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The ponies didn’t pay

Joseph Cairo, who is slated to take over leadership of the Nassau Republican Party once longtime chairman Joseph Mondello departs to assume a U.S. ambassadorship, also came up in Singh’s testimony Thursday.

Singh said he talked to Cairo as part of a lobbying effort to provide food at Nassau’s OTB in Hempstead Town.

He got a contract, but kept it for only three or four months, Singh testified. “We were losing money,” he said.

The concession was making about $200 or $300 a day — which, Singh said, “was not enough to cover the cost of the food.”

By Joye Brownjoye.brown@newsday.com