Long Island Newsday

Probe eyes LIPA employees' links to pols

Originally published: November 20, 2012 10:03 PM
Updated: November 20, 2012 10:54 PM
By GUS GARCIA-ROBERTS, ROBERT LEWIS, SANDRA PEDDIE, ADAM PLAYFORD AND WILL VAN SANT lidesk@newsday.com

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Nearly a quarter of Long Island Power Authority employees in the last decade had connections to politically powerful people on the Island and in New York State before working at the utility, a Newsday investigation has found.

They include a former congressman's wife, the daughter of a former district attorney, a judge's son, a one-time county legislator, the wife of a former mayor, and several...

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