Suffolk County

Good Job! New York State Lawmakers Only Violated Campaign Finance Law 103,805 Times in Two Years

Seems like you can't walk down an Albany sidewalk without stumbling over a lawmaker charged with graft these days, but the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) put out a report yesterday that shows how widely the system is failing. According to the report, New York state lawmakers have ... More >>

Education Supplement: Class Action Listings

M.D.'s Are the New Pain-Pill Crime Wave

Dr. Dealer

Dear New York, Here's Your Disaster Response

If it weren't colossally tragic, the level of disorder, dysfunction, and all-around clusterfuckery that characterizes the official disaster response in New York City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy would be fast approaching hilarious. As it is, the situation is both heartbreaking and enraging. The ... More >>

Fuel Rationing Now Called "Temporary Gasoline Management Plan" -- And It Will Be in Full Effect Tomorrow

The term "fuel rationing" has a certain apocalyptic, Carter-esque connotation. But don't worry, we're not doing that here in New York City. Starting tomorrow, the Big Apple and surrounding counties won't be rationing fuel; they will be implementing their "temporary gasoline management plan" (read: f ... More >>

Another School Bus Driver Charged With DWI (Sigh)

For the third time this month, a New York school bus driver is accused of driving a bus drunk.The latest allegedly tipsy driver is 47-year-old James Sommer, of Massapequa. At the time of his alleged DWI, Sommer was transporting 29 seventh graders on a field trip to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ... More >>

Long Island Dr. Feel-Good Charged In Oxycodone Overdose Deaths Of Two Patients

A Long Island physician has been charged in the deaths of two patients who overdosed on Oxycodone last year, federal prosecutors announced this morning.Additionally, the doctor's former office assistant has been hit with charges alleging that he was involved in the unlawful distribution of the dange ... More >>

Reward For Long Island Scumbag Who Threw Puppy From Moving Car Now $25,000

If getting an animal-torturing shit-bag off the streets isn't enough, there are now 25,000 more reasons to turn in the person who threw a 3-month-old puppy out of a moving car in Long Island over the weekend.We told you about "Joey" -- a 3-month-old pit bull -- on Tuesday, at which point the reward ... More >>

Oxycodone Epidemic: Feds, Locals Bust 100 for Dealing Prescription Pills, Including Two Doctors and a Nurse

The Feds and local authorities this week rounded up 98 people involved in the trafficking of prescription drugs like oxycodone, including two doctors and a nurse. Law enforcement officers executed dozens of search warrants, and sued a Brooklyn pharmacist to bar him from dispensing the highly addicti ... More >>

Hammer Officially Dropped On Prescription Drug Traffickers; Sweep Nets Nearly 100 Arrests -- Including Two Doctors

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies dropped the hammer on the illegal prescription drug trafficking biz this morning in a sweep that netted nearly 100 arrests, including two doctors and one nurse practitioner.The most arrests occurred on Staten Island, where law enforcement officials s ... More >>

With DUI's, Long Islanders Have Already Had a Rough Memorial Day Weekend

At the beginning of the month, Runnin' Scared mentioned that Nassau County police officers were getting a grant for the month of May to ramp up the amount of police officers on the lookout for drunk drivers. Looks like it came just in time for the holidays - what perfect timing.Over the pa ... More >>

Report: Long Islanders Love Drugs

If you live on Long Island, there's a pretty good chance that you absolutely love drugs -- and we're not talking about weed, we're talking about real drugs like heroin, Oxycontin, and other opiates.In response to last year's "Father's Day Pharmacy Massacre" -- during which a pill junky murdered four ... More >>

Long Island Cat-Killer Sought; Creep Shot Animal With Bow And Arrow

Full disclosure: we're not cat people. They're rude, cocky, and bring nothing to the table. That said, we acknowledge that cats are living things and we would never do anything to harm one. The same can not be said about some sick creep in Long Island, who recently shot a cat with a bow and arrow. T ... More >>

'Housewives' Rock The Hamptons! Underwear Boys Take Fire Island!

