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Fed. election officials want LaLota campaign to explain $18,000 of contributions

Fed. election officials want LaLota campaign to explain $18,000 of contributions

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The Riverhead Town Board this week tabled a resolution authorizing Supervisor Jerry Halpin to sign a renewed agreement with the Riverhead Central School District for two school resource officers…SROs…prolonging a dispute over who should pay for police officers assigned to the district’s high school and middle school. The vote to table the resolution was unanimous. Denise Civiletti reports on Riverheadlocal.com that the two uniformed Riverhead police officers assigned as SROs are continuing to work in the schools while the town and district continue discussions, Riverhead Superintendent Bob Hagan said yesterday. Hagan said the district remains in discussions with town officials and he is hopeful the two sides will reach a positive resolution.The decision came less than a week after Town Attorney Erik Howard told board members at a Sept. 10 work session that the school district had agreed to pay the $200,000 it budgeted for the SRO program for the 2026-27 school year. Howard said the district also agreed to pursue meetings between the Town Board and school board before the district begins budget planning for the 2027-28 school year.But board members this Tuesday said the proposed agreement still left too many questions unanswered, including how costs would be covered in future years, how overtime would be authorized and whether the cost should be borne by town taxpayers at all…especially Riverhead town taxpayers who live outside the Riverhead Central School District to help pay for officers assigned to Riverhead school buildings.Council Member Ken Rothwell said he does not want to disrupt the SRO program. “I fully support the SRO program. I want it to go forward,” he said. But he said the agreement should not leave the town in the same position next year.Under the now-expired agreement reached in 2024, the district paid 50% of the cost of one officer during the 2024-25 school year and 50% of the cost of both officers during the 2025-26 school year. The agreement also said the SROs were not to act as school disciplinarians or participate in student searches conducted by school officials.The draft before the Riverhead Town Board Tuesday, did not commit the Riverhead Central School District to paying any portion of the cost in the future. It did not obligate the town, either, Howard pointed out. ***Federal election officials want 1st Congressional District Rep. Nick LaLota’s campaign committee to explain why it has accepted more than $18,000 in potentially excessive or impermissible campaign contributions.But those issues already are being resolved, the Republican congressman from Amityville and his camp says, including by already refunding $7,000 to Stacey Siebel, the spouse of tech entrepreneur Thomas Siebel, an overage attributed to the campaign’s having two different spellings of her first name.Billy House reports in NEWSDAY that other amounts received by LaLota under Federal Election Commission scrutiny as potentially exceeding federal limits include some of the nearly $9,000 in donations listed from Ukraine-born billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, a British-American businessman who is one of the world’s richest people. There are also lesser amounts under review from Andrea Wynn, the wife of the casino billionaire Steve Wynn, and Lewis Stahl, the CEO of NextGen Management LLC.LaLota said he still maintains a 19-to-1 cash lead after the refund to Siebel. That’s a reference to the huge fundraising edge he commands with more than $3.3 million in the bank reported in latest federal filings through June 30, compared to $172,000 reported by his Democrat challenger, Chris Gallant of Amity Harbor.The FEC does not conclude that the questioned donations that date from 2025 are, in fact, excessive or prohibited, in a letter dated Tuesday to "LaLota for Congress" treasurer Thomas Datwyler.But it warns that a preliminary review of a LaLota committee financial filing "discloses one or more contributions that appear to exceed the limits." The letter gives LaLota’s campaign committee until Oct. 20 to respond, and says failure to answer "could result in an audit or enforcement action."The current contribution limit from an individual to a federal candidate is $3,500 per election. But a candidate can resolve issues of donors exceeding allowable amounts by either refunding money or redesignating some of the amounts to a different election — such as switching it as going toward a primary election versus the general.LaLota’s camp says it’s addressing the total of $18,648 now being questioned by the FEC — and was doing so even before receiving the letter.***Southampton Town announced this week that it has purchased a long-abandoned Northampton gas station property on Lake Avenue adjacent to Wildwood Lake, a move the town says removes “decades-old blight and a potential environmental hazard.”Beth Young reports in EAST END BEACON that the town closed on the $420,000 purchase on Aug. 26. The third ...
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