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Nassau County Executive Is Arrested in Bribery Scheme

 

By VIVIAN YEE and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM

OCT. 20, 2016

 

The Nassau County executive, Edward P. Mangano, his wife and the supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay, were arrested early Thursday morning in a bribery and kickback scheme, federal authorities said.

The three were expected to appear in court later on Thursday, and the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Robert L. Capers, was set to announce the charges against them in a news conference on Long Island at 11 a.m.

The Oyster Bay supervisor, John Venditto, was arrested at his home, while Mr. Mangano and his wife, Linda Mangano, drove to the local office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and surrendered.

The arrests, which were confirmed by Martin R. Feely, a spokesman for the F.B.I., capped months of looming trouble for Mr. Mangano, a powerful figure in Long Island Republican politics and the top elected official in Nassau County. Mr. Mangano has been dogged by reports — many published in Newsday — that he and his family had vacationed in the Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos on trips that were paid for by Harendra Singh, a Long Island restaurateur who won a county contract to provide food to local officials in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Mr. Singh, who is cooperating with prosecutors in the case, has already been charged with several crimes, including bribing a former deputy town attorney in Oyster Bay. Mr. Singh is also cooperating with federal prosecutors in Manhattan, in an unrelated investigation, into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fund-raising practices.

According to the indictment unsealed on Thursday, a “local businessman and restaurateur,” believed to be Mr. Singh, owned about 30 businesses, most of them in Nassau County, some of which received several contracts from Nassau County agencies and the Town of Oyster Bay.

The town also guaranteed some loans that some of Mr. Singh’s businesses received from a bank and a private financing company. In exchange, according to the indictment, Mr. Singh paid for some of Mr. Mangano and Mr. Venditto’s travel expenses, limousine services, meals and other gifts that included a massage chair, a watch, new wood flooring at Mr. Mangano’s home, and discounts on events and fund-raisers at the businessman’s restaurants.

Ms. Mangano also received more than $450,000 over four years for a no-show job at one of the restaurants.

The Manganos and Mr. Venditto subsequently lied to federal investigators who interviewed them about the bribes, according to the indictment, with Ms. Mangano going so far as to fabricate instances of work she had done at the no-show restaurant job.

Arielle Dollinger contributed reporting from Central Islip, N.Y.


 

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Time to put orange tape over Eddie's name on those NICE buses.

 

 

What a surprise, more Long Island sleaze in politics

Wat?  They learned from the best back on the mainland!

 

Funny how people today can't pull off what the Mob used to do very easily in the past.

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ROFL...like it wasn't GOING to happen anyways........

 

Cuomo lawyers were already there, at the ready, even IF Eddie was a Republican ... just in case (wipe those fingerprints, and such).

 

Even though Wikileaks hasn't targeted Cuomo (yet) do you think he's taking any chances?

 

Why fess up, anyways?: The sham system is still in place ... why wreck what the Feds haven't crackled yet?

 

Just saying.....

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Time to put orange tape over Eddie's name on those NICE buses.

 

 

Wat? They learned from the best back on the mainland!

 

Funny how people today can't pull off what the Mob used to do very easily in the past.

The masters of the game are dead

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Time to put orange tape over Eddie's name on those NICE buses.

 

 

Wat?  They learned from the best back on the mainland!

 

Funny how people today can't pull off what the Mob used to do very easily in the past.

Is this the man who 4 years ago "stole" LIB from the MTA, discontinued 1/3 of the NICE routes recently????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? *in my deputy from Beverly Hills Cop 1's voice*

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If my memory serves me correctly, Governor Andrew Cuomo does not use any devices. This has created a problem as there is no paper or other  things that enables law enforcement to point the finger at him. 

As far as Ed  Mangano is concerned, the president appoints the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and let us hope that President Trump appoints someone who will continue to pursue this case, I note that there are names being mentioned to replace Phreet Bahara already even though it is just the middle of November.

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Is this the man who 4 years ago "stole" LIB from the MTA, discontinued 1/3 of the NICE routes recently????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? *in my deputy from Beverly Hills Cop 1's voice*

I suspect him to be the pride of his office in Nassau Co. :)

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