A tour of Fire Island, the Hamptons, the anti-Hamptons. All nice. Now it's back to Murray Hill.

Long Island Dead Bodies Reward Raised to $25,000

​Way too many bodies have been found since December along the Jones Beach, Gilgo Beach and Ocean Parkway area of Suffolk County, Long Island. The four identified so far -- Amber Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Melissa Barthelemy -- are thought to be the work of a Lon ... More >>

New York Serial Killer Probably Didn't Hit New Jersey

​Police said on Wednesday that the bodies of four prostitutes found around Atlantic City, New Jersey back in 2006 do not seem to have anything to do with the eight bodies (and maybe ninth and tenth sets of remains) found on Long Island, near Gilgo and Jones Beach, since late 2010. Thought to b ... More >>

Probers Lucky That Nassau County's Scandal-Ridden Crime Lab Already Shut Down

​When the grisly coastal search for victims of a possible Long Island serial killer moved westward from Suffolk County to Nassau County, law enforcement and the public finally caught a break: It looks as if the scandal-ridden, corrupt Nassau County Police crime lab will not be involved in the case ... More >>

Pizza Rules in a Bad Economy; Long Island Kids May Lose Their Energy Drinks

​Pizza parlors are thriving in this crappy economy. In the past year, the 65,000 pizzerias in the U.S. sold 5.5 billion pies every day. [ABC News] A new study reveals that butter is worse for you than you think. Apparently, nine out of 10 brands contain flame retardant in the sticks. [ABC New ... More >>

Red Bull Falls Prey to Loko-Scapegoating; Now They Want to Take Away All That Is Good and Holy

​As someone who consumed a nearly full can of Four Loko last night and is paying for that ill-advised move in delayed mental and visual responses, circular logic, lack of focus, and a world of regret, I feel well equipped to comment on today's latest ban of things that teenagers like. A law no ... More >>

First Tornado Hits the Bronx in 36 Years

via Daily News​On Friday night, for a 15-minute period, we were hunkered down in our windowless bathroom (just in case!) as our Twitter flashed "Tornado WARNING" from New York's Office of Emergency Management, NotifyNYC, and, of course, the National Weather Service. (A warning, for future refe ... More >>

Charlie King is New Democratic Attack Dog. Ruff!

​State Democrats today announced a new "truth squad" to contest any and all Republican fibs, and tapped new party executive director Charlie King as lead attack dog. King, who lost bids for statewide office (lieutenant governor 2002; attorney general 2006) and later worked for Al Sharpton's Na ... More >>

Steve Levy Has an Odd-Couple Roommate Tenant Problem

​Gubernatorial wannabe Steve Levy this morning is trying to explain his "Odd Couple" roommate, a disgraced lawyer named Ethan Ellner who recently copped a guilty plea in a massive mortgage scam with a kinky overlay of S&M. As the Daily News' relentless Elizabeth Benjamin reports today, Levy sh ... More >>

Carl Paladino's Beyond-the-Pale E-mails

​It's only Monday and it's already clear it's going to be a tough week for Republicans looking to be elected governor. On top of Steve Levy's scrambling to explain how he came to share his house in Suffolk County with a twice-convicted scam-artist attorney, comes news from Buffalo that Carl Pa ... More >>

Lazio - Levy Battle Over Secret Tapes, Thanks to Voice

​Not that this story ranks anywhere on the new Gawk-O-Meter by which all things Web are now measured, but we still take small satisfaction that a few lines in a Voice story this week prompted live grenades to be tossed back and forth between the two leading contenders for the Republican nomina ... More >>

Pumped-up Steve Levy Fires Downtown Volleys

​Steve Levy, newly hatched Republican candidate for governor, was working the Wall Street precincts today in search of campaign cash and took the opportunity to blast away at almost everyone else. Using a conference room at a friendly downtown law firm (Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles), the Suffolk ... More >>

