Nassau OTB board reshuffled: politics still rule

                                                                        


Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman has recomended two new appointments to the three-member board of Nassau's Off-track betting corporation:

Daniel J. Lang of Levittown and Jim Moriarty of Long Beach.

The two would replace Joseph Bentivegna of Levittown and Eric Harkin of Wantagh. 

Frank DeStefano, a Farmingdale Republican who has served on the Nassau Downs OTB board since 2010, will remain.

The Republican-controlled legislature is expected to approve the new appointments on Monday.

Although the names are new, the politics haven't changed.

State law requires at least one of the three belong to different political party.

DeStefano is a retired Oyster Bay parks commissioner who served in the early 1970s as the Nassau GOP committee's press secretary.

Bentivegna was a former Hempstead Deputy Parks commissioner  who was close to the late Nassau Republican chairman Joseph Mondello as leader of Mondello's Levittown West Republican club. Bentivegna died in June at the age of 92.

Harkin, a Hempstead Town Parks employee, was a member of the Independence party when appointed in 2010. He also is the son-in-law of Mondello's longtime secretary and assistant Julie Maier.

New appointee Lang is a park supervisor in the Town of Hempstead and is also vice chairman of the Nassau Conservative Party.

Moriarty, a former spokesman for the Town of Oyster Bay, is the Long Beach Republican leader.

OTB has long been considered patronage stronghold for the party in power. The OTB board appoints the president of the agency.

After Republicans regained the majority on the county legislature in 2010, they put Bentivegna, DeStefano and Harkin on the OTB Board. The new board immediately voted to replace the then Democratic OTB president Dino Amoroso with Joe Cairo, then second in command of the Nassau Republican party.

Cairo is now chairman of the Nassau GOP.

Think the new members will support him?


Comments

  1. leonardeulerAugust 6, 2023 at 10:20 PM

    Nassau otb violates bettors ny const art 1 sec 3 rights by closing on 1 Easter Sunday in preference to the other. Joseph g Cairo just another holy Hochul

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  2. leonardeulerAugust 6, 2023 at 10:22 PM

    Notice Nassau itb employees never notified of these director changes. Nassau otb is a politician benefit corporation not a public benefit corporation,
    Do not forget Cairo’s friend Kevin mccaffrey Suffolk county legislator president of teamsters local 707 pension trustee etc
    There is no union st nassau otb

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  3. leonardeulerAugust 6, 2023 at 10:24 PM

    Send a number and will send you James moriarity’s resume
    Turnips or potato’s the Nassau oTB board of directors

    ReplyDelete
  4. leonardeulerAugust 6, 2023 at 10:57 PM

    Nassau otb is so inept or indifferent that bettors cannot on Saturday buy Sunday’s program or racing form. Demand exceeds supply
    Let’s go Mets 1063 Hempstead turnpike Franklin square

    ReplyDelete
  5. leonardeulerSeptember 13, 2023 at 1:11 PM

    Nassau otb employees et al still have not received minutes of august 11 board meeting which approved a retirement incentive buyou details unknown

    ReplyDelete
  6. leonardeulerSeptember 13, 2023 at 1:48 PM

    Despite all of Nassau OTb’s high priced fo nothing lobbyists beliw case has not been legislatively overruled so bettors may bet flat tracks whenever wherever they wish. Suffolk county legislator and teamsters local 707 shills for joe Cairo to otb employees

    FindLaw Caselaw
    https://caselaw.findlaw.com › ny-co...
    IN RE: SUFFOLK REGIONAL OFF-TRACK BETTING CORPORATION ...
    Case opinion for NY Court of Appeals IN RE: SUFFOLK REGIONAL OFF-TRACK BETTING CORPORATION. Read the Court's full decision on FindLaw.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 24, 2024 at 11:00 PM

    Why did James Vincent moriarty leave Nassau otb to become Republican election commissioner?
    Why has the Nassau county legislature not replaced James Vincent moriarity with a new oTB Director? See ny PML sec 502

    ReplyDelete
  8. AnonymousOctober 24, 2024 at 11:02 PM

    Who will win the James v Kathleen moriarity divorce settlement?
    Is Kathleen’s contsctbinfotmation publicly available on the internet for free?

    ReplyDelete

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