Former Hempstead Town councilman to be released from prison

                                                                              

From the U.S. Bureau of Prisons

Former Hempstead Town Councilman Ed Ambrosino should be out of prison Saturday and headed back to Nassau County, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

That's when the North Valley Stream Republican will have completed his six-month prison term in the minimum-security lock-up in Fort Dix, NJ.

Ambrosino still faces three years supervised release.

He was sentenced Nov. 15, 2019 and began serving his sentence Sept. 15, 2020.

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).  

Ed Ambrosino

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.

Earlier, he served as counsel to the Republican majority on the county legislature in the late 1990s. After the GOP lost the majority in 2000, he was appointed to the Hempstead Town Board in 2003. He resigned from the board when he pleaded guilty to the one count of tax evasion in a deal with federal prosecutors.

He was originally charged with wire fraud and eight counts of failing to pay appropriate taxes for 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Republican insiders said at the time that federal prosecutors were pressing Ambrosino for information to bolster their case against Mangano, who was facing corruption charges involving Oyster Bay concessionaire Harendra Singh. But Ambrosino reportedly told colleagues he had nothing to give them.

Mangano was convicted in 2019 of taking bribes from Singh in return for helping the restaurateur obtain loan guarantees from the Town of Oyster Bay. Mangano's wife was found guilty on related charges. Both are appealing their convictions, contending Singh lied under oath.


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