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Queens Ueens QUQUQUEENSUEENSUEENUEENSEENEENSS Volume 64, No. 136 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018 50¢ LIoning Lawyers dvisory Charged QUEENS Council Honors TODAY Mattone and — October , 2018 — ueens eaders By David Brand ELMHURST’S HOLDER ONE OF SEVERAL Queens Daily Eagle DEMOCRATS TARGETED BY BOMBER The Zoning Advisory Council met Former United States Attorney General Eric Wednesday to honor a cohort of leaders who Holder, an Elmhurst native, was one of several have helped pave the way for new development prominent Democrats who were sent explosive and city planning. devices by an unknown terrorist bomber The honorees included Joseph Mattone, the Wednesday. Read more on page 8. chief executive ofcer of the Mattone Group and the founder of the Mattone Family Institute for Real Estate Law at St. John’s Law School. Mattone, a Douglaston resident whose ofce TRIAL BEGINS FOR ALLEGED is headquartered in Whitestone, spoke with the SOUTH OZONE PARK KILLER Eagle while sitting next to State Comptroller Trial began Tuesday for Sherman Manning, Tom DiNapoli. Mattone said he asked DiNapoli a South Ozone Park resident accused of to introduce him at the event because of strong shooting and killing 20-year-old Brendan relationship, both personal and professional. Santiago in 2014. Judge Ira Margulis presides. “‘Joe Mattone’ is like a magic word around the city because so many people know him and respect him,” DiNapoli said. GLENDALE EMBEZZLER ZAC President Sheldon Lobel delivered the BUSTED IN NASSAU COUNTY opening remarks and praised the attendees as Long Island cops arrested a Glendale woman NYC Environmental Protection spokesperson Charles Sturcken (back row, left), “the people who make the city work.” Tuesday and charged her with embezzling ZAC President Sheldon Lobel (back row, right) and State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli In his opening remarks, Department of City Planning Queens Ofce Director John Young $133,600 from her employer, Patch reported. (front row, left) honored Mattone Group CEO Joseph Mattone. Eagle photo by David Brand Continued on page 20 CITY BREAKS GROUND ON SOUTHEAST QUEENS ANTI-FLOODING PROJECTS The city is moving forward with its $1.9 Disgraced amaer billion commitment to prevent fooding in Southeast Queens, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and amela Harris ets Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced Wednesday. Upgraded sewer systems are being installed in St. Albans, Months For Rosedale, Jamaica, Laurelton and Springfeld Gardens. Read more on Page 13. Sandy Fraud Case TRANSIT ADVOCATES TO QUEENS: CONGESTION PRICING FUNDS SUBWAY INSIDE: A coalition transit advocates will hit the streets in Queens today as part of citywide day of action aimed at funding a more reliable Short-Staffed subway system. The “Fix the Subway” Court Ofcers Rally coalition, which formed earlier this month, Outside ueens will call on Albany to improve the subway system through congestion pricing. Read more Courthouse Today on Page 3. SEE PAGE 2 MARRIED COUPLE Transit dvocates CONVICTED OF SEX TRAFFICKING A Queens jury convicted a married couple To ueens Commuters who coerced a 21-year-old woman into sex work out of a Flushing hotel. Read the whole Congestion ricing story on page 19. ill Fund The Subay SEE PAGE 3 HOLDEN, LANCMAN AND MILLER TOUR HORIZON TOGETHER Former State Assemblymember Pamela Harris walks into federal court for the Queens Councilmembers Robert Holden, ueens harmacies Eastern District of New York ahead of her sentencing for fraud on Wednesday Rory Lancman and Daneek Miller toured the Tae Bac Drugs Horizon Juvenile Detention facility. “After afternoon. Eagle photo by David Brand SEE PAGE 13 Continued on page 2 SEE PAGE 3 Feeling Unsafe, Dozens of Court Ofcers Rally for More Staff QUEENS By Christina Carrega Queens Daily Eagle Ahead of a planned demonstration outside the Queens Supreme Courthouse in Kew Gardens, court ofcers from across the city TODAY converged on 60 Centre Street in Manhattan to demand the state hire more ofcers. — October , 2018 — Though a new court ofcer training facility is expected to open in NovemBer, the men and touring Horizon, I feel even more strongly that women that guard the city’s courthouses say the facility needs to Be shut down until the city they feel unsafe. is fully equipped to implement the Raise the “We are 20 ofcers short here,” said Age law,” Holden said. Sherman Blanks, 3, a court ofcer at 0 Centre St. in Lower Manhattan. “There is no one to back me up, no one there to assist.” 