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Ex-LI banker still plans to return to area

Former local banker John Kanas still, now a

Photo credit: David Pokress | Former local banker John Kanas still, now a Florida CEO, plans to buy the metro area’s Herald National. (April 22, 2009)

James Bernstein

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What, you don't think big bankers stand in line at Starbucks and buy their own coffee?

Maybe most don't, but their number does not include John Adam Kanas, the former chief executive of Melville-based North Fork Bank, which he turned into a powerhouse over a period of three decades and sold in 2006 to Capital One of McLean, Va.

We caught up with Kanas as he was paying for his coffee...

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