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Friday, October 20, 2017
Vol. 5, No. 42
Guide to Roslyn
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Terry pleads guilty to federal tax evasion
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Ex town Democratic party leader dodged paying $992K BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Gerard Terry, the former chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Party, pleaded guilty to tax evasion last Thursday for failing to pay nearly $1 million in federal taxes. Terry faces a maximum of five years imprisonment, a fine of up to $100,000 and mandatory restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, according to the district attorney’s office. Prosecutors said Terry, a lawyer, attempted to evade nearly $1.4 million in income tax despite earning over $250,000 a year since 2000 in various government jobs. Some of the entities Terry worked for included the Town of North Hempstead, Village of Port Washington, Village of Manorhaven, North Hempstead Housing Authority, Long Beach Housing Authority and Freeport Community Development Agency.
Terry pleaded guilty to the second count of his indictment, which stated that he did “knowingly and willfully attempt to evade and defeat substantial income tax due and owing by him to the United States” and failed to pay $992,057. Prosecutors said he did this by failing to file timely personal 1040 tax returns from 2000 to 2008 and 2011 through 2014, not properly recording his income in 2013 and 2015, and cashing over $500,000 of checks to avoid IRS collection. They also said he created a checking account under the name of Neville Warwick LLC to conceal his income. Stephen Scaring, Terry’s defense lawyer, did not respond to a request for comment but told Newsday that his client “took the plea because he’s guilty” but that there are “a lot of mitigating factors that will result in leniency.” Terry, a Roslyn Heights resident, was arrested in April 2016 Continued on Page 75
PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI
The Village of East Hills hosted its annual Halloween Spooktacular Saturday with face painting, hay rides, pumpkin decorating and meet-and-greets with Disney characters. See more photos on page 23.
O. Westbury hearing on cell antennas postponed tional Corp. representatives failed to attend the public hearing. With Mayor Fred Carillo The Old Westbury Board of Trustees held a shorter than absent, the board had a quoplanned meeting Monday rum of four, but Crown Castle when Crown Castle Interna- attorney Robert Gaudioso
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asked for the hearing to be continued to the Nov. 20 meeting because “the board would not be fully constituted,” Deputy Mayor Marina Chimerine read from a letter to trustees from Continued on Page 75
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