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GEORGE WASHINGTON COUNTY HAS FISCAL IN ROSLYN, L.I. CRISIS: SCHNIRMAN
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Roslyn biz afraid to fire Adam Skelos CEO testifies he did not want to upset his father, ex Senate majority leader BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Anthony Bonomo, the former CEO of Roslyn-based! Physicians’ Reciprocal! Insurers, testified on Monday that he was afraid to fire Adam Skelos, the son of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre). “I just didn’t want to have a problem with the senator,” Bonomo said, according to a report by Newsday. His testimony was part of the second week of the retrial of Dean and Adam Skelos at a courthouse in Manhattan. Earlier in the trial, another employee at Physicians’ Reciprocal!Insurers said that Adam Skelos threatened to “smash [his] [expletive] head in” after he confronted Skelos about not coming into the office. Adam Skelos was paid an annual salary of $78,000 even though he did not have a license to
sell insurance. The two Skelos men are again facing charges that Dean Skelos used his power in Albany to secure jobs and fees worth $300,000 for Adam Skelos from Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers, New Hyde Park real estate developer Glenwood Management and Arizona-based environmental technology firm AbTech Industries. The father and son were convicted on corruption charges in 2015, but the conviction was overturned last September by a federal appeals court, citing a U.S. Supreme Court case involving former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which narrowed the definition of an “official act” and what constitutes corruption. That ruling by the Supreme Court was also used to overturn the corruption conviction of!Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Continued on Page 114
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARK SCHOEN
My Father’s Place had its grand reopening last weekend with Livingston Taylor performing on Saturday. See more photos on page 26.
My Father’s Place returns to Roslyn BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I
opening of My Father’s Place after more than 30 years. Owner Michael “Eppy” EpMusic lovers who pined for stein has been looking to rebuild rock ’n’ roll to return to the North his former hot spot since it closed Shore for decades were treated in 1987 and found a home at the last weekend to the grand re- Roslyn Hotel for the 225-seat
supper club focused on drawing anything but cover bands to the newly renovated space, decked in deep blues and bright lights. My Father’s Place General Manager Dan Kellachan said he Continued on Page 115
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