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Remembering a GOP 'rock star'

Originally published: February 18, 2012 9:27 PM
Updated: February 18, 2012 9:49 PM
By RICK BRAND  rick.brand@newsday.com

John Powell, Suffolk GOP chairman when this photo

Photo credit: Newsday, 1998 / John Cornell | John Powell, Suffolk GOP chairman when this photo was taken, has died at the age of 51.

It may have been John Powell's worst public moment. Yet minutes after his sentencing in 2000 to more than 2 years in federal prison for bribe-taking and involvement in an illegal truck chop shop, Powell could not resist his natural political instincts.

As the former Suffolk GOP chairman was leaving in his attorney's car, he saw prosecutor George Samboulides outside the courthouse. He had the...

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