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Article: 'I need a calling card': Jurors in bribery trial hear Prospect ask Baranello's help in gaining access to Levy, departments.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2006
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Byline: Rick Brand And Erik German
Apr. 7--Jurors listening to the first tapes in the bribery trial of Wayne Prospect yesterday heard him ask repeatedly for a "calling card" to give him access to departments in the new administration of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy so Prospect could steer work to favored contractors.
Prospect, a private consultant, made his request to Steve Baranello, an executive at Suffolk Off-Track Betting and a key Levy campaign adviser. Baranello, the son of the late state and county Democratic chairman Dominic Baranello, pleaded guilty in 2004 to bribery and conspiracy.
"I need a calling card," said Prospect in a ...
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