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Friday, June 8, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 23
TOBACCO AGE RAISED TO 21 PAGE 10
More time for Terry
FLOWER HILL LIGHT FIGHT CONTINUES
MANGANO FACES 2nd 2nd TRIAL
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State sentences ex Dem leader BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Former North Hempstead Democratic Party leader Gerard Terry was sentenced to six months in jail and five years on probation for state tax fraud charges on Monday, following his sentencing last week on federal tax fraud charges. PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR Terry, 64, of Roslyn Heights pleaded guilty on Sept. 25, 2017, Two girls enjoy a ride at the Herricks carnival on Saturday afternoon. See more photos on page 20. to criminal tax fraud in the fourth degree – an E-grade felony. In addition,!acting Supreme Court Justice Christopher Quinn ordered Terry to pay $250,000 in restitution to the state Department of Taxation and Finance. This sentence will be served concurrently with his federal one.! Federal Judge Joanna Seybert sentenced Terry to 36 dent of the 7.2-acre Roslyn wouldn’t call it usable,” Roth- functioning.!Malekan officially BY A M E L I A months in prison and three years Country Club until June 2007, stein said. “He ran it like a closed the club in 2008. C A M U R A T I of supervised release for avoidRothstein’s case, which will said he was still heavily in- slumlord. On a holiday weeking paying more than $1.6 milbe heard in Nassau Supreme end, there’d be one staff memvolved as the club began to Former Roslyn Country lion in federal and state taxes. “As a well-connected power Club President Andrew Roth- deteriorate before owner! Ma- ber in the entire facility. I sus- Court on Tuesday, is the fiplayer in Nassau politics, this stein of Roslyn Heights said all nouchehr Malekan, through pect he did that intentionally nal legal step before the town Corona Realty Holdings of to get people to stop going, to could possibly take over the he wants is the club back. Continued on Page 57 Rothstein, who was presi- Mineola,!brought a suit against wear us down. I can’t read Roslyn Country Club property residents in an attempt to minds, I don’t know his moti- — a plot the town has tried to extinguish their rights to vation, but I saw how the club acquire since 2013. “There’s an easement that the club, which was even- was run.” In response, hundreds of everyone in the neighborhood tually thrown out. “The last time it was residents countersued Malekan Continued on Page 58 open was 2006, but I for the club to be open and
Neighbors want pool, club back Roslyn Country Club suit heads to Nassau Supreme Court on Tuesday
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