Politics & Government

Donation Breakdown for County Executive Hopefuls

Top donor gave $9,000 to Suozzi Campaign, while Mangano received five pledges of $5,000 apiece.

By Michael Ganci

Wonder if your neighbors are giving lots of money to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano or Democratic hopefuls Tom Suozzi or Adam Haber? 

This list, published by Newsday, chronicles the top donors to each campaign based on disclosure reports from the New York State Board of Elections on file as of Aug. 12.

For Mangano, there were five pledges of $5,000 for his campaign, coming from District Council New York City, Infinite Consulting Corp. in Hicksville, Lotus Management Group Inc. in Syosset, Ravishanka B. Bhooplapur of Syosset and Joseph Dicristina of Smithtown.

Suozzi's biggest donor is Steven Norman of Copiague, who pledged $9,000. National Surveillance and Security Inc., of Lindenhurst, gave $5,000, while Cherian V. Arikupurathu of New Hyde Park donated $3,030. 

In addition, Adam Haber's highest donor is Vincent Viola of New York City, who pledged $17,289. He also received two $10,000 donations from James Buslik of Roslyn and Andrew Sandler from Glen Head.

For more details on the donor breakdown, click here.

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