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Ex Dem Town boss arrested on tax charges Gerard Terry failed to pay $13K in state taxes in 2010: DA By N o a h Manskar Former North Hempstead Democratic Committee chairman Gerard Terry was arraigned on a felony tax fraud charge Tuesday morning for allegedly failing to pay $13,000 in state taxes in 2010. Terry pleaded not guilty in First District Court in Hempstead following his surrender Tuesday morning to investigators from the Nassau County District Attorney’s office. Terry, 61, of Roslyn Heights, was released from custody on the condition that he surrender his passport and not leave the state. He is due back in court April 26. Terry has accumulated a state tax debt of more than $100,000 since 2000 and more felony charges are likely to come, prosecutor Diane Peress said in court Tuesday. The complaint that Investigator Jason Jerome filed in court cites Terry’s failure to file a tax return for the year 2010 in April 2011 and to
pay the more than $13,000 he owed that year. Terry’s 2010 income was more than $250,000, prosecutors said in a statement. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 2 1-3 to seven years in prison. A DA’s office spokesman said the office is continuing to investigate Terry. Prosecutors had to file the charge for the 2010 tax year before the statute of limitations ran out, Peress said. Terry committed the same crime in 2009, she said, but the statute of limitations was already up for that year when the DA’s office started its investigation in January. Terry was an attorney for the Town of North Hempstead’s Board of Zoning Appeals and special counsel to the town attorney’s office until his contract expired at the end of last year. He held six government jobs that paid him more than $200,000 last year while he maintained the tax debt, Newsday’s review found. Continued on Page 47
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Heidi Cruz campaigned for her husband, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, as he seeks to staunch GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s momentum in New York’s April 19 presidential primary.
Presidential candidates bring battle to N. Shore By N o a h Manskar
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The race for the White PAGEs 44, 45 House took center stage in Nassau County over the past week, as nearly every presidential stops leading up to New York’s candidate made Long Island April 19 primary election.
The flurry of activity is unusual, as New York has never played such a large role in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, Nassau Democratic Committee Chairman Jay Jacobs said. Continued on Page 47
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