FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com DECEMBER 26, 2013 • THE QUEENS COURIER 21 s year in photos QUEENS COURIER TAKES TOP PRESS HONORS The Queens Courier won the New York Press Association’s Past Presidents’ Award for General Excellence for the second year in a row. The team of reporters also placed fi rst for Best In-Depth Reporting and second for Best Spot News Coverage for their coverage of Sandy. Writers Terence Cullen, Maggie Hayes and Alexa Altman were each given individual FBI arrests two Queens lawmakers State Senator Malcolm Smith and Councilmember Dan Halloran were among six offi cials arrested by the FBI for conspiring to rig the mayoral election. Smith, a registered Democrat, allegedly bribed county GOP leaders to let him run for mayor as a Republican. He needed consent from three of the city’s five Republican Party county chairmen. Halloran is accused of setting up meetings between Smith and county leaders and negotiating payoffs, allegedly pocketing $21,000 in the process. Vincent Tabone, then-vice chair of the Queens County Republican Party, and Joseph Savino, then-chair of the Bronx County GOP — who later pleaded guilty — were allegedly part of the conspiracy scheme, officials said. Smith, Halloran and Tabone pleaded not guilty and are still locked in legal battles. TEACHER CHARGED WITH RAPING EX-STUDENT Daniel Reilly, a sixth grade English teacher at I.S. 237, was charged with felony second-degree rape for having sex multiple times with a 14-year-old girl he used to teach. The 36-year-old married father from Forest Hills pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison and 10 years’ probation. PHOTO COURTESY THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS april ting accolades. THE COURIER/File photos THE COURIER/File photo
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