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Democrat Rita Kestenbaum and Republican Steve Rhoads, the two candidates in the Nassau County Legislature’s 19th District, squared off last Thursday not so much against each other as against a roomful of likely voters given free rein to ask or say what they pleased.
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By Brian Racow
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2/25/15
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The outcome of the race in the Nassau County Legislature's 19th District could prove key to whether the Legislature’s Republican majority is able to secure a supermajority, which is needed to borrow money or override a county executive’s veto.
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By Brian Racow
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2/4/15
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Dave Denenberg’s resignation from the Nassau County Legislature on Jan. 21, the day that he pleaded guilty to mail fraud in federal court, set off a scramble to fill the seat he held for 15 years.
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By Brian Racow
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2/4/15
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Dave Denenberg, a longtime Nassau County legislator from Merrick accused by his former law firm of over-billing a corporate client for millions of dollars, pleaded guilty to eight counts of mail fraud Wednesday morning in Central Islip federal court.
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By Brian Racow and Scott Brinton
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1/21/15
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Nassau County Legislator Dave Denenberg, the Merrick Democrat accused by his former law firm of over-billing a corporate client for millions of dollars, was due in federal court on Jan. 21, after press time, to answer eight federal mail fraud charges.
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By Scott Brinton and Brian Racow
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1/20/15
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On Oct. 21, 1982, Democrat Mario Cuomo, then a candidate for governor of New York, was campaigning furiously on Long Island. Among his stops was WGBB radio, on Landsdowne Avenue in Merrick, where he debated Lewis Lehrman, his Republican-Conservative opponent and an investment banker.
Richard Kessel, a native Merokean whom Cuomo later named executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board, was there that day. He had lunch with Cuomo afterward.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/7/15
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The lawsuit that ended Nassau County Legislator Dave Denenberg’s State Senate campaign is over.The Merrick Democrat’s former law firm, Davidoff Hutch & Citron, which sued him in September for allegedly defrauding a corporate client of $2.3 million, filed a ...
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By Brian Racow
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12/23/14
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Nassau County Legislator Dave Denenberg, the Merrick Democrat accused by his former employer of overbilling a large corporate client for millions of dollars, was expected to plead guilty to mail fraud charges in federal court in Central Islip on Dec. 11, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
He didn’t, however.
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By Brian Racow and Scott Brinton
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12/10/14
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Republicans are preparing to take over the U.S. Senate on Jan. 2, when their new members will be sworn in and take their oaths of office. Until then, both parties need to learn to play nice.
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11/20/14
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Daisy Denenberg, mother of Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg and two other children, who later in life started a career as a psychologist, earning her doctorate at 51 and working in local schools and then her own practice, died on Nov. 15 after a short battle with cancer. She was 77.
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By Brian Racow
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11/18/14
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