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Friday, October 28, 2022
Vol. 71, No. 43
N E W H Y D E PA R K
Guide l Section • October 28,
A Blank Slate Media Specia
2022
GUIDE TO 2022 TOWN DEMS OFFER ELECTIONS OWN BUDGET
BE WARY ON HALLOWEEN
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E.W. lawyer charged in Jan. 6 insurrection
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Ex-school board member O’Kelly center of Blank Slate Media letter controversy BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Nassau attorney and former East Williston school board trustee John O’Kelly was arrested Thursday for his actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to the federal prosecutors. O’Kelly, 66, is charged with felony charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers and interfering with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder, along with related misdemeanor offenses, officials said. The Long Island Federal Defenders Office, which represented O’Kelly during his arraignment, did not immediately return a request for comment from Blank Slate Media. O’Kelly previously had a controversial letter published in Blank Slate Media’s six newspapers following the election of former President Donald Trump which was viewed by many as antisemitic. The letter, published in December 2016, lauded Trump’s victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton despite the efforts of “anti-Christian, anti-U.S. globalists, led by George Soros.” O’Kelly described Soros as a “Rothschild banker,” referencing the notable European Jewish banking family that many conspiracy theorists and antise-
mitic groups claim controls the world’s governments. The attorney went on to say that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Christianity and nationalism clash “with the bankers’ plan for an international, atheistic, totalitarian world order.” He said both leaders strive to achieve “peace and prosperity” compared to “the bankers want[ing] war and debt.” He also claimed Soros was “an agent of the international bankers” and called for him to be “charged, arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned for his actions, including his funding of Black Lives Matter and Move-On.Org.” O’Kelly said Soros put President Barack Obama in the White House, calling the former commander-in-chief “another anti-Christian, anti-American globalist.” Blank Slate Media Editor and Publisher Steven Blank apologized for publishing O’Kelly’s letter, which prompted the company to refrain from running others containing derogatory and offensive language about marginalized groups. Kelly, following the apology, said his criticisms of powerful Jewish figures should not be viewed as insults and that he was opposed to “censorship.” The apology followed decisions by Temple Sinai of Roslyn and the Old Continued on Page 4
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The Village of New Hyde Park held their second annual Halloween parade on Saturday, Oct. 22.
NHP man gets 6-12 years for DWI, injuring cop BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Keith Dillon, a New Hyde Park resident and Coast Guard veteran, was sentenced to 6-12 years in prison last week for a 2018 drunk driv-
ing incident that seriously injured a Nassau County Police officer. Dillon, 34, was intoxicated and impaired by Xanax when he drove his 2014 Dodge Ram onto the center median at 70 miles per hour south-
bound on Glen Cove Road in Greenvale and eventually crashed into an unmarked police car, driven by Nassau Police Officer Willard Gomes early on Jan. 1, 2018, officials said. Continued on Page 47
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