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Friday, June 18, 2021
Vol. 70, No. 25
N E W H Y D E PA R K
GUIDE TO SUMMER
WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN F.P. MOTEL
COUNTY, POLICE AGREE ON CONTRACT, CAMERAS
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Durst first wife had ‘accident’: testimony NHP native’s death focus in Los Angeles murder trial BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z New testimony in the Los Angeles murder trial of Robert Durst alleged that the millionaire had a fight with his first wife, former New Hyde Park resident Kathleen McCormack, which led to an “accident on the stairs” prior to her disappearance in 1982, according to a report by the Daily Beast. Durst, 78, is currently on trial for the alleged murder of his friend Susan Berman. One of Berman’s boarding school friends, Susan Harmon, testified against Durst, claiming
that Berman told her that the millionaire and McCormack got into a fight before she went missing, according to the Daily Beast. “She said that her friend Bobby had had a fight with his wife,” Harmon testified according to the report. “She didn’t know what she was going to do. He’d had a fight, there was an accident on the stairs, and that she had to do something.” In May, the trial resumed after a 14-month recess and featured testimony from Fadwa Najamy, the sister of Gilberte Najamy, who was the last per-
son to see Kathie Durst alive, according to the New York Daily News. Najamy told the jury she heard McCormack on the phone with her real-estate mogul husband speaking calmly, according to the Daily News. But she recognized “it was very clear she was not happy, not content and had something to talk about.” In 2000, Berman was found dead surrounded in a pool of dried blood insider her home in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles. Officials say she had been Continued on Page 35
Hopeful F.P. deli owner recounts racist incident Jiwoong Im says his workers were told to leave U.S. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LAKEVILLE ESTATES CIVIC ASSOCIATION
The Lakeville Estates Civic Association planted flowers to brighten up the neighborhood.
BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI After testifying to the Floral Park Board of Trustees about his intention to launch a Korean deli in the village, the hopeful owner gave an account of a racial confrontation he had experienced prior to the hearing Tuesday night.
Giwoong (James) Im, a Korean American, described to the board and village residents his plans to open a Korean deli and minimarket at 75 Covert Avenue in Floral Park. After the hearing at Village Hall, Im recounted an incident that occurred outside his leased property in which a neighbor told his workers to leave the
country. “He had told my workers to go back to their home country,” Im said in an interview with Blank Slate Media. “When I spoke to the lady [another resident], she was very, very passionate about us not being there, not welcome here.” Im said as soon as he took Continued on Page 47
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