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Friday, December 23, 2022
Vol. 71, No. 51
GUIDE TO WINTER
GCP COMMISH RACE DEMS PUSH TO REDUCE RED RESULTS CONTESTED LIGHT VIOLATION PENALTIES
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Santos bashed for alleged phony resume
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GOP congressman-elect faces calls to step down in face of newspaper report BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Droves of elected officials throughout New York and the nation have bashed Republican Congressman-elect George Santos for allegedly providing false educational and professional experience for his biography after The New York Times unearthed the discrepancies earlier this week. Santos, who was elected to the state’s 3rd Congressional District in November, was accused by The Times of lying about earning degrees from NYU and Baruch College as well as working for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Neither college could confirm his enrollment to multiple media outlets while neither company could confirm his employment. Robert Zimmerman, the Democrat Santos defeated in the November election, said in a statement the Republican has violated the public’s trust and called on him to resign from his position. “The reality is Santos flat-out lied to the voters of NY-03. He’s violated the public trust in order to win office and does not deserve to represent Long Island and Queens,” Zimmerman said. “Santos’ failure to answer any of the questions about these allegations demonstrates why he is unfit for public office and should resign. It demonstrates
why there must be a House Ethics Committee, Federal Elections Commission, and U.S. Attorney investigation immediately.” Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan (D-Woodbury), who lost to Zimmerman in the Democratic Primary election earlier this year, held a press conference on Tuesday calling for Santos to resign. Melanie D’Arrigo, who also ran in the Democratic Primary against Lafazan and Zimmerman, bashed Devolder-Santos in a tweet. “So the Republican who directed a Ponzi scheme, financially supported insurrectionists, attended a gala with white supremacists, and had his election campaign funded by a Putinaligned oligarch may have also invented his entire back story?” D’Arrigo tweeted. Democrat Laura Gillen, who also lost to Republican Anthony D’Esposito in the state’s 4th Congressional District race, praised The Times for its reporting “on the kind of fiction the Nassau County GOP regularly serves up to voters.” Joseph G. Cairo Jr., chairman of the Nassau County Republican Party, told the Times that the allegations raised “serious” issues that he believed Santos should address. Continued on Page 38
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Ex-Herricks teacher pleads guilty to vaxxing teen BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y
Russo, of Sea Cliff, Russo was arrested on New Year’s Eve last Laura Parker Russo, the for- year for allegedly injecting her son’s mer Herricks High School teacher 17-year-old friend with the Johnson charged with injecting a minor with & Johnson vaccine. Nassau County a COVID-19 vaccine, pleaded guilty detectives said they were alerted by the teenager’s mother after he Friday and will avoid jail time.
returned home from Russo’s Sea Cliff residence. The youth had gone to her home and was administered an injection by Russo, to which his mother had not consented, officials said. Continued on Page 39
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