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BEINER AUDI A FAMILY TRADITION
PHILLIPS MAILER RAISES EYEBROWS
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Roslyn man admits to false tax filing
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Bruce Bendell and brother plead guilty to fraudulent 2009 return BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A Roslyn man and his brother pleaded guilty in federal court in Central Islip on Thursday to filing a false corporate tax return for the 2009 fiscal year, underreporting income and inflating expenses to avoid paying the correct amount, U.S. Department of Justice officials said. Bruce Bendell, 64, of Roslyn, and Harold Bendell, 69, of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., were owners of Major World, an auto dealership formally known as Major Automotive Companies Inc., of Long Island City. “By their pleas, Harold and Bruce Bendell admitted that they concealed millions of dollars of their company’s income and avoided paying their fair share of taxes to the United States government,” U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said in a statement. “This Office and our law enforcement partners
will continue to work together to ensure that individuals who attempt to evade their responsibilities as taxpayers are held responsible.” The U.S. attorney’s office said that on Aug. 10, 2010, Bruce and Harold Bendell filed a corporate tax return form that failed to report approximately $1,417,814 in gross receipts and approximately $2,116,000 in cash payroll expenses for which Major Automotive did not pay payroll taxes. Prior to their guilty pleas, the Bendells paid over $3,888,267 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and resigned from Major World. “This great country of ours relies on a tax system based on voluntary compliance,” IRS-CI Special Agent-in-Charge James Robnett said in a statement. “Harold and Bruce Bendell took unlawful advantage of the system that financially impacts all Americans. Continued on Page 99
PHOTO COURTESY OF MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARMOR
Nassau County Legislator Arnold Drucker, third from left, talks with reenactors during the Museum of American Armor program celebrating the 70th anniversary of desegregation in the military. See story on page 22.
Judge released suspect weeks before murder BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I
two weeks before he is suspected of killing a North Shore University Hospital nurse and kidnapping A Connecticut man who was a woman in Los Angeles. Danueal Drayton, 27, of charged with strangling an exgirlfriend was released without New Haven, Connecticut, was bail by a Nassau County judge arrested in Nassau County on
June 30 for allegedly choking his ex-girlfriend, who survived, and charged with felony second-degree strangulation and third-degree trespassing,#Nassau County court records show. Continued on Page 109
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