Thursday, October 29, 2020

donald clavin spreads faster than the covid & newsday fails 'I don't know what we're hiding,' 'irresponsible': Oyster Bay residents, Dems react to raises topping $665G Residents want answers on raises for Oyster Bay Town board members Juanita Holmes named NYPD's new chief of patrol Parents concerned over possible East Northport school closure Thursday's forecast: Rainy and windy, with high temps in the 50s 9/11 workers who die of COVID-19 to be added to Nesconset wall Suffolk fines Cutchogue country club $17G in 'superspreader' event Trotta: Bellone "trying to balance the budget on our water" Herricks school district on publicly posted AP test results American Venice civic group hopes to create a living shoreline in Lindenhurst Wednesday's forecast: Rain with temperatures in the low 60s Protesters: Protect our incarcerated loved ones Jupiter Hammon essay contest winners College and COVID-19: What students should know about the application process Clinical trial gives LI woman a new lease on life Cuomo: All red zone positivity rates are down Traffic is back on Long Island Monday's forecast: Overcast with light rain, high of 60 Students adjusting to balancing virtual and in-school learning Mayor calls for BOE to bring out more machines Getting a flu shot at time of 'twindemic' fears Oakdale Historical Society president speaks out about Idlehour estate Officials declined to comment Tuesday night, during or after a budget hearing, about the town board's approval of more than $665,000 in raises for 151 town employees during the pandemic. Newsday's Steve Langford reports. Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara and J. Conrad Williams By Ted Phillips ted.phillips@newsday.com @tedephillips Updated October 21, 2020 9:08 PM PRINT SHARE Oyster Bay Town officials declined to comment Tuesday night, during or after a budget hearing, on more than $665,000 in raises given to 151 town employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "If you kindly contact the communications office and follow our normal procedure it would be greatly appreciated," Supervisor Joseph Saladino said in response to Newsday questions about the pay hikes. The town board approved the raises for department heads, deputies and rank-and-file workers at meetings in May, June, July and August without disclosing them to the public as required by state Open Meetings Law. Total pay increases for the workers since 2019, including raises in the union contract, total $1 million.to use ny pub off law sec 84 etc

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nyc cop 4 trump comes to bet at joseph g cairo's levitown branch NYPD officer who blared ‘Trump 2020’ over cop-car loudspeaker suspended without pay By Tina Moore and Kate Sheehy October 25, 2020 | 4:23pm | Updated Enlarge Image NYPD Alexandra Schuler/picture alliance via Getty Images MORE ON: DONALD TRUMP President Trump is flat-out wrong on 'anarchist cities' Operation Warp Speed is an 'unprecedented' success and other commentary Trump signs pumpkins and hats for supporters at Maine campaign stop Trump holds raucous New Hampshire rally, Biden has quiet Sunday as election nears The NYPD cop who blared “Trump 2020” over a patrol-car loudspeaker in Brooklyn on Saturday has been suspended without pay, the Police Department said Sunday. “Suspended without pay; The police officer who is under investigation for using a department vehicle’s loud speaker for political purposes has been suspended, effective immediately,” the department tweeted. The officer, who police sources identified as Arthur Becerra of the 70th Precinct, was caught on two videos repeating “Trump 2020’’ over the loudspeaker of his squad car in Flatbush on Saturday night. A guy who was videotaping him snapped back, “Go f–k yourself, you f–king fascist” — prompting the cop to bark back over his loudspeaker, “Trump 2020. Put it on YouTube, put it on Facebook. Trump 2020.” It is against department rules for officers to express political views or endorse candidates while on duty — and condemnation for the cop was swift from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.of nassau otb where a manager was suspended for 4 days for turning on video so that bettors could watch the races. note joseph g cairo inherited his positions when trum appointed joseh mondello amambassador to trinidad & tobago.

