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Friday, December 8, 2023
Vol. 9, No. 49
PortWashingtonTimes Staley touts PD reform
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
MANORHAVEN BZA PICKS CONTROVERSY
SUOZZI GETS BACKING OF N. SHORE MAYORS
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T H E L I O N , T H E W I TC H A N D T H E WA R D R OB E
Opposed by ex-police chief BY C A M E RY N O A K ES Port Washington Police Commissioner Brian Staley is running for re-election to continue enacting change in Port’s Police Department, advocating for community policing and pushing to overcome shortfalls in policing. Staley, who was elected in 2020 and is seeking his second term as Port’s first Black police commissioner, is being challenged by retired Nassau County Police Chief Sean McCarthy. He serves on the board alongside two other commissioners – Angela Lawlor Mullins and JB Meyer – but said he is the only one to have been a prior member of the Port Washington Police Department. Staley, 73, began his career in 1982 as a foot patrol officer for the Port Washington Police Department, rising up through the ranks to his final post of deputy chief when he retired in 2014. With more than 30 years working with the Port Washington Police Department, Staley said he has come to learn all the ins and outs of the community after spending more than half of his life living in Port. “I know this town,” Staley said. He said being a Black officer was difficult, experiencing racism in the Continued on Page 43
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Schreiber Theatre Club bring Narnia to the stage in their fall play production based on the novel “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
House expels Santos from his seat Disgraced 3rd District representative just the 6th member ever booted BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y The United States House of Representatives Friday morning voted to expel New York’s 3rd Congressional District Representative George Santos, making him the sixth House member ever to be ousted from Congress. A special election will be held to replace Santos and finish out his current
Santos, 35, has been subject to much term in the next 70 to 80 days. The resolution to expel Santos, criticism for lying to voters about himself in turning the district red which needed at least after winning the seat in 290 votes, passed with a tally of 311-114, with Additonal Santos 2022 that was left vacant by former U.S. Rep. 105 Republicans voting coverage Tom Suozzi (D-Glen in favor. PAGE 6 Cove), who did not seek Top House Repubre-election in pursuit of a lican leaders, including failed gubernatorial run. newly-appointed SpeakSantos was seen leaving the U.S. er Mike Johnson, voted to keep Santos Capitol Building before Johnson finalin Congress. Santos’ expulsion is the first since ized the vote amid a large gaggle of re2002 when Ohio Democrat Jim Trafi- porters. Santos did not stop to comment cant was convicted on federal corrup- on the vote when heading to his car. Friday’s vote was the third attempt tion charges. Santos is also the first Congressman to be expelled since the in six months to expel Santos and the Civil War without first being convicted first since the bipartisan House Ethics Committee released its long-awaited 56of a felony.
page report from investigators that found “substantial evidence” Santos violated federal law. Investigators concluded that Santos used campaign funds for personal purposes, defrauded donors and filed false or incomplete campaign and financial disclosures. Santos, who represents northern Nassau County and a portion of northeast Queens, sought to “fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit,” the report said, adding that his campaign was maintained “through a constant series of lies to his constituents, donors, and staff about his background and experience.” Continued on Page 42