Special Buisness Development Zones & The Suoz's Bankroll

[Real Journalist]

What a twisted case huh? The county attorney's office is now defending those policies that suozzi called smoke and mirror budget tricks because suozzi is using the same ones - and then some! Apparently, the industrial development agency (IDA) was set up by gulotta to attract business to long island and one of those businesses - goya - set up on the grumman property (which I believe, didn't suozzi claim he sold for $50 million to a private party and then went to Washington - why did he go - why didn't he send the legislative liaison? - to get $2 million dollars to clean up the grumman property (what the hell?).
ANYWAY - the deal under gulotta to get goya to move there was that instead of getting a tax refund for successfully challenging the real property tax - they could take the "refund" in terms of tax credits. The county wouldn't have to pay now - but wouldn't collect anything later. A wash. Suozzi liked this part. And he kept it. He also then used IDA - according to the NY Times - to give these credits only to political contributors and local cronies (which was not done - to such extremes - under Gulotta). So suozzi kept it and expanded it - making what he termed an already corrupt system
even more corrupt.
Now it seems, the Bethpage school district is challenge the payment in lieu of taxes pact claiming that the school district has to pay more taxes because it doesn't have goya picking up the slack -
Forchelli (who else) represents goya and the county attorney is now arguing that gulotta's system is
"beneficial for the community". NYLJ March 22 !
Meanwhile suozzi says - he ended the part of the program that allowed giving credits in lieu of payments.
Meaning - now when they pay and then challenge and inevitably win their tax assessments - the county MUST pay the refunds. BUT the county HASN"T been paying them - since suozzi - they have just been multiplying - big refunds - and accumulating and the time is ticking for the bond clearances to expire.
I guess it's only bad and bringing the county toward bankruptcy during a democrat's campaign speach - or if you read newsday




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cunty aty defends gulotta
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:05 pm



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Let me start off by laughing.

That article said there are 30 PILOT companies out there now (IE: under the credit for refund pact) and HALF of them are Suozzi companies - HALF of them got their deals AFTER Suozzi took office.

So basically - Suozzi campaigned on the premise that this was dirty politics, bad economic budgeting, leading toward bankruptcy

got elected

used the same system and set-up 15 companies with this same system - companies that all made political contributions to him-

THEN he got rid of the system (or claims he has, maybe it's like his Nassau County residency requirement - it's a requirement UNLESS he exempts someone from it)

Now he's being sued on it and his County Attorney is defending it saying it's "beneficial for the community" AND the Gulotta system has so far been upheld in court against the school system.



And isn't it true - that to take the heat off himself for causing the tax & fee increase disaster without giving anybody a chance to breath or first straighten out the assessment problems - he tried to put all the blame on the towns and schools thinking the residents would start fighting with them BUT

apparently this has backfired because (are you reading this TOM?)
WE AREN'T SO STUPID AS YOU THINK WE ARE AND YOU ARE ESPECIALLY STUPID TO MESS WITH OUR SCHOOLS

So now it appears - one at a time - the schools are taking revenge and going after the COUNTY

and IF they win - these paper "credits" may become actual dollars owed as tax refunds to businesses who will now start to pay actual taxes - in theory - in reality - Suozzi will only succeed in watching MORE businesses move out of Nassau County because they WONT pay these high taxes and all we'll have left are high rise apartment tenament buildings filled with illegal aliens and welfare recipients, Suozzi's $1.5 million dollar subdivided home and the zoo he's building in Charles Wang Town.


Yeah - I'm gonna vote for the guy in 2005!

Read the following excerpt and you tell me if this is sounding strangely familiar. Is this who Suozzi got the idea from to run all over Nassau County on the economic development tour, (which is currently under criticism by the Feds who believe it is AGAIN an improper way to spend HUD money), talking about breaking down Nassau County into economic development zones to build up their "downtown" areas? I mean, is Suozzi actually suggesting the same type of re-development plans that Reinharz suggested for the ROCKAWAYS, (which even QUEENS rejected) for our SUBurburan Towns and Villages in Nassau County? It sure sounds like Suozzi is committed to Reinharz's proposal of making our Nassau County into the City's 6th borough doesn't it?
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Peter Reinharz, the author of " Still A Ghost Town" published in the "City Journal" suggested that Rockaway be rezoned to "encourage private development" and that the city should "send its economic development officials across the country beating the drums about the potential commercial opportunities." In the very same paragraph the author suggests that Rockaway "would give the Hamptons a run for their money." He goes on to suggest that an oceanfront mall might get shoppers from the "affluent" Five Towns. He adds that tearing down the public housing in Rockaway would be "necessary."