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

kevin mccaffrey taught yrc how to be honest like nassau otbTrucker YRC Has Drawn About a Third of Its U.S. Coronavirus Aid More loan money is in the wings as congressional report questions trucker’s designation as critical to national security A tractor-trailer truck operated by less-than-truckload carrier YRC Freight, a division of YRC Worldwide. PHOTO: YRC WORLDWIDE By Jennifer Smith Oct. 19, 2020 6:49 pm ET SAVE SHARE TEXT Trucking company YRC Worldwide Inc. has drawn down just over one-third of a promised $700 million loan in coronavirus-relief funds as it prepares a spending plan that will require U.S. government approval for more aid. The cash infusion comes as a bipartisan congressional panel is raising questions about the Treasury Department’s decision to lend the money to YRC as a company critical to national security. One of the largest trucking companies in the U.S., the Overland Park, Kan.-based carrier has struggled financially for years and was trying to turn the business around when the coronavirus pandemic sparked what Treasury has called “a liquidity crisis.” NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP The Logistics Report Top news and in-depth analysis on the world of logistics, from supply chain to transport and technology. PREVIEW SUBSCRIBE The Congressional Oversight Commission has questioned the national-security designation of YRC and pressed Treasury on whether the loan was appropriate given the company’s financial difficulties before the pandemic. Treasury said it made the national-security decision based on a recommendation and guidance from the defense secretary. YRC carries 68% of the Defense Department’s less-than-truckload shipments, in which cargo from multiple shippers is combined in a single trailer, and it is the leading transportation provider to the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Treasury said in a Sept. 4 letter included in the most recent commission report. The letter said “the liquidity provided by Treasury” was related to losses incurred as a result of the coronavirus, because YRC’s sudden drop in revenue early in the pandemic prevented it from meeting health-care and pension obligations and “carrying out necessary capital expenditures.” Treasury agreed in July to loan YRC the money in exchange for a 29.6% equity stake in the company, under a provision of the $2.2 trillion Cares Act enacted in March that authorized $17 billion for companies deemed essential to national security. YRC has borrowed $245 million from a $300 million tranche designated for the payment of health, pension and other obligations, according to an August securities filing and a Treasury department spokeswoman. A YRC spokesman declined to comment further ahead of the company’s expected third-quarter earnings release in the coming weeks. As of the third quarter, YRC hadn’t requested funds from a second tranche of $400 million earmarked for buying new trucks and trailers, the Treasury spokeswoman said. That portion of the loan is subject to a capital spending plan that must be approved by Treasury every quarter based on YRC’s most recent financial and operating results and updated performance projections. MORE FROM WSJ LOGISTICS REPORT Trucker YRC Has Drawn About a Third of Its U.S. Coronavirus Aid October 19, 2020 Maersk Lifts Guidance, Will Cut 2,000 Jobs in Restructuring October 13, 2020 Surging Online Sales Drive Growth for Shopify’s Fulfillment Service October 12, 2020 “It’s going to take us probably the better part of four, maybe up to six quarters to put all $400 million to work,” YRC Chief Financial Officer Jamie Pierson said in an Aug. 3 earnings call. The Treasury Department loan will over time nearly double YRC’s debt load to around $1.6 billion, Mr. Pierson has said. The company doesn’t plan to pay the debt down during the life of the loan, intending instead to either pay it off or refinance at maturity.

Saturday, October 17, 2020

study bcg and bet remicade for death & destruction. NIH to Study Three Drugs in Treatment of Covid-19 Patients Study will evaluate whether immune modulator drugs can control patients’ dangerous ‘cytokine storms’ in response to coronavirus infection The National Institutes of Health will study the three medicines in the U.S. and Latin America in a trial expected to last up to eight months. PHOTO: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/ASSOCIATED PRESS By Thomas M. Burton Oct. 16, 2020 7:30 am ET SHARE TEXT Listen to this article2 minutes 00:00 / 01:49 WASHINGTON—The National Institutes of Health is launching a late-stage clinical trial to determine whether three drugs used for controlling immune systems could be used to treat respiratory distress and organ failure in severely ill Covid-19 patients. The NIH study will evaluate two drugs already on the market, Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ 0.62% Remicade and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. BMY 1.36% ’s Orencia, along with an investigational drug called CVC from AbbVie Inc. The study will evaluate whether any of the medicines, known as immune modulators, can control an overreaction of the patient’s systemic Covid-19 inflammatory response. This phenomenon, known as a “cytokine storm” for the proteins that trigger the inflammation, can lead to respiratory distress, multiple organ failure and other severe reactions in hospitalized patients. Cytokines are part of the body’s normal immune reaction, but one that in this instance has gone haywire. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s Orencia is one of three immune-system medicines the NIH is set to study. PHOTO: DANIEL ACKER/BLOOMBERG NEWS The study, at sites in the U.S. and Latin America, is expected to last up to eight months and will enroll about 2,100 patients. All of the patients will receive the standard-treatment antiviral drug remdesivir. Some will also get a placebo, while others will also get one of the drugs being studied. The study will evaluate whether the study drugs lower severity of disease, recovery time, death rate and use of hospital resources. Related Video Why Blood From Coronavirus Survivors Could Be a Lifeline for the Sick YOU MAY ALSO LIKE UP NEXT 0:00 / 6:11 Why Blood From Coronavirus Survivors Could Be a Lifeline for the Sick Why Blood From Coronavirus Survivors Could Be a Lifeline for the Sick A growing number of hospitals are investigating antibody testing and blood plasma therapy as a way to combat the new coronavirus in sick patients. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains. Photo illustration: Laura Kammermann Write to Thomas M. Burton at tom.burton@wsj.com Copyright ©2020 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 also uspto.gov inventor search faustma, faustmanlab.org...

