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Aug. 18-24, 2011 Your Neighborhood - Your News® 75 cents THE NEWSPAPER OF HOLLIS, ST. ALBANS, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, ROSEDALE & RICHMOND HILL SE Queens stays afl oat despite record rainfall Page 5 Pages 25-28 Runaway bull Cops search for S. Jamaica killer makes dash on Jamaica streets Authorities have no leads in 20-year-old’s homicide near housing projects BY CONNOR ADAMS SHEETS her home in a neighborhood resi- ene Digirolomo with a gunshot no arrests had been made in con- BY IVAN PEREIRA dents described as drug-infested, wound to her torso, police said. nection with the shooting as of A shooting early Saturday according to police. She was taken by emergency Tuesday afternoon, and police A brazen bull decided to morning left a 20-year-old South Police responded at about responders to Jamaica Hospital, said the investigation was ongo- make a run for it from a Jamaica Jamaica woman dead near the 3:24 a.m. Saturday to a 911 call re- where she was declared dead on ing. slaughterhouse last week, much South Jamaica Houses public porting a woman shot and arrived arrival, according to police. No The shooting occurred af- to the enjoyment of pedestrians housing complex just blocks from at 107-48 160th St. to find Michil- suspects had been identified and Continued on Page 15 who cheered it on. The bovine galloped through the streets of southeast Queens right around 1:30 p.m. Aug. 10 BALLIN’ IN THE U.S.A. when he broke loose from his butchers at the slaughterhouse near Tuckerton Street and Lib- erty Avenue, according to a tow truck driver who was at the scene Continued on Page 15 MAILING ADDRESS GOES HERE Elected officials, players and parents stand at attention as the National Anthem is sung at the seventh-annual Jump & Ball Basketball Tournament in St. Albans. See story on Page 3. Photo by Connor Adams Sheets A CNG Publication • Vol. 17, No. 33 2 JT Rosen bribery trial nears end Meeks explains vote Former MediSys head linked to Seminerio corruption scandal on debt lid to seniors BY IVAN PEREIRA Meeks said he voted BY IVAN PEREIRA are awaiting their own cor- in favor of the deal because ruption trials in the court. With the future of the of the long-term benefits it . 18-24, 2011 . 18-24, UG Federal prosecutors Seminerio died in economy in jeopardy due to would bring to the budget , A and the attorneys repre- federal prison earlier this a downgrade in the nation’s and the Democrats. Under senting the former head of year after he pleaded guilty credit rating, U.S. Rep. the plan, the nation’s defi- EDGER L Jamaica Hospital’s parent to setting up a consulting Gregory Meeks (D-Jamai- cits would be reduced by IMES T company are now waiting firm that was used to take ca) reassured his elderly $2.1 trillion over the next for a judge to determine money for his corrupt hos- constituents that he and his 10 years and the debt ceil- the administrator’s fate in pital deeds. fellow Democrats would not ing would be allowed to in- his bribery and corruption Bosworth reminded lead their financial futures crease between $2.1 trillion trial. Judge Jed Rakoff that Ros- to a path of ruin. and $2.4 trillion, an amount Both sides gave their en never told the FBI that The congressman vis- that would cover the U.S. final arguments in Man- he hired Seminerio as a ited the Robert Couche Se- Treasury’s borrowing hattan federal court Fri- paid consultant when they nior Center, at 137-57 Farm- needs until 2013, according day in David Rosen’s bench questioned him during the ers Blvd., Aug. 10 to brief to Meeks. case in which he has been investigation into the elect- them on his part in the debt The congressman accused of illegally paying ed officials. ceiling negotiations that said Obama and Speaker off and hiring several state But Scott Morvillo, went on in Congress. of the House John Boehner legislators, including the Rosen’s lawyer, countered Meeks told the seniors (R-Ohio) actually came to late state Assemblyman An- that the U.S. attorney’s of- at the center not to fall for an agreement during the thony Seminerio, in return fice does not have a clear- the sensationalist stories weeks of back-and-forth ne- for favorable legislation for cut case. Morvillo played that said President Barack gotiations where the coun- Jamaica Hospital. up Rosen’s 40 years of expe- Obama ended up becoming try would get more $800 rience in the Queens health the loser in the negotiations million in new revenue but care system and said that because the congressman that was quashed when the Sophisticated his dealings with the elect- said without the president’s speaker brought the plan to ed officials was not illegal making some concessions, his GOP members. men commit in any shape or form. the country would have Meeks slammed the sophisticated “There is no proof on ended up in a far worse sce- Tea Party for playing poli- the record that comes close nario. tics and killing all plans crimes. to establishing that,” he “We are lucky, given that would have benefited told Rakoff. “It’s totally cir- the current state that we the country just so mem- Michael Bosworth cumstantial evidence.” are in, that we have this bers could make a political Assistant U.S. Attorney The judge did not deliv- president,” he said. move that would benefit er his verdict following the their own interests. summations and as of press “We were two days The prosecutors con- Former MediSys CEO David Rosen is awaiting the verdict from a time Tuesday afternoon, away from defaulting on tended that the evidence federal judge in his bribery scandal. Photo by Dee Richard no decision had been made. our debt. The other side did against Rosen, who used The court indicated that he not care,” he said. to be the chief executive mation. “[Rosen] was par- lyn), a former MediSys might submit a written ver- The deal, however, did officer of MediSys, which ticularly sophisticated employee; and state Sen. dict at a later date. have a silver lining that runs Jamaica, Flushing when it came to politics. Karl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) would benefit the Demo- and Peninsula hospitals, That’s how he was able to from 2001 to the time of his Reach reporter Ivan crats, according to the showed a clear example of build a health care em- arrest . He allegedly paid Pereira by e-mail at iper- congressman. Congress corruption. pire.” Seminerio $390,000 for fa- [email protected] or by was mandated to create a “Sophisticated men Rosen has been ac- vorable legislation that phone at 718-260-4546. six-member, bipartisan, commit sophisticated cused of paying hundreds would support Jamaica U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks is de- debt-reduction committee, crimes,” Assistant U.S. At- of thousands of dollars to Hospital, according to pros- fending his decision to vote for which must create a sec- torney Michael Bosworth Seminerio; Assemblyman ecutors. the bill to raise the nation’s debt ond round of debt reduction said during his long sum- William Boyland (D-Brook- Boyland and Kruger ceiling. 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White said LL Cool rance Pierce, a Brooklyn L Allen AME Cathedral] and J was unable to attend the resident whose 15-year-old EDGER Daniel O’Connell Park LL wanted to do something event, despite having been son Terrance Jr. played in , A in St. Albans came to life in the community to give expected to make an ap- the basketball tournament UG Saturday afternoon with back. LL and the senator pearance Saturday after- Saturday. 2011 . 18-24, dozens of young athletes, grew up a few blocks from noon. “It’s good for the kids. their parents and elected here so they said work to- Carl Fuller, who lives They get to interact with officials, who were there to gether to give something in the Baisley Houses in other people and meet new celebrate their community back?” said Tai White, a Jamaica and lost his son to people,” Pierce Sr.