllister, now the Floral Park police commissioner, may have intervened in an arrest as a favor for alleged fixer Jeremy Reichberg. McAllister, then a city police inspector, has not been charged. But federal prosecutors have said he played a role in a conspiracy in which Reichberg traded gifts with police officials in return for favors, according to The New York Times. McAllister has denied any wrongdoing. In 10 pages of text messages, McAllister is shown asking Reichberg, a Brooklyn businessman, for price estimates on items like watches, jewelry and concert tickets to see Billy Joel and Luke Bryan. McAllister had been previously investigated and cleared by the Village of Floral Park of any wrongdoing. Continued on Page 59
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
New York Islanders captain Anders Lee (right) looks on as teammate Johnny Boychuk plays Connect Four with 8year-old Phineas Cullen at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. See story on page 4.
Gillen shreds Clavin over mailers Hempstead Supervisor targets Receiver of Taxers in continued effort to cut costs BY J E D HENDRIXSON Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen has taken aim at a new financial issue in the town, calling out Receiver of Taxes Don Clavin over mailings.
Over the last year, the town has saved over $900,000 on mailings and postage, Gillen said last Thursday at a news conference. The prior town administration, led by former Supervisor Anthony Santino, budgeted $2.9 million in 2018 for mailings. Gillen pointed out that she has spent under $120,000 on mailings this year, while Santino spent $690,000. She commended most other elected officials
including the Town Board’s members and Clerk Sylvia Cabana for cutting costs, but took issue with Clavin’s office. “The only elected official in the Town of Hempstead who has spent more than what was spent last year and who has spent more than every other elected official in the town is our receiver of taxes,” Gillen said. “He has spent more this year than every other elected official combined.”" Clavin’s office has spent
$334,000 on mailings this year and spent $333,000 last year, according to Gillen’s office. After Gillen voted to deny a $55,000 mailing by Clavin’s office to a quarter of a million homes in the town last Tuesday night, the Town Board voted on an “emergency resolution to strip the Supervisor’s office of its authority to monitor and control mail expenditures,” Gillen said. Gillen nonchalantly presentContinued on Page 69
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