Friday, October 16, 2020

greeks & nassau otb exchange words & ny const art 1 sec 3 with rockland Claude Solnik (631) 913-4244 Long Island Business News 2150 Smithtown Ave. Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays Stop scratching on holidays Published: June 1, 2012 Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays. New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state. “You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?” Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday. “I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.” OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running. One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000. Easy money. ://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/521274-new-york-jewish-congregations-sue-gov-cuomo-for-alleged-anti

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

notre dame law facult nothing but a bunch of wanna bee andrew cuomo I- Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy, if you give me a mailing address. Claude Solnik (631) 913-4244 Long Island Business News 2150 Smithtown Ave. Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays Stop scratching on holidays Published: June 1, 2012 Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays. New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state. “You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?” Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday. “I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.” OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running. One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000. Easy money. Dame colleagues call on Amy Coney Barrett to halt Supreme Court confirmation By Aaron Feis October 13, 2020 | 5:15pm Enlarge Image Amy Coney Barrett Amy Coney Barrett Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images MORE ON: AMY CONEY BARRETT Tillis cleared to appear in person at ACB hearings, joins Lee after COVID-19 bout Amy Coney Barrett 'wept' with her multiracial family after George Floyd death Barrett reveals she has no notes for confirmation hearing Amy Coney Barrett says she's made no promises to Trump Eighty-eight faculty members at the University of Notre Dame have penned an open letter to colleague and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, asking her to halt the confirmation process until after the presidential election. The group — which does not include any instructors at Notre Dame Law School, where Barrett, 48, teaches — called on her to “take this unprecedented step” in light of three considerations. “First, voting for the next president is already underway,” the letter read. “According to the United States Election Project, more than seven million people have already cast their ballots, and millions more are likely to vote before election day. “The rushed nature of your nomination process, which you certainly recognize as an exercise in raw power politics, may effectively deprive the American people of a voice in selecting the next Supreme Court justice.” Democratic lawmakers have voiced similar objections to President Trump’s decision to nominate Barrett to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just weeks before Election Day. “Next, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish was that her seat on the court remain open until a new president was installed,” the letter read. “Your nomination just days after Ginsburg’s death was unseemly and a repudiation of her legacy. “Given your admiration for Justice Ginsburg, we ask that you repair the injury to her memory by calling for a pause in the nomination until the next president is seated.” SEE ALSO Amy Coney Barrett dismisses 'female Scalia' moniker Thirdly, the group cited the overall political climate that has befallen the United States. “Finally, your nomination comes at a treacherous moment in the United States. Our politics are consumed by polarization, mistrust, and fevered conspiracy theories,” they wrote. “You have the opportunity to offer an alternative to all that by demanding that your nomination be suspended until after the election.” The letter closed with an acknowledgement that taking that step, should Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden win the election, could well mean the end of Barrett’s aspirations to sit on the highest court in the land. “We’re asking a lot, we know. Should Vice-President Biden be elected, your seat on the court will almost certainly be lost,” the group wrote. “That would be painful, surely. “Yet there is much to be gained in risking your seat,” the letter continued. “You would earn the respect of fair-minded people everywhere. You would provide a model of civic selflessness. And you might well inspire Americans of different beliefs toward a renewed commitment to the common good.” Though Democratic lawmakers have voiced concerns about Barrett’s nomination over the timing and questions of whether she could have a role in deciding the fate of the election, her confirmation is seen as a near-inevitability in the Republican-controlled Senate. Notre Dame colleagues call on Amy Coney Barrett to halt Supreme Court confirmation By Aaron Feis October 13, 2020 | 5:15pm Enlarge Image Amy Coney Barrett Amy Coney Barrett Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images MORE ON: AMY CONEY BARRETT Tillis cleared to appear in person at ACB hearings, joins Lee after COVID-19 bout Amy Coney Barrett 'wept' with her multiracial family after George Floyd death Barrett reveals she has no notes for confirmation hearing Amy Coney Barrett says she's made no promises to Trump Eighty-eight faculty members at the University of Notre Dame have penned an open letter to colleague and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, asking her to halt the confirmation process until after the presidential election. The group — which does not include any instructors at Notre Dame Law School, where Barrett, 48, teaches — called on her to “take this unprecedented step” in light of three considerations. “First, voting for the next president is already underway,” the letter read. “According to the United States Election Project, more than seven million people have already cast their ballots, and millions more are likely to vote before election day. “The rushed nature of your nomination process, which you certainly recognize as an exercise in raw power politics, may effectively deprive the American people of a voice in selecting the next Supreme Court justice.” Democratic lawmakers have voiced similar objections to President Trump’s decision to nominate Barrett to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just weeks before Election Day. “Next, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish was that her seat on the court remain open until a new president was installed,” the letter read. “Your nomination just days after Ginsburg’s death was unseemly and a repudiation of her legacy. “Given your admiration for Justice Ginsburg, we ask that you repair the injury to her memory by calling for a pause in the nomination until the next president is seated.” SEE ALSO Amy Coney Barrett dismisses 'female Scalia' moniker Thirdly, the group cited the overall political climate that has befallen the United States. “Finally, your nomination comes at a treacherous moment in the United States. Our politics are consumed by polarization, mistrust, and fevered conspiracy theories,” they wrote. “You have the opportunity to offer an alternative to all that by demanding that your nomination be suspended until after the election.” The letter closed with an acknowledgement that taking that step, should Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden win the election, could well mean the end of Barrett’s aspirations to sit on the highest court in the land. “We’re asking a lot, we know. Should Vice-President Biden be elected, your seat on the court will almost certainly be lost,” the group wrote. “That would be painful, surely. “Yet there is much to be gained in risking your seat,” the letter continued. “You would earn the respect of fair-minded people everywhere. You would provide a model of civic selflessness. And you might well inspire Americans of different beliefs toward a renewed commitment to the common good.” Though Democratic lawmakers have voiced concerns about Barrett’s nomination over the timing and questions of whether she could have a role in deciding the fate of the election, her confirmation is seen as a near-inevitability in the Republican-controlled Senate. would have helped kill ny pml sec 109

