please reply here

I believe I have the righ to have my taxes deferred

what say those or drink, work or frequent copeys

please note that the last head of the nassau county republican county was promoted to be ambassador of trinidad and tobagoand the feds be creeping all over the town ofhempstead

it is worse than obscene that three nassau branches were closed september 4 -7 as church hill rain and saratog was cloing

what do copleys regulars have say be they employees, cops, pagans or simply those that bet horses
please consider putting up the two most famouse bikers for trump, rududy giuluani and al d 'amamto

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Of all the declared presidential candidates, none has been in costume more than Rudy Giuliani. This picture, representing Giuliani's early work, shows a man struggling to embrace his full aesthetic sensibility. As a U.S. attorney in 1986, Giuliani went "undercover" with Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (right) to show how easy it was to buy crack in New York. Wearing a Hell's Angels black leather vest with patches that read "Dirty Thirty" and "Filthy Few," the future mayor purchased two vials for $20. Apparently, New York crack dealers were sampling their own product. Giuliani's casual-Friday trousers and gold belt buckle make him look more like a man who wants to sell homeowners insurance than a drug addict. And the post-
cataract-surgery glasses aren't very menacing, either.

Nassau OTB adopts Trump’s payroll tax pause

By Carl Campanile

September 7, 2020 | 3:13pm | Updated

REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger

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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.

“It would also be unworkable to implement a system where employees make this decision. Therefore, many of our members will likely decline to implement deferral, choosing instead to continue to withhold and remit to the government the payroll taxes required by law. We hope Congress and the Administration come together on a path that supports workers instead of burdening hardworking Americans with a large tax bill next year.”

A spokesman for Nassau OTB said it was the management’s decision to suspend collection of the payroll tax cut after consulting with workers.

Owner of bar in Pagans v. police brawl sues city, cops, mayor on excessive force claims

TORSTEN OVE

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

tove@post-gazette.com

APR 17, 2020

2:36 PM

The owner of a South Side bar in which undercover city police officers and members of the Pagans biker gang brawled in October 2018 has sued the officers, their chief and the mayor, saying the police started the fight and have a history of abusing people while their leaders have condoned it.

Stephen R. Kopy, owner of Kopy's Bar, said in the federal court suit that the officers escalated a tense situation with the Pagans before the brawl erupted on Oct. 12, 2018, ignoring him when he told them the bikers weren't causing any trouble as they played pool in a back room.

When the punching began, he said an officer pepper-sprayed him without cause as he tried to shield other patrons. Later, he said, another officer tried to cover police actions by destroying a surveillance video of the incident, not realizing that copies had already been given to other parties, including lawyers for the Pagans.

To bolster his claims, Mr. Kopy and his lawyer, George Farneth, cited numerous other incidents of alleged abuse by Pittsburgh police, many of which have resulted in federal lawsuits.

The officers, according to the suit, "conspired and acted in concert with each other" to deprive him of his civil rights in the wake of the brawl. Chief Scott Schubert and Mayor William Peduto also made defamatory statements in defending the police and labeling his establishment as a "biker bar" and nuisance bar when it is neither, Mr. Kopy said.

In addition to the mayor, the chief and the city of Pittsburgh, the suit names Officers Brian Martin, Brian Burgunder, David Honick, David Lincoln, Matthew Turko, a detective identified only as Murray, and John Doe, an unknown officer.

The bikers said the officers instigated the fight after drinking all evening and into the night and then jailed them on false charges of having assaulted them. The district attorney's office withdrew the charges and several of the Pagans later filed federal lawsuits against the police.

Video of the incident shows Officer Lincoln punching one of the Pagans, Frank DeLuca, nearly 20 times in the face as another officer pins him to the bar. The FBI and the U.S. attorney's office reviewed the case for civil rights charges but said they found no basis for federal crimes.

The suit largely repeats claims Mr. Farneth and Mr. Kopy have previously made that the police were to blame and should be held accountable.

It says that the officers involved, and other city officers, have shown a pattern of abuse under the training of instructor David Wright and the supervision of Chief Schubert.

"At the direction and under the tutelage of Schubert and the City, the police are trained to be aggressive above all else, to escalate all citizen encounters so that their aggression is greater than the citizen they encounter, even when their aggression results in the use of excessive force, and to 'win' under all circumstances during citizen encounters," Mr. Farneth says in the complaint.

The suit says the police and their leaders are part of a "good old boy network" that protects police who violate civil rights with aggressive tactics and then cover their tracks with false affidavits and charges.

The suit cites numerous incidents of alleged police abuse, some of which involved officers in the Kopy's fight.

Among them are the case of Kyle Sholtis, of Uniontown, Ohio, who in a federal lawsuit filed last year said Officer Turko used a Taser on him without cause after a scuffle at the Cheerleaders club on Liberty Avenue in 2017. The suit also mentions Officer Turko in another incident in which he was accused in a federal lawsuit of beating a man during a traffic stop on the North Side in 2012. In that case, a federal court jury awarded the man $105,000 in damages.

The Kopy's suit is asking for compensatory and punitive damages and other relief, although no dollar figure is mentioned.

Spokesmen for the mayor and the police declined to comment on the suit.

First Published April 17, 2020, 2:36pm

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