Republican Suffolk County Legislator Kevin McCaffrey , President of Teamsters Local 707 , who with his crony Joseph G Cairo in a May 8 2019 writing purported to make material changes to the Collective Bargaining Agreement including the deletion of a no laoff clause and more
The Central States Pendion fund was a criminal enterprise. Crime should not pay. The choir boys, the Teamsters were not under a federal consent decree , for being good boys.
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Dear Judge Blassman,
It has come to our attention that the petitioner Mr. Leeds posted the call-in information for tomorrow’s conference for the general public, please see this link:http://nassauotb.blogspot.com/2020/03/josepgh-g-cairo-wipes-out-otb-no-layoff.html?m=1 (a copy of the link is also attached as a PDF).
This is highly inappropriate. The respondent Local 707 requests an order requiring Mr. Leeds to remove the post plus additional sanctions you may deem appropriate, including the dismissal of this action.
Thank you for your consideration.
From: Angela Blassman <ablassman@perb.ny.gov>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 7:59 PM
To: "pointreyes@verizon.net" <pointreyes@verizon.net>, William DeWitt <wdewitt@beereadylaw.com>, Christopher Baluzy <CBaluzy@carykanelaw.com>
Subject: Re:: U-37114 - Local 707 & NROTB (Jackson Leeds )
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 7:59 PM
To: "pointreyes@verizon.net" <pointreyes@verizon.net>, William DeWitt <wdewitt@beereadylaw.com>, Christopher Baluzy <CBaluzy@carykanelaw.com>
Subject: Re:: U-37114 - Local 707 & NROTB (Jackson Leeds )
Please see the attached letter. PERB’s offices are closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Therefore, the March 30, 2020 in-person conference has been converted into a telephone conference.
As a courtesy, Mr. Baluzy has offered the use of his office’s conference call service. Therefore, the parties shall participate in the telephone conference by calling the following telephone number and using the following code at the scheduled time and date:
Conference call number – 1-800-544-4579 – code 04037832
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Angela Blassman
Administrative Law Judge
New York State Public Employment Relations Board
Nassau GOP chair intends to collect fat paychecks for 3 jobs
On the heels of pay-to-play corruption scandals that have tarnished the Long Island GOP, the Nassau County Republic Party has elected a one-time disbarred lawyer to be its new leader — and the retirement-age politico intends to collect fat paychecks from three different jobs simultaneously.
Joseph Cairo, 72, the new chairman of the Nassau County Republican Party, is also head of the Nassau County Off-Track Betting Corporation. He’s paid $198,000 at OTB.
The long-time No. 2 to former Nassau GOP boss Joe Mondello had his law license yanked in the 1990s for misusing client funds. His license was reinstated and the politically-connected lawyer now has an established law practice, GOP sources said.
He also has not ruled out collecting a third paycheck from the Nassau GOP.
Mondello, his predecessor, made more than $250,000 last year as GOP boss, and pulled in $1.5 million from his private law practice and real estate investments, records filed with the government show.
At one time, Mondello also simultaneously headed the Nassau GOP and OTB.
Cairo’s law office is in Valley Stream, his OTB’s corporate office is in Mineola and Nassau GOP headquarters is in Westbury.
A Post reporter found him at GOP headquarters.
Cairo said he was not relinquishing his OTB executive job or suspending his law practice after taking the reins of the GOP.
“I’ve been at OTB. This is a crucial time at OTB with possibly sports gambling coming so we’re deeply involved with that there now,” Cairo said.
“This is a political position. My attorneys tell me there is no conflict and I think having a position in a political party is such that it’s been done in the past by people on both sides of the aisle. And I think it’s currently done, too, in some other counties — their elected officials are also party chairmen,” he said.
But watchdogs have long complained that allowing people to simultaneously hold top positions in government and party leadership opens the door to conflicts of interests and potential corruption.
“It’s business as usual. This is an example of the rotten political system in Nassau County,” said George Marlin, who formerly served on the Nassau County Interim Finance Authority, a state agency set up to monitor the county’s shaky finances.
Marlin said the multiple paid gigs for Cairo is remarkable, especially after the Nassau Republicans lost the county executive’s race and the Town of Hempstead supervisor’s race last year amid concerns over corruption.
“They’ve learned nothing,” Marlin said. “They don’t care.”
Cairo chalked up the suspension of his law license to a mistake from the distant past.
“I think that’s something that happened — it was earlier than ‘95, that’s 25 years ago, and I think people who know me know the type of person I am,” he said.
With that, Cairo grabbed a suit jacket from a parked black Cadillac before jumping into the passenger seat of a Jaguar driven by a friend.
Cairo is right about one thing. On Long Island particularly, politicians simultaneously collecting hefty paychecks from top government and political party posts is a time-honored tradition.
The Post reported last week that Rich Schaffer is drawing down a combined $350,000 from three paychecks as head of the Suffolk County Democratic Party, as the full-time Town of Babylon Supervisor and from a law practice that includes representing plumbing contractors.
But Long Island Democrats have their scandals, too.
Gerard Terry, the former North Hempstead Democratic Party chairman, was convicted of tax evasion for failing to report his income that included payments from legal services provided to eight different local government agencies.
New Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat who won the election on anti-corruption platform last year, passed executive orders barring county government officials from holding party positions or from accepting gifts.
New York City has a law that bars top government officials from serving as party bosses, following the municipal corruption scandals of the 1980s.
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