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Brand: Bellone's chief deputy has mission

March 3, 2012 9:01 PM By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

L-R: Suffolk County Chief Deputy County Executive Regina

Photo credit: Newsday/Karen Wiles Stabile | L-R: Suffolk County Chief Deputy County Executive Regina Calcaterra, Assistant Deputy County Executive Eric A. Kopp, director of communications Vanessa Baird-Streeter, and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone meet in Regina's office in Hauppauge. (March 1, 2012)

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Regina Calcaterra says her work on corporate pension fraud cases was the perfect training for her new role as Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone's chief deputy, given the county's yawning budget deficit.

"In cases like WorldCom, we spent time looking at the financial statements to find where there were lies and how it affected investors," said Calcaterra, whose law firm represented the...

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