carle campanile & nypost obtain & publish all otb loan foregiveness applicationsBUSINESSCORONAVIRUS SBA now forgiving PPP loans, simplifies applications for $50,000 or less The new form, 3508S, is two pages, down The new form, 3508S, is two pages, down from the three-page 3508EZ, which was introduced in June. Credit: U.S. Small Business Administration By James T. Madore james.madore@newsday.com @JamesTMadore Updated October 9, 2020 5:52 PM PRINT SHARE The U.S. Small Business Administration has started forgiving PPP loans of all amounts and cut the number of pages on the forgiveness application for small loans, officials announced Friday. The agency began approving applications for the forgiveness of Paycheck Protection Program loans and making payments to banks and other lenders on behalf of the affected borrowers on Oct. 2, said SBA administrator Jovita Carranza. Loans may be completely forgiven if the borrower abided by the employment and spending requirements of the PPP, the federal government’s flagship coronavirus-relief program for businesses and nonprofits. The forgiven portion of the federally guaranteed loan is repaid by the Department of Treasury. With PPP loans that aren’t fully forgiven, the borrower pays 1% interest and has up to five years to pay back the lender. The loans are for up to $10 million per borrower. The Administrator of the Small Business Administration Jovita The Administrator of the Small Business Administration Jovita Carranza looks on during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 2, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Credit: AFP via Getty Images/MANDEL NGAN Carranza said SBA has again streamlined the forgiveness application for those with PPP loans of $50,000 or less. The new form, 3508S, is two pages, down from the three-page 3508EZ, which was introduced in June. The new forgiveness application may be found at nwsdy.li/PPPloan. Get the Biz Briefing newsletter! The latest LI business news in your inbox Monday through Friday. Sign upBy clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. "The new form introduced today demonstrates our relentless commitment to using every tool in our toolbelt to help small businesses and the banks that have participated in this program," Carranza said. SBA also has modified the requirement that forbids borrowers from reducing their head count or employee wages to be eligible for full loan forgiveness. Those with loans of $50,000 or less are "exempt from any reductions in loan forgiveness amounts" even if they made "reductions in full-time equivalent employees or in employee salaries or wages," states the procedures issued by the agency on Friday. The change potentially affects 3.6 million of the 5.2 million PPP loans, or 70%. Loans of $50,000 or less total $62 billion, or 12% of the total $525 billion lent via the PPP from April 3 until the program ended on Aug. 8, according to data from SBA and the Treasury Department, which oversee the PPP. "SBA believes that most borrowers would not be affected" by the change in eligibility for complete loan forgiveness "because the borrowers did not reduce full-time equivalent employees or reduce employee salaries or wages," the agency's procedures state. Forgiveness applications should be submitted to the lender, not SBA. They should be submitted within 10 months of exhausting the loans funds and all funds must be used by Dec. 31. Locally, more than 64,500 PPP loans were made in the four congressional districts that encompass most of Long Island. Newsday secured a $10 million loan in April. Sign up to get COVID-19 text alerts. Headshot of Newsday employee James T. Madore on By James T. Madore james.madore@newsday.com @JamesTMadore James T. Madore writes about Long Island business news including the economy, development, and the relationship between government and business. He previously served as Albany bureau chief.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