3 QUEENS PHARMACIES The protest was the latest in a series of TAKE BACK RX DRUGS Three pharmacies in Queens will serve as demonstrations demanding the state hire more safe drop-of locations for unused prescription court ofcers. The New York State Court drugs as part of Saturday’s National Drug Ofcers Association planned to hold another TakeBack Day, Attorney General BarBara D. demonstration outside the Criminal Courthouse Underwood announced on Monday. A CVS in Kew Gardens Thursday morning. Pharmacy in Forest Hills, the Long Island Over the last two years, approximately 60 Jewish Medical Center in Glen Oaks and court ofcers were “seriously hurt” while on the Manson Pharmacy in Briarwood are among the joB By inmates and memBers of the puBlic, said Court ofcers holding signs in protest of the lack of stafng on Oct. 23, 2018. dozens of drop-of locations boroughwide that Continued on page 8 Eagle photo by Christina Carrega will participate. Read more on Page 13. CITY ALLOCATES BIG BUCKS TO ADULTS LITERACY IN QUEENS Queens County Criminal Court Calendar — Oct. 25 — CouncilmemBer Daniel Dromm announced that the City Council would allocate hundreds of thousands of dollars to various adult literacy brutality and degradation. This teenage girl was GLENDALE CREEP CHARGED ALLEGED CRIP CHARGED programs across Queens. WITH PIMPING TEEN NIECE fnally released but will live with this horrible WITH CONSPIRACY TO KILL Eddy Florence is charged with frst-degree experience for the rest of her life.” avaun Harper is charged with second- kidnapping for allegedly forcing two teenage JUSTICE VALLONE PRESIDES degree attempted murder for allegedly ATTACKER BASHES TEEN WITH SPEAKER girls to perform sex work. He appears in K10 for conspiring to shoot rival gang memBers. Harper The NYPD is searching for a man they a hearing. ••• appears in K7 for a conference. say bashed a 14-year-old in the head with a Florence, a Glendale resident, allegedly In March, Queens District Attorney Richard ST. ALBANS BLOOD BUST portable speaker near 41 Road and Main Street forced his 13-year-old niece to perform sex A. Brown announced the grand jury indictment in Flushing, ABC7 reported. work, forced her to take drugs and even had sex NETS SIX ALLEGED GANG of Harper and eight other alleged members of with her. MEMBERS a Far Rockaway Crips gang who prosecutors In December 2017, the Queens District Brandon Bledman and Kaminski Gauthier say attempted to shoot rivals in June 2015, July PEEPING TOM FROM JERSEY Attorney’s ofce said Florence, 32, asked are charged with second-degree conspiracy for 2015, December 2015 and July 2016. BUSTED FOR QUEENS INVASIONS his niece to perform sex work Beginning in allegedly conspiring to kill rivals. Bledman and “The defendants are accused of turning New Jersey resident Fawad Hekmaty, 40, NovemBer of that year. He then posted her Gauthier appear in K5 for a conference. neighBorhood streets into war zones By acting was arrested after police say he followed a photos on weBsites used for the purpose of Bledman and Gauthier, along with four in concert with one another to carry out targeted women to her Sunnyside home, peered through other alleged members of the Bloods gang,were soliciting sex workers. hits on their enemies,” Brown said. “The the window and masturBated on at least two indicted on multiple charges of conspiracy Florence also allegedly Brought his niece and defendants are alleged to have communicated occasions, according to the NYPD DCPI. another girl to a Staten Island hotel to perform to kill their rivals, Queens County District for months about acquiring guns and cars for hits sex work. Attorney Richard A. Brown announced in a joint and actually admitted in conversations online to JUSTICE VALLONE PRESIDES. statement with NYPD Commissioner James “spanking” and getting “Busy” shooting their AMAZON IS COMING TO WOODSIDE O’Neill in September. targets.” Queens will soon get its frst Amazon ••• Brown said the six men, who ranged in JUSTICE KOHM PRESIDES “fulfllment center” after the internet giant JAMAICA PIMP CHARGED age from 22 to 29, Belong to the Wood City signed a lease with property owner Terreno Gang, a Bloods suBset, Based in St. AlBans and WITH SEX TRAFFICKING ••• Realty for two 83,000 square-foot lots located Springfeld Gardens. Lance Hamilton is charged with frst-degree NIGHTCLUB KILLERS at 2-1 Boody Street, The Real Deal reported. kidnapping for allegedly kidnapping a 1-year- “The defendants in this case are accused of RETURN FOR SENTENCING old girl, sexually assaulting her and forcing her shooting at two rival gang memBers — creating Neon Osouna, 38, and his cousin Brandon to perform sex work. He appears in K10 for a havoc in our neighBorhoods and threatening Williams, 36, were Both found guilty of second REED WAS SHOT FOUR trial. the lives and safety of innocent bystanders,” degree murder last month and return to TAP D TIMES AND DIED. Prosecutors say a friend brought the teenage Brown said in a statement. “The defendants are for sentencing. “This is yet another example of the senseless victim to Hamilton’s home where Hamilton variously accused of turning our communities Osouna and Williams shot and killed Donald gun violence that has plagued our community. A proceeded to rape her in December 2015. into danger zones with senseless gun violence.
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