Bellone defends dual payments to Webber
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, with Police Commissioner Edward Webber nearby, holds up a Newsday newspaper during a press conference in Hauppauge. (Sept. 27, 2012)
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone defended his choice for top cop Thursday while criticizing Newsday for reporting that Police Commissioner Edward Webber was poised to collect as much as $321,000 in salary and pension.
"We conducted an extensive search and, quite frankly, every candidate [was] a retired police official," he said at a news conference in Hauppauge. "Who else would we be...