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Claude Solnik
Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 

Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays

Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012



Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.

‘COVIDIOT’ for returning to the White House so soon

CNN’s Chris Cuomo slammed President Trump Monday night for returning to the White House just a few days after testing positive for COVID-19 and going to Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment. Trump announced on Twitter Friday morning that he and the First Lady had tested positive, and on Monday, in a tweet in which he told his followers not to be afraid of COVID-19, he announced he was heading home.
“‘I hold rallies and I tell you to ignore masks, and I rip mine off as I vanquish the virus because I am a leader. Fear not COVID,’” Cuomo said mockingly. “What a bunch of bulls***.”
Cuomo also harped on the fact that Trump returned to a White House that has seen multiple staff members now test positive, including some in the president’s inner circle.
“The White House is literally what we fear the most: A rash of contagion called a cluster. You want a metaphor, you got a president who is a drunk driver who is pushing others to drive drunk,” Cuomo said, later adding, “You saw him tonight highly contagious. He has to be. It is the science of it. I know he was in the hospital. I know he had 24-hour care. I know they gave him two experimental treatments. But it was ‘no big deal.’”
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Cuomo also said that Trump’s actions, including insisting on a ride to wave to his supporters with Secret Service agents in the vehicle, putting them at risk, have made him lose any compassion he might have had for the president and what he’s going through with the illness. That, coupled with the fact that Trump immediately removed his mask for a photo op upon returning to the White House on Monday.
“I loved seeing him do that victory lap in that limo. Thank God. You know why? I knew that meant he has to be okay. Not the people who were in there with him. PPE up to their nose. Now they gotta quarantine. He doesn’t give a damn,” Cuomo said. “And now I don’t have to feign any extra measure of compassion. Because he went out there, whatever happens now is on him. The White House is a cluster. He returned to a cluster and took his mask off.”
And Cuomo borrowed a trending topic on Twitter, #COVIDIOT, to properly express himself.
“That is COVIDIOCY. He’s a COVIDIOT,” Cuomo said. “‘Ah, you’re disrespecting the president.’ No, he disrespects the presidency. All that’s left is the residue of outrage, because that’s the only emotion I have

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Claude Solnik
Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 

Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays

Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012


Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”

Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.








Former first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday slammed President Trump as “racist” for talking about violence at recent anti-police brutality protests and for saying he defended the suburbs against low-income housing.
Obama said in a 26-minute video touting Democratic candidate Joe Biden that Republicans are “stoking fears about black and brown Americans, lying about how minorities will destroy the suburbs, whipping up violence and intimidation. And they’re pinning it all on what’s been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity.”


She continued: “Research backs it up, only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all. So what the president is doing is once again patently false, it’s morally wrong. And yes, it is racist. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.”
Trump, recovering at the White House after three nights in the hospital for COVID-19 treatment, did not immediately return fire on Twitter.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Samantha Zager said, “These baseless attacks from a former First Lady only prove Joe Biden has yet to shore up support from Black Americans after taking their votes for granted and failing minority communities for decades.”



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In recent public remarks, Trump said he’s done more for blacks than any president since Abraham Lincoln, who defeated the slave states in the Civil War. He routinely cites his 2018 criminal justice reform law, “opportunity zone” incentives for urban renewal and permanent funding for historically black universities.
In condemning riots following the May killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police, Trump highlighted the impact of arson and looting on black-owned businesses. And he defended as good for all races his repeal of an Obama administration policy that he said would have forced low-income housing into suburbs.
“Thirty percent of the people in the suburbs are minorities. And so, we’re ruining this American dream for everybody,” Trump said of the repealed policy last week at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota.

