Looking for logic in Nassau's fiscal feud
Chairman Ronald A. Stack, left, and director Thomas W. Stokes others at a meeting of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority on March 24 in Uniondale. Credit: Chris Ware
Regarding "Nassau drops suit over NIFA takeover" [News, March 30], let me get this straight. Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, an elected official, filed a lawsuit to stop a takeover by the Nassau Interim Finance Authority. He hired lawyers at $250 per hour.
NIFA responded by hiring lawyers at $875 per hour, at the taxpayers' expense, then blamed Mangano for costing the taxpayers millions in legal costs.
NIFA's members are the nonelected officials we're supposed to trust?
Ed Poline
Let me see if I understand. NIFA exercises its lawful takeover of Nassau County's finances because of continuing issues going back many years (and many county executives). Ed Mangano takes exception to this, claiming that he wants to be the one to straighten out this mess.
He sues NIFA, even though it has a contractual right to take the action it took. He has so far spent $418,000 of the taxpayers' money challenging NIFA. This during a fiscal crisis?
Richard Levens
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