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Suffolk PBA upset with sheriff has members switch parties
rick.brand@newsday.comThe turf battle over control of Suffolk's highways turned into an all-out political war Friday as Suffolk PBA president Jeff Frayler said his union has registered an estimated 2,000 officers as new voters into the party of Conservative Sheriff Vincent...Tags: Long Island Expressway, Transportation, National Government, Long Island, Government
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Landlord charged in deaths of 3 tenants
erik.german@newsday.comWilson Milord's behavior as a landlord in West Babylon was so bad it amounted to homicide, Suffolk prosecutors said Wednesday as they charged him criminally. Milord, who owned the house on Sunrise Highway where three people died from carbon monoxide...Tags: Rentals, West Babylon, Riverhead (Riverhead, Suffolk, New York), Condos and Houses, Crimes
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Landlord pleads not guilty in tenants' deaths
erik.german@newsday.comA landlord pleaded not guilty Thursday in the deaths of three West Babylon tenants who were overcome by carbon monoxide. Wilson Milord, who owned the house on Sunrise Highway where the victims died last year, was indicted Wednesday in Riverhead on...Tags: Theft, Riverhead (Riverhead, Suffolk, New York), Crimes, Punishment, Condos and Houses
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Smithtown scrap: How secret will a lone ballot be?
Spin CycleWorking Families Party activist Donna Lent, saying she seeks to protect her ???right to a secret ballot,??? has asked Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota to probe Smithtown Republican chairman William Ellis??? disclosure of who she voted for in her...Tags: Political Candidates, Voting, Elections, Referenda
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NY landlord charged in carbon monoxide deaths
A Long Island landlord has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in the carbon monoxide deaths of three tenants, including a 4-year-old girl. Wilson Milord of Dix Hills appeared Wednesday in Suffolk County Court. Milord did not enter a...Tags: West Babylon, Babylon, Rental Service, Dix Hills, Prosecution
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Terminally ill Prospect begins jail term in bribe case
rick.brand@newsday.com; erik.german@newsday.comMore than two years after Wayne Prospect was convicted of taking bribes to steer contracts, the former Suffolk County legislator has gone to prison. State Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle ordered Friday that Prospect's sentence of 2 1/2 to 7 1/2...Tags: New York, Bribery, Punishment, Lawyers, Justice System
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'Mama' Levy has judicial juice in Suffolk, sources say
Spin Cycle???Mama??? Levy has the political juice. Republican attorney Jerry Garguilo is about to get the Democratic nomination for State Supreme Court Justice, in no small part because he???s an old family friend of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, party...Tags: Local Authority, Eliot Spitzer, Justice System, Court Administration, Prosecution
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INTERNET CHILD-PORN BILL APPROVED
The House of Representatives Friday passed a bill that cracks down on Internet child pornography. The bill expands the range of companies that must report Internet child pornography to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria,...Tags: Lower House, Facebook, Kathleen Rice, Pornography, Crimes
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Ex-owner of Bohemia payroll company guilty in client tax fraud
carrie.mason-draffen@newsday.comAfter about three hours of deliberation, a Suffolk County jury Tuesday convicted the former owner of a Bohemia payroll company of stealing at least $600,000 from 92 small-business clients. Herbert M. Geller, 60, of Westhampton, was convicted of 20 counts...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Internal Revenue Service, Theft, Crimes, Punishment
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House OKs bill to fight Internet child porn
kathleen.kerr@newsday.comThe House of Representatives Friday passed a bill that cracks down on Internet child pornography. The bill expands the range of companies that must report Internet child pornography to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria,...Tags: Lower House, Facebook, Kathleen Rice, Pornography, Crimes
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Suffolk police union official: I was offered 'bribe'; Babylon Town board fills empty ethics panel seats; Paterson got the last laugh on some Spitzer aides
SUFFOLK COUNTY Union head: I received 'bribe' offer Suffolk County Police Superior Officers Association president Jerry Gilmore rocked a legislative hearing last week when he claimed that a top police official in effect offered him a "bribe" to soften...Tags: Political Candidates, Bribery, Eliot Spitzer, David A. Paterson, Court Administration
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Injured wife pleads for husband's release in DWI case
erik.german@newsday.comA drunk man behind the wheel left her crippled, yet she begged a Suffolk judge yesterday to set the driver free. "He's a good man. He really is," Carol Yelton said softly from a reclining wheelchair that had been pushed to the center of the Riverhead...Tags: Super Bowl, Punishment, Suffolk County (New York)
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