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Newsday Investigation: Plume: Decades of Deceit

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A dumpster-diving whistleblower shed light on alleged corruption in the town of Oyster Bay. After two years reporting on the story, federal investigators have brought charges against Nassau's top politician and his wife, and a town's supervisor, in a case that began with a local restaurateur. 

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Keith Bush was a 17-year-old junior at Bellport High School when Suffolk authorities charged him with killing Sherese Watson, 14, after a late-night house party in North Bellport. For the past 44 years, Keith Bush has claimed he was an innocent man, ever since he was accused and convicted of the 1975 Suffolk County sex-related murder. 


Newsday Investigation: Proving Innocence: The Story of Keith Bush

Proving Innocence: The Story of Keith Bush

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A Newsday investigation found some of the same companies, individuals or families played roles in the path that brought illegally disposed construction debris in both the Roberto Clemente Park and "Pay Dirt" dumping cases.


Clemente Park, 'Pay Dirt' dumping cases are linked

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Paul LaRocco explains the illegal dumping case at West Hills County Park in Melville.

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Felipe Iñiguez, 49, of Central Islip, entered the United States illegally in 2001. When Iñiguez was pulled over in May for a burned-out headlight, Lloyd Harbor police notified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Ecuadoran immigrant, who lives in Central Islip, was detained on Aug. 29. 


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When he was 14, MS-13 became his family. Edwin tells us what drew him in — and how he got out.


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It was 1996 when John Oliva, then an officer with the Suffolk County Police Department, first saw graffiti featuring the name MS-13. 


Watch: Ride along with ex-cop who fought MS-13 on LI

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Carlota Moran doesn’t want to remember.

She doesn’t want to think about that terrible night in February 2016 when her 15-year-old son, Miguel, went missing.

“It was a very, very terrible night, terrible, and no, I don’t even want to remember it anymore because it is very difficult for me, you know?” she said in Spanish through tears in a video interview with Newsday.

ProPublica reporter Hannah Dreier has interviewed Carlota frequently over the past 13 months and arranged for Newsday to speak with her in early September. Carlota's interviews with ProPublica and Newsday provide the fullest account to date from a parent whose child went missing during the murder spree in 2016 and '17 tied to the violent MS-13 street gang.

Carlota described her own search for her missing son in agonizing detail.

It began the night he disappeared.

“We went out through the neighborhood,” she said. “It was so dark, looking for him. You know how Brentwood is, it’s dark, it seems, it is the most horrible thing here.”

Then they went back home and waited. “It was the longest night of my life,” Carlota said.

Later, she contacted police, but she said they didn’t pay attention to her complaint. In her interviews with ProPublica, she said they told her that her son was probably out with friends and not to worry. “They treated us bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.”

Later, Carlota’s daughter, Lady, found Facebook messages from another boy to Miguel telling him to meet them in nearby woods to smoke marijuana, the woods that became known as a “killing field.” They took those messages to the police. Carlota said the boy told police he didn’t know what happened to her son — that he sent Miguel another text message that they were going to meet somewhere else but that Miguel never showed up.

Lady never found that text message. That, Carlota said, was proof that the boy was lying.

But she said police didn’t pursue it. A Suffolk County Police Department spokesman declined to comment because the investigation is ongoing.

Carlota said police asked her to give them the address of the last place Miguel might have been, but Carlota said she was just too “blocked” mentally to give them any addresses.

But she still searched. “We went out to look for him every day. We did not come home at night. We would go out, we would just come home to eat something or we ate something outside; and we would keep on searching,” she said.

“Day after day, you know, think he was going, he was going to come home and he never did. It was not a day, or two days, it was months,” she said, sobbing. “It ate my soul away and I could not live. I could not breathe anymore.”

-Sandra Peddie

Watch the video above and read the Newsday-ProPublica <a href="https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/ms13-suffolk-police-miguel/">special report</a>.

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A Newsday investigation found that Nassau's landmark Environmental Bonds Acts of 2004 and 2006 benefited political insiders, as well as wildlife and water quality. And while taxpayers continue to pay down the borrowing for the purchases, the level of public access for many of the sites was never realized.


Watch: Visit by air and by foot Nassau’s hidden public spaces

Watch: Visit by air and by foot Nassau's hidden public spaces

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5 deaths, 6 months: The case of Cory Gloe

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For two years, Newsday has followed and filmed various Long Island drag racers. While some practice the sport legally, there exists a sub-culture of racers who do not. The consequences of those illegal street races have, at times, led to tragedy.  For decades, there were three sanctioned drag strips on Long Island. But each has been shuttered, leaving many in the film to wonder, if Long Island still had a legal drag strip, would that curtail the amount of illegal racing? (Newsday staff)

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Andrew Dykes' defense team added another attorney as the 66-year-old suspect is accused of killing Gilgo Beach victim Tanya Denise Jackson, also known as "Peaches." NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.

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Lines out the door at open houses, offers above asking price: NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland and Newsday real estate reporter Rachel Weiss talk to local professionals about how to navigate this hot market.

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New court papers reveal details of Rex Heuermann's first 24 hours in custody. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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Two months after Manuel Hernández Zelada disappeared after being arrested by ICE, his family has found him, in a federal facility in New Mexico.

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Republican Bruce Blakeman took the oath of office to begin his second term as county executive on Monday night. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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The deposed Venezuelan leader made his first court appearance on Monday in Manhattan as large crowds gathered outside the courthouse. NewsdayTV's Andrew Ehinger reports.

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Hundreds attended the funeral for Edeedson Cine Jr., 23, in Dix Hills on Friday.

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Port Washington's Rapid Response Network aims to prevent or stop federal officials from making arrests by warning immigrants of ICE sightings. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie has more.

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A South Setauket father, Vincent DiStasi, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for beating his infant son to the point where he needed brain surgery. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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Each semifinalist will receive $2,000 and their school will receive a matching amount. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul said she is preparing a legal fight. NewsdayTV's Andrew Ehinger reports.

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John Pilaccio pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges in the fatal stabbing of CVS employee Edeedson Cine Jr. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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