22 The QUEE NS Courier • APRIL 7, 2016 for breaking news visit www.qns.com Daniel Gale features $1.6 million home as part of the 7th Annual Long Island and Queens Realtor Open House Weekend By Stephen Vrattos svrattos@qns.com @QueensCourier This weekend is the 7th Annual Long Island and Queens Realtor® Open House Weekend. As one of the premier real estate agents in the world, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty has many of its quality properties hosting open houses this weekend with its expertly trained and award-winning staff on hand at each property to give you the help and info you need. Below is just one of those featured properties. For a complete list, visit the company’s Facebook Page, where open houses will be listed throughout the weekend. Organized by the Long Island Board of Realtors (LIBOR), the event offers buyers of every caliber a stress-free way to visit homes for sale in different neighborhoods where they might want to live, as well as giving realtors the opportunity to host thousands of open houses, while engaging consumers on the benefits of homeownership. Whether you’re a savvy homebuyer or just getting your feet wet, this is the weekend you should be checking the real estate scene, asking questions and taking notes, so you can make an informed decision in finding the home that’s perfect for you. Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty cuts the ribbon on its new office in Douglaston. CITY’S TOP COP DISPUTES REPORTED NUMBER OF OFFICERS IN FLUSHING PRECINCT BRIBE PROBE By Robert Pozarycki rpozarycki@qns.com/@robbpoz Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the bribery investigation involving Flushing’s 109th Precinct does not involve as many officers as previously reported. Bratton disputed claims in a DNAinfo article published on March 29 that indicated 23 officers from the command were at the center of the probe, which stems from the arrest of two 109th Precinct Detective Squad members last December. Although Bratton acknowledged that “several individuals in that command” have gone through the disciplinary and criminal justice processes, “the information in that article is incorrect as far as the numbers of personnel.” “It’s an ongoing investigation,” he told reporters at a press conference. “It’s a criminal investigation as well as administrative.” After QNS published this story on April 1, Murray Weiss — the DNAinfo investigative reporter who wrote the article — said in an email to us that he stands “100 percent” behind his article, which was “based on detailed 80-plus page Internal Affairs report that I had obtained that named every officer, allegation against them, and included their photos.” Weiss did not disclose the names of those mentioned in the report. Bratton also refined his statement about the exact number of officers under investigation, indicating that a number of officers are being questioned about the knowledge they have regarding various concerns within the 109th Precinct. He further indicated it may take some time for the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau and the Queens District Attorney’s office to sort it all out. The NYPD did confirm that it fired Lieutenant Robert Sung, who was arrested along with Detective Yatyu Yam last December on charges that they accepted bribes from local karaoke club owners in exchange for providing them with favors including inside information about impending surprise inspections. Another member of the precinct, who was not identified, has been suspended without pay; four other 109th Precinct members have been placed on modified duty pending the results of the investigation. The presidential race arrives in NY It’s been a busy week in politics as candidates from the state legislature to president of these United States barnstormed across Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island like jackrabbits running across a busy highway. They’re all coming out now since New York has a notoriously late primary compared to the rest of the nation, yet it still holds a treasure trove worth of delegates that are awarded on a proportional basis. On the national level there is milquetoast Ohio Governor John Kasich, who has been seen aggressively courting votes all over Long Island and Queens. The Midwestern governor’s campaign believes his in-your-face Queens Politics & More BY MIKE FRICCHIONE moderate brand of politics jibes well with the more socially liberal and fiscally conservative Republicans that inhabit the city and its suburbs. And normally, Kasich would be correct, were it not for his latest unforced error of eating his pizza with a fork and knife at a Howard Beach pizzeria. He must have been taking political advice from Mayor de Blasio. I even covered Kasich telling a crowd in Huntington, Long Island, that he would persist because “nobody is going to have enough delegates to go to the convention on the first ballot.” That sort of Midwestern sensibility and drive, the kind that openly strategizes about eking out a nomination nod from fellow party insiders at a brokered convention, is the reason why Donald Trump is estimated, as of press time, to draw at least 10,000 people to his scheduled Wednesday rally in Bethpage. On the Democratic side, where Bernie and Hillary continue to duke it out, the two camps finally agreed to a New York debate on Bernie’s home turf in Brooklyn. The April 14 debate at the Brooklyn Navy Yard should make for an interesting spectacle as the two candidates will unquestionably try to both come across as the city’s favorite child.
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