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Top court: Nassau Co. must pay MTA $26M after long-running lawsuit
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ALBANY -- New York's top court dismissed a Nassau County lawsuit Thursday against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, leaving the county on the hook for almost $26 million and sparking a war of words between two county executive candidates.
It's a tangled case that began in the Gulotta era of Nassau government and involved the fiscally strapped county getting a quick cash infusion --...
Read more »Fallout widens from appellate ruling on Nassau taxes
As passed along by Newsday's Celeste Hadrick, Frank Moroney, senior adviser to Nassau's GOP legislative majority, said Wednesday night that counsel is reviewing the Appellate Division decision that knocks down the county's pass-along of school-tax refund obligations.
Democratic legislative minority leader Kevan Abrahams was more expansive.
He said: “The Democratic caucus voted against...
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