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Friday, January 13, 2023
Vol. 72, No. 2
N E W H Y D E PA R K
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
STATE OF TOWN SET
VISCARDI CASINO NIGHT
PAGES 23-30
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Nassau GOP demands that Santos resign Follows filing of complaints by Watchdog group and 2 N.Y. Dems BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z
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Great Neck businessman Robert Zimmerman, the Democratic candidate for Congress who George Santos defeated, calls for Santos to resign outside what Santos asserts is his Queens office.
The Nassau County Republican Committee and local GOP officials called on newly-elected U.S. Rep. George Santos to resign from his position on Wednesday morning. Nassau County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph Cairo, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena, newly-elected state Sen. Jack Martins and newly-elected U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito called on Santos to step down from his position, saying the lies and deceit of his personal and professional background will not allow him to be an effective leader. “He’s disgraced the House of
Representatives and we do not consider him one of our congresspeople,” Cairo said in a press conference. “Today, on behalf of the Nassau County Republican Committee, I am calling for his immediate resignation.” “The lies George Santos told are too numerous to count,” DeSena, who publicly endorsed Santos, said. “He lied to me personally when he sought my endorsement, and while I am offended and disgusted at his deceit, my true concerns are for the residents of the 3rd Congressional District.” “What was really tragic is the fact that there are so many people here in Nassau County that are survivors of the Holocaust,” Blakeman said. “These Continued on Page 42
Residents, parish get wrong tax bills: Dems BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Nassau County Legislature Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (DFreeport) said in a letter to County Executive Bruce Blakeman and acting County Assessor Matthew Cronin that more than 800 property owners were overcharged on their school tax bills. Abrahams also said the Notre
Dame Parish in New Hyde Park was wrongly sent another tax bill for approximately $480,000 for its 2023 general taxes. “These latest concerns about the potential existence of another round of significant errors in Nassau County’s tax bills are being raised just months after 842 property owners were overcharged on their 2022/2023 school
tax bills because the county failed to correctly apply the Taxpayer Protection Plan five-year phase-in to their properties,” Abrahams said in a statement. “We are furthermore distressed by initial evidence and analysis which indicates that this same error may have occurred on the general tax bills of those same 842 homeowners.” A previous error in October led to
the parish being wrongly sent a bill for $676,634 in school taxes, according to county records. The initial Nassau Assessment Department error led to a $16.7 million assessmenton the taxexempt property. North Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman said in a letter to Cronin that the full tax exemption was again not applied.
“Similar to my explanation in my letter of October 26, 2022 regarding the 2022-2023 School Tax Warrant, it appears that this property appeared on the 2023 General Tax Warrant because the county failed to apply a full property tax exemption that the above-referenced property appears to qualify for,” Berman said in his letter to the county. Continued on Page 43
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