A responding editorial printed in The Wave Publishing Co. on August 28, 1999 blasted Reinharz, (who holds an unused undergraduate degree in economics - much like his unused law degree), saying: "with money from the Hope VI grant pouring into the projects that won’t happen.

So, our point? There’s no point in making suggestions that don’t have a prayer.

And sadly, Reinharz says things look promising because Mayor Giuliani has an "Arverne plan." He does? Well, Reinharz pointed to the $7 million the city was "chipping in" for new sewers and sidewalks in the Arverne Renewal Area.

That’s a plan?

Charles Gargano, the State’s economic czar said, 'in order for this project to come to fruition, it would require a very significant amount of public subsidy from both the State and City of New York for infrastructure and other off-site improvements.'

He went on to question whether the "return" on such an investment would be worth it.

As we’ve said for months and months, Technodome will not happen.

The editorial continues "we would like to see "economic officials beat the drums" about the potential of the area. Perhaps the drums should be beat in Silicon Valley. With the vast amounts of money being made in high-tech maybe some venture capitalists will hear the drums and want to build a high-tech center close the ocean and within shouting distance of

Manhattan and Wall Street...

That’s less of a pipe dream than Technodome and tearing down housing projects."

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Now I ask you - shouldn't Newsday have written a similar editorial about Suozzi's recent proposals - the Zoo, the Acquarium, the Preserve, the raising of Hempstead Turnpike for a sky tram, Wang's 60 story tower, low-income high rise apartment buildings, residential apartments over storefronts on main avenues like Jericho Turnpikes, Hempstead village as "a college town" before cleaning up the gang and drug problems and the run-down welfare projects .................................................. ...............?

Suozzi wants to push all the museums, parks and cultural centers to the North Shore, where he and his kind could use and appreciate them, while shifting the poor, working class and illegal immigrants and his labor camps down South - where "those people" belong. If re-elected, Suozzi promises his wealthy friends that he will then cut off South Nassau County from North Nassau County, and sell those Southerners off to Queens, as long as the NYC Mayor gives him a leasehold for the development of his high rise apartment buildings.



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[Buried in the Media]

Newsday had this small article buried in the back of the paper - I guess Knight's new (consumer advocate) forced the editors to print it. Or maybe, they weren't sure if they could spin it positively.
Suozzi's plans for an empire development zone sound suspiciously like another IDA scam.

It affects only the minority comunities - south shore residents and his beloved Glen Cove - the City Being Pushed into the Sea by Suozzi boy. Goes to show you - he's so arrogant not only does he think he as the CE race wrapped up - but the Glen Covers in his pocket too.

Specifically - Glen Cove, New Castle (where Kaiman kicked the old lady out of her home - the home she ran a community church from), Freeport, THE COLISEUM AREA - THAT'S WANG'S WORLD- , Hempstead (where his BOE workers unlawfully campaigned on County Time for Mayor Hall), Roosevelt, Elmont (they want to run the Pakistani community activist from there for Legislator), Inwood (part of Inwood is Queens) and Bethpage.

There's a picture of him with the Freeport Mayor - the Mayor is pulling away from him and looking at him with a look that if looks could kill - Suozzi would be dead. Suozzi is, of course, oblivious to all things.

There are other Empire Zones in the State of New York.

According to Newsday - these special patronage mills - where industrial factories crop up and bring in cheap labor (just the type of people you want more of - hanging around your neighborhood) and overpopulate an already unwelcoming housing market -

they already exist.

IN SOUTH JAMAICA AND FAR ROCKAWAY.

Yes people it's true - Suozzi isn't wasting any time in bringing the Rockaways to Nassau County. Even Queens protested what Suozzi is going to do to us.

And he says the GOPERS want Nassau to be the 6th Borough.

Suozzi is walking poison.

[Tax Breaks]

Oh yeah - and the best part is those residents get to pay even HIGHER taxes, thanks to Suozzi because the deal for these Suozzi selected businesses is that they get sizable tax breaks. Up to $250,000 in fully refundable annual tax credits if they have up to $20 million in non-taxable income (foreign based tech companies perhaps )? and doubles existing tax credits from 9 to 18 percent - already included in next year's state tax budget. That's why it is VITAL get rid of Suozzi NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Glen Cove Realtor]

Sucked into downtown Glen Cove with all the tax breaks and then puff they lost their entire business. Glen Cove's most viewed siage is "Space Available"!

[GUEST AGAIN]

Swezy's Department store in Glen Cove was given tax breaks also but the entire chain was driven out of business when it's Glen Cove store failed so miserably. Thanks Tom another fine old business destroyed because of your lies!