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Terry accused of misconduct by candidate G.N. lawyer levels charges in announcing challenge to Suozzi BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN A Great Neck lawyer has accused Gerard Terry, the former North Hempstead Democratic Party chairman who is serving a prison term for tax evasion, of having propositioned him to have sex when he was a young political activist. The lawyer, Michael Weinstock, 47, who served as an assistant district attorney in Kings County for five years, made the allegations in a letter made available to Blank Slate Media and interviews. He made the claims in announcing that he would run against incumbent Rep. Tom Suozzi (DGlen Cove) for the Democratic nomination in the 3rd Congressional District. He said he was running in part over unhappiness with Suozzi’s backing of Terry. Weinstock alleged that the first instance happened in 1996, when Terry allegedly said that as his men-
tor, “I want to spend lots of time with you. I want to take you on overnight trips and open doors for you,” and “I want to do things with you that you’ve never done before.” Another alleged instance came after Weinstock volunteered for a friend’s political campaign after he graduated from law school in 1998, he said, when he went into Terry’s office. “After a little chit chat, Terry grasped my forearm and told me, ‘I want to see more of you.’ I squirmed away and ran to the door,” Weinstock alleged. “While I was running to the elevator, Terry stood in the doorframe of his office, pointing his finger at me and shouting, ‘I remember who my friends are, Michael! You ask around!’” “When I was a prosecutor, I encouraged dozens of men and women to testify about sex crimes,” Weinstock said. “It would be wrong if I pretended that none of this happened.” Continued on Page 54
PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN
Final touches are being put on Williston Park’s new water tower, which is expected to go online on June 1.
W.P. expects water tower to go online June 1 BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Williston Park’s new water tower is expected to go online June 1, village Mayor Paul Ehrbar said in a village newsletter,
as the contractor continues to do final tweaks on the structure. The $7.34 million tower, which was erected in April by contractor Landmark Structures, replaced the aging
90-year-old water tower on Syracuse Street. Like the old tower, it stands 180 feet tall and holds up to 500,000 gallons of water. Ehrbar said that welding Continued on Page 55
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