LIPA chairman Howard Steinberg resigns
Photo credit: Newsday/ Audrey C. Tiernan | Long Island Power Authority Chairman Howard E. Steinberg at LIPA headquarters in Uniondale for a regularly scheduled hearing on May 26, 2011. Steinberg resigned on November 30, 2012.
LIPA chairman Howard Steinberg resigned from the LIPA board Friday effective immediately, the latest in a string of departures in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.
In a letter to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, shown to Newsday, Steinberg noted his term expired in August 2011, and said his full-time duties as a private-sector attorney "preclude me from being able to continue to devote the time required...
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