In Our Opinion:

Nick Spano Insults Our Intelligence

Former State Senator Nicholas Spano would appear to be a brazen liar whose denials and claims insult our intelligence, given that his last three election victories, 2000, 2002, and 2004, all involved election fraud. The contest in 2004 required a massive conspiracy to put him across. There was a good reason why it was the longest-disputed election in New York State history. It isn’t easy to turn a loss by more than three hundred votes into a victory by eighteen.

And, make no mistake about it, the eighteen stood for Nick, his fifteen siblings, and both of his parents. He and his henchmen, including, admitted election fraudster, Anthony Mangone, who had to cover his smirk throughout the last count, were just that cynical.

That conspiracy which ran from Election Day in November 2004, all the way into February of the next year, got everybody into the act, including, but certainly not limited to: Jeanine Pirro, Joe Bruno, Appellate Division Judge Robert Spolzino, Supreme Court Justice Ira Warshawsky, Election Commissioners Reginald LaFayette
and Carolee Sunderland, the Westchester County Department of Public Safety, Anthony Mangone, and a host of other Spano henchmen.

Now, this man who spent nearly three decades in Albany feeding from the same contaminated trough as Guy Velella and others of that ilk, building up a staff of more than thirty, with a payroll of more than $1.2 million, giving jobs to people like Anthony Mangone, Giulio Cavallo, under investigation for election fraud, James Surdoval, convicted pedophile, and Zehy Jereis, convicted drug dealer and election fraudster, would like us to believe he was a mere disinterested party with regard to the $100,000 consultant fee paid to Jereis from the “Member Item” $175,000 grant that he obtained for the Yonkers Chamber of Horrors, oops, We
meant Commerce.

This man with unclean hands would have us believe that he had no foreknowledge that Zehy Jereis, who he personally installed as Yonkers Republican Committee Chairman, who he gave a six-figure job to as his Administrative Assistant, and who he put into the County Board of Elections despite his election fraud,
and drug dealing conviction, would be getting $100,000 as a consultant from the $175,000 grant he had arranged for the Chamber. Like Jereis, Nick would have us believe that he had no influence, no say, in the Chamber’s selection.

We say, Tell it to the Marines. Mr. Spano’s problem is simply that he and his Mob have been getting away with such blatant corruption for so long, aided, abetted, and protected by Jeanine Pirro, George Pataki, and others, including certain very corrupt judges, that he believes we’re all a bunch of fools. He believes that he can
get away with anything, even signing off on court-appointed custodialships, and committeeships of incompetents, using “Esq.” after his name, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth, though he is not a law school graduate. One particular judge has been rumored to be fee-splitting for years.

One has to wonder about a professed public servant so closely aligned with admitted, and convicted, pedophiles, drug dealers, and election fixers. It’s not as though he’s been running a rehab agency for reformed and repentant criminal offenders.

Quite the contrary; in fact, the election offenses were committed in Nick’s behalf. Anthony Mangone was Nick’s campaign manager in 2000 when he forged 166 Green Party and Independence Party primary ballots. We are reminded of the old expression, “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are.”