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Spota: East Hampton official diverted millions

Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota said Thursday that a scheme to loot the land preservation fund of the Town of East Hampton and the fraudulent issuance of town-backed securities began in December 2006 with a phone call from Town Supervisor William McGintee to then budget director Ted Hults.

McGintee told Hults, who he reached while shopping at Macy's in Manhattan, that the town was...

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