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Hauppauge company cashes in on a niche service

Business partners Michael Casalini, right, and Gregory Jagenburg,

Photo credit: James Carbone | Business partners Michael Casalini, right, and Gregory Jagenburg, at their office in Hauppauge where they run a check cashing service for businesses. (January 2010)

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Michael Casalini has the distinction of being co-owner of the first commercial check-cashing business to be licensed by New York State. And his Hauppauge-based company, Bridge Capital Solutions, is the only commercial check-casher on the Island.

Check-cashing places bring to mind dimly lit holes-in-the-wall at the corner of rundown streets. Bridge Capital, however, "looks as clean as a doctor's...

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