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Suddenly, Morristown was faced with the prospect of a legal donnybrook that would cost more than $1 million. "We knew that some of the cops stood to lose their homes to pay damages if we lost in court," says Kathleen O'Neill Margiotta, then town council president. Last November the municipality threw in the towel and settled...
CLOSE to nothing can stop Nassau County Republicans. Several years ago Nassau's own Boss Tweed, Joseph Margiotta, was convicted and sent to jail. It didn't stop the Republicans. A federal judge recently found that, for years, the party had been forcing government workers to "kickback" 1 percent of their wages to the party. The Republicans have to pay damages, but that hasn't stopped them from completely dominating local government...
Sometimes, of course, there is no sign of the Holy Ghost inside the jury room. Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Margiotta stood accused of mail fraud and extortion, and a court clerk warned prospective jurors that the trial might last four to six weeks. Richard Yurack, who had recently been laid off as a chemical salesman, had time to spare and thought the trial would be interesting, but in the course of 65 witnesses and 4,000 pages of testimony, says Yurack, the whole case "just got too complicated for some of the jurors...
...proud of Joe because he is a politician and I'm proud that I'm a politician." Thus Senator Howard Baker, 53, sounded one of his main campaign themes last week at a dinner given by New York's Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Margiotta. Hands in his pockets, exuding an easy sincerity, the Senate minority leader gave an apt demonstration of the down-home-style politics that he hopes will carry him to the presidency. Last week he became the ninth Republican to declare his candidacy...
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