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One Edition for ALL of Queens! Visit Our Website at PAGE 2 the QUEENS TIMES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 QUEENS TIPublished forM the BoroughES of Queens VOLUME 24, NO. 36 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 25 CENTS SCAM ALERT Rep. Meng Meets With Queens College Interim Bogus Letters Demanding President and Welcomes Incoming students Payment Sent to Taxpayers NYS Tax Department assures recipients letters are fake The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has alerted taxpayers to fake letters that demand immediate payment for an outstanding tax debt and threaten revocation of passports and driver licenses if the warning is ignored. The return address on this letter, which was sent to at least one person, is: Tax Processing Center Internal Processing Service Public Judgement Records The letter states that the recipient has failed to respond to prior notices, demands full payment by a specific date, and provides an 888 number to call to avoid having personal property levied and sold. It also threatens to revoke the recipient’s driver license and passport. “This is a common scam in which the recipient is threatened out of the blue with punitive action unless payment—in this case, $12,444 —is made immediately,” said New York State Commis- sioner of Taxation and Finance Michael Schmidt. “In contrast, our department works with taxpayers who have existing tax debt, such as by establishing an installment payment agreement, to resolve (Continued on page 2) Test of Popular Cellphones For Radiofrequency Radiation Pictured above is Congresswoman Grace Meng meeting with Queens College Interim President Now the FCC is investigating William Tramontano with during her visit to the Tech Incubator at Queens College. See story on page 2. Rikers Island Inmates Will Go Here When Jails Close By Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune, by the Tribune and conducted Aug 21, 2019 according to federal guidelines at an accredited lab, produced The Apple iPhone 7 was set a surprising result: Radiofre- to operate at full power and se- quency radiation exposure from cured below a tub of clear liquid, the iPhone 7 — one of the most specially formulated to simulate popular smartphones ever sold human tissue. — measured over the legal safety With the push of a button, a limit and more than double what robotic arm swung into action, Apple reported to federal regula- The plan calls for shuttering the troubled jail complex in the next seven years and developing sending a pencil-thin probe dip- tors from its own testing. new, smaller facilities to house the city’s jail population. | Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo, via pool ping into the tub. For 18 min- The Federal Communications utes, it repeatedly measured the Commission, which is responsible Rikers Island’s inmates will plan to construct four new jail out by criminal justice activists amount of radiofrequency radia- for regulating phones, states on move to one of three existing jails facilities to replace Rikers Island who oppose the development of tion the liquid was absorbing from its website that if a cellphone has or a new one in the Bronx when won City Planning Commission any new jails. the cellphone. the infamous jail complex closes, approval, in a vote 7 in favor and 3 This test, which was paid for (Continued on page 2) the de Blasio administration’s against, that was nearly drowned (Continued on page 2) One Edition for ALL of Queens! Visit our website at www.queenstimes.com PAGE 2 THE QUEENS TIMES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 SCAM ALERT Bogus Letters Demanding Payment Sent to Taxpayers (Continued from page 1) • an option to respond online, by to the Tax Department and IRS phone, or by mail; online or by phone. We will review the issue. We also work with all • the Tax Department website your complaint promptly and, if levels of law enforcement to bring address; appropriate, take corrective action. the fraudsters who commit these • a detailed explanation for why If you receive a suspicious types of crimes to justice.” it was sent; and letter that claims to be from the The Tax Department also routinely • an explanation of your rights as NYS Tax Department, contact explains a taxpayer’s right to chal- a taxpayer. the Tax Department by phone lenge a bill or notice, or other Learn more about letters sent (518-451-1566) or email (dtfoia@ departmental actions, and offers from the Tax Department Respond tax.ny.gov). several ways to pay a bill. to a letter webpage. Scammers have also claimed How to spot a fake collection Report impersonation scams to be from the New York State letter Con artists will often try to Treasury. If you receive one of The Tax Department never impersonate representatives from these calls, notify the agency at threatens arrest or revocation of the Tax Department or IRS. If 1-800-771-7755. passports. A legitimate letter from you receive a suspicious letter The Federal Trade Commission the department will include: from someone