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Official: Verizon overcharged Suffolk $1.25M

Verizon overcharged Suffolk County on its phone bills $1.25 million, largely for hundreds of extra miles of emergency 911 phone lines for which it should never have been charged, county Comptroller Joseph Sawicki said Monday.

The county's outside consultants, said Sawicki, also expect to find another $1 million in overcharges before their review is completed next year.

"With the county...

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