Nassau OTB adopts Trump’s 

payroll tax pause


And they’re off — to getting a temporary bump in their take-home pay.
The Nassau County Off-Tracking Betting Corporation has taken up President Trump’s call and is giving workers a pause in paying the 6.2 percentpayroll tax, which funds Social Security.
The move will provide OTB employees more take-home pay in the short term during the COVID-19 pandemic —  but they could see less weekly money in early 2021 as they pay back the tax, unless Congress decides to finance the revenue loss, which is very questionable.
Many businesses have declined to implement the payroll tax holiday despite Trump’s Aug. 8 executive order urging the action because of the potential higher tax liability for workers down the road.
The decision by Nassau OTB to embrace the temporary payroll tax relief will certainly raise eyebrows because the county-run bookie’s president, Joseph Cairo, is also chairman of the Nassau County Republican Party.
“It’s just a gimmick because you have to pay the money back,” said OTB cashier Jackson Leeds, who opposes the change.
“And it’s political because Cairo is chairman of the Nassau County Republican Party,” he added.
The Nassau OTB Management’s Sept 1 memo to workers says: “Please be advised that the ‘take home pay’ on your paycheck from now through December 31, 2020 will be higher than usual. This is because President Trump by memorandum of Aug. 8, 2020 has authorized employers to temporarily defer collection of your Social Security payroll tax (6.2%).
“The amounts may eventually be forgiven by Congress but at this time is a deferral only, and should be viewed as a short term interest free loan that must be repaid…Please be aware that this means that the `take home pay’ in your January-April 2021 paychecks will be lower than you currently receive because the regular social security amount will be deducted as well as the payback amount,” the Nassau OTB notice to workers said.
A rep for Nassau OTB, former Sen. Al D’Amato, defended the tax deferral as a good stimulus for the betting agency and its workforce.
“It makes sense. You’re paying people more and you’re not laying off workers,” said D’Amato, whose Park Strategies lobbying firm represents Nassau OTB as a client.
But the US Chamber of Commerce told the White House and congressional leaders last month that many of the nation’s major industries would decline to implement the president’s order to pause collecting the 6.2 percent payroll tax without a subsidy from Congress.
“Under current law, the EO [executive order] creates a substantial tax liability for employees at the end of the deferral period. Without Congressional action to forgive this liability, it threatens to impose serious hardships on employees who will face a large tax bill as a result of deferral,” the chamber said in an Aug. 18 letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
“If this were a suspension of the payroll tax so that employees were not forced to pay it back later, implementation would be less challenging. But under a simple deferral, employees would be stuck with a large tax bill in 2021. Many of our members consider it unfair to employees to make a decision that would force a big tax bill on them next year,” the chamber said.

Even Nassau OTB Trump supporters at Nassau OT


Enlarge ImageA protester gestures in front of a fire during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 30.
A protester gestures in front of a fire during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 30.REUTERS

Trump has slammed Biden’s record on issues impacting African-Americans, specifically highlighting Biden’s authorship of the 1994 federal crime law credited with contributing to the mass-incarceration of blacks.
Trump unveiled a so-called “Platinum Plan” for black voters at a Sept. 25 event in Atlanta, including a new clemency commission, and accused Biden of supporting trade and immigration policies and wars that harmed blacks.
“For half a century, Joe has personally advocated or enacted every policy that has caused pain and suffering to the black community,” Trump said at the event.
Angela Stanton-King, a black Republican running for Congress in Georgia after receiving a pardon from Trump in February, also rejected Obama’s accusation.
“Claiming the president is a racist didn’t work last election cycle and it won’t work this election cycle,” Stanton-King told The Post.
“I’m a former felon running for John Lewis’s seat. I’m able to do that because I received a full unconditional pardon from President Trump. Not Barack Obama. As a black woman, I can honestly say with the factual data to back my claims that President Trump and his administration has done more for Black Americans than an other president in my lifetime.”
Michelle Obama’s passionate Democratic National Convention speech in August was widely seen as a highlight of the event and she remains a popular Democratic figure ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
Trump has persistently hammered her husband former President Barack Obama’s policies and accused him of “spying” on him during the FBI investigation of possible Trump collusion with Russia. During Obama’s presidency, Trump famously questioned whether Obama was born in the US.

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