Federal prosecutors charge town official with tax evasion
A Long Island town official has been charged with six counts of tax evasion, according to an unsealed indictment released last week.
Frederick Ippolito, commissioner of planning and development for Oyster Bay, was scheduled to be arraigned March 20 before U.S. Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson.
According to the indictment, from 2008 to 2013, Ippolito received more than $2 million in consulting fees from Carlo Lizza & Sons, Paving, Inc., a company located in Old Bethpage, N.Y., as well as from a principal of that company.