claiming to be an (FTC) should also be alerted. You • Tax Department logo; employee of either agency, it’s can file a complaint on the FTC • a complete return mailing ad- critical that you report it. website or by calling 1-877-FTC- dress; You can report possible scams HELP (1-877-382-4357). Test of Popular Cellphones For Radiofrequency Radiation (Continued from npage 1) most comprehensive independent for compliance with FCC rules,” investigations of its kind, and agency spokesman Neil Grace been approved for sale, the device the results raise questions about said.” “will never exceed” the maximum whether cellphones always meet “Some researchers say safety allowable exposure limit. But safety standards set up to protect efforts have not kept pace. ‘These this phone, in an independent lab the public. days,” said Om Gandhi, an early inspection, had done exactly that. After reviewing the lab reports researcher of cellphone radiation The Tribune tested three from the Tribune’s tests, the FCC at the University of Utah, “expo- more brand-new iPhone 7s at said it would take the rare step of sure is from cradle to grave.’” full power, and these phones also conducting its own testing over “These testing methods didn’t measured over the exposure limit. the next couple of months. address the anatomy of children In all, 11 models from four com- “We take seriously any claims and that of other vulnerable popu- panies were tested, with varying on non-compliance with the lations, such as pregnant women, results. RF (radiofrequency) exposure said Joel Moskowitz, a cellphone The Tribune’s testing, though standards and will be obtaining expert at the University of Cali- limited, represents one of the and testing the subject phones fornia at Berkeley.” Rep. Meng Meets With Queens College Interim Subscribe to the President and Welcomes Incoming students (Continued from page 1) made possible with her support and said. “I have tremendous pride in Queens Times launched jointly with LaGuardia CUNY and Queens College and During the visit that Congress- Community College earlier this how much you contribute to our Your Local Newspaper-One Edition for All Of Queens woman Meng had with Queens year in May. borough and state.” College Interim President Tramon- “Initiatives like this are really The center serves immigrant Just $28.50 per year... and have the paper tano they discussed how federal important for our city, state and entrepreneurs and other underrep- delivered to your door by US Mail policies can support the incubator’s our country. CUNY and Queens resented populations of Flushing, efforts to create new products, de- College has done a great job, but with services currently offered Please Enter my Subscription For One Year velop new ideas and grow business. you hear all the time about need- in English and Mandarin. It is Congresswoman Meng also ing to prioritize and increasing the the third SBDC in the borough Name .............................................................................. toured the campus’s small busi- strength of our workforce develop- of Queens, and the ninth in New ness development center that was ment here in this country,” Meng York City. Address .......................................................................... City..................................................Zip........................... Rikers Island Inmates Will Go Here When Jails Close Please make check payable to: Queens Times and mail to: (Continued from page 1) tion for borough president taking open and expand the jails as a 11-20 154th Street, Whitestone, NY 11357 shape in Queens, in anticipation single land-use application to the Commissioners Orlando Marín, of Melinda Katz potentially leav- City Council under an agreement Raj Rampershad and Fred Cerullo ing the position to serve as district with Speaker Corey Johnson. That — appointed to the body by the attorney. could speed up de Blasio’s 10-year Bronx, Queens and Staten Island The Manhattan Detention Com- timeline to close Rikers. borough presidents, respectively plex in Chinatown, the Brooklyn The official plans for smaller jails — voted against the proposal. Detention Complex in Downtown mark another major step toward While the local Council mem- Brooklyn, the now-shuttered moving the city’s inmates out bers who will ultimately need Published every week by C.T. Publishing Corp. Queens Detention Complex in of the 85-year-old Rikers com- to green-light the proposal have Executive Office: 108-59 49th Avenue, Corona Heights, NY 11368 Kew Gardens and a new jail at plex notorious for its isolation, been generally supportive of the Operations: 11-20 154th Street, Whitestone, NY 11357 the site of the NYPD’s Bronx tow violence and mismanagement, a closure plan, the range of contin- pound in Mott Haven will replace Phone (718) 592-2196 • FAX (718) 606-8202 process de Blasio started last year. ued opposition remains a hurdle Rikers’ nine jails once the island’s But it’s also likely to set off the ef- Web Site: www.queenstimes.com to its final approval.
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