Former Hempstead Councilman reports to prison

From the U.S. Bureau of Prisons

Yesterday, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons reported that Edward Ambrosino was not in custody.

This morning, as you can see, he is located at Ft. Dix FCI, a low security federal correctional instituion with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp.

Ambrosino, a former Hempstead Town councilman, had been rumored to be reporting this week, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Looks like that rumor was true.

 A Republican from North Valley Stream, Ambrosino was sentenced Nov. 15, 2019 to six months in prison for tax evasion, to be followed by three years supervised release.

He was also ordered to pay $700,000 in restitution to his former employer and $254,628 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 

“Ambrosino, a licensed attorney and elected official charged with levying taxes, abused his positions of trust and was himself a tax cheat,” stated former United States Attorney for the Eastern District Richard P. Donoghue said after the sentencing.  “This is yet another example of a public official on Long Island breaking the law, this time by failing to pay his fair share of taxes like every other citizen.”

Ambrosino, a protege of Nassau GOP Chairman Joseph Cairo, and a longtime friend of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, had been charged with failing to forward income he received  to his then law firm from two county agencies for which he worked: Nassau County Industrial Development Agency and the Nassau County Local Economic Assistance Corp.

Mangano is appealing his conviction on federal corruption charges in a different case. Mangano was found guilty by a federal jury of taking favors from restarauter Harendra Singh in return for helping him get loan guarantees from the Town of Oyster Bay.

Ambrosino pleaded guilty in April 2019 to a single county of tax evasion involving his reported earnings of $369,000 in 2013 and owing $103,000 in taxes, Newsday reported. For that year, Ambrosino did not report another $315,000 in earnings, prosecutors had said.


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