Our Guide to the Greatest of the ND/NF's Latest

(Because newer is not always better)

Eric Cantor, Dan Senor Host Fundraiser for Tea Party Candidate in NY-1

​Via Elizabeth Benjamin in the Daily News, House Minority Whip (and Republican Rebranding specialist) Eric Cantor will be a special guest tonight at a fundraiser for self-funding millionaire Suffolk County House candidate Randy Altschuler. On the host committee: Bush loyalist, Iraq Coalition a ... More >>

David Weprin Wins Special Election; Others Held; Hiram Monserrate's Seat Up March 16

​In that special assembly election in Queens we almost missed, former city councilmember David Weprin took the seat held by his brother and his daddy before him, 62 percent of the vote versus Bob Friedrich's 38 percent. Weprin's faces an election-election in November. And look, there were ot ... More >>

Feds plan to battle foreclosure crisis with social awkwardness

​Treasury spokeswoman Meg Reilly announced Saturday that the Obama administration plans to step up their efforts to pressure mortgage companies receiving government bailout funds to modify loans and keep homeowners from defaulting. Along with slowing payments to uncooperative mortgage lender ... More >>

Upstate wants a divorce

​Periodically, one or the other of the partners in New York City's nervous marriage with parts north threatens to leave. This time, a State Senator from solid red upstate has weighed our value as a revenue source against our New Yorker cooties and found us wanting.

Paterson Releases Delicious Stimulus $ Report: NYC Gets $8.16 Billion

Governor Paterson released a report today showing where the $18 billion that New York State got in stimulus money is going. You'll be pleased to hear that the counties comprising New York City receive by far the most American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds -- $8.16 billion. Hooray! Secon ... More >>

Paterson Polls Even Worse; His Gay Marriage Bill Not Looking Good Either

Maybe the problem is they're polling him too damn much. but Governor Paterson just set a new record, with New Yorkers who think he's doing a good or excellent job at just 19 percent in a new Marist poll. His approval among Democrats is 22 percent. 66 percent "say he does not have what it takes to le ... More >>

Assembly Expands Red-Light-Camera Rip-Off

Use of red light cameras -- which advocates say promotes safety, but is really just another way of shaking down motorists for money -- is being hugely expanded by the state legislature. The lawmakers approved them for use in Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties, and allowed ... More >>

Monday's Headlines: Mob rat fingers two cops in gang slaying

HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart AssetYour Monday New York headlines...Gotti mob rat Alite fingers a Suffolk County cop, NYPD detective in gang murder.Carrión goes to Washington after a mixed record in the Bronx.Weiner directs fed funds to a Brooklyn nonprofit that's given him $160,000 in campa ... More >>

GOP Pol Defines Obesity: If you can't see it, you're too fat

Here's a bit of blog blubber tailor-made for the Voice's newly instituted Pass-the-Reader along rule: Newsday's Spin Cycle has a mildly redacted version of what conservative Suffolk County GOP legislator Thomas Barraga had to say at a recent hearing on the all-important trans-fats debate: "A guy get ... More >>

Paterson Grants Clemency to Two

So far Governor Paterson hasn't done anything about reforming the Rockefeller drug laws that have incarcerated thousands of small-time drug offenders. But he has granted, with lengthy explanations of their backgrounds and evidence of their rehabilitation, New Year's clemencies to Joanne Carroll of S ... More >>

Edible News Roundup

Domestic Workers Rally for Protection Outside of L.I. Slavery Sentencing

Rudy's Friend: The Accused Pedophile Priest

Young, Restless

City Goes Judge Shopping

Held in contempt for convention detentions, the city gets a Pataki court to step in

Born to Be Mild

The Young Rick Lazio: Soul of an Old Machine

A Couple of Startling Facts

A Couple of Startling Facts

A dark horse sees the light

Our Own Piece of 'The Rock'

Covering Your Partner

Unnatural Disasters

How Humans Are Behind the Weather Weirdness

Meltdown Over BNL Evacuation