The Insiders investigation: Key players
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Gary Melius, Oheka Castle owner and political power broker.
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Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Thomas Whelan, Independence Party member.
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Mark Cuthbertson, a private attorney and longtime Huntington councilman, whose largest single campaign donor is Gary Melius.
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Steven Schlesinger, counsel to the Nassau Democratic Party and managing partner of the Garden City law firm of Jaspan Schlesinger.
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Ronald Rosenberg, an Independence Partry member and senior partner at the Garden City law firm of Rosenberg, Calica and Birney. He is also Gary Melius' personal attorney.
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Richard Bellando, chairman of the Nassau Independence Party, has also been chief operating officer of Oheka Castle and is Melius’ former son-in-law.
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Kelly Melius has been sales director and event planner for Oheka Castle and is Gary Melius’ daughter.
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Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Emily Pines, elected to the Supreme Court in 2001 with the backing of the Republican, conservative, Independence and Right to Life lines.
Not pictured: Geraldine Mayo, a former Gary Melius employee who worked as Oheka Castle’s property manager.
