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Top court: Nassau Co. must pay MTA $26M after long-running lawsuit

Thursday May 2, 2013 11:01 PM By Yancey Roy

New York’s top court on May 2, 2013

Photo credit: Faye Murman

ALBANY -- New York's top court dismissed a Nassau County lawsuit Thursday against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, leaving the county on the hook for almost $26 million and sparking a war of words between two county executive candidates.

It's a tangled case that began in the Gulotta era of Nassau government and involved the fiscally strapped county getting a quick cash infusion --...

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