MWH Top Stories 2010: January/February

January

Malverne doc returns to Haiti to give Aid

After a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti’s capital on Jan. 12, Malverne resident and Mercy Medical Center cardiologist Thierry Duchatellier and a group of five fellow doctors took a trip to the country to provide medical aid.

Having been born and raised in Haiti, Duchatellier felt it was his duty to return there on Jan. 17, less that a week after the earthquake leveled the impoverished nation’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

“When we got together, we knew it wasn’t going to be pleasant and it wasn’t going to be a vacation and it was basically going to be war medicine that we were going to provide,” Duchatellier said. “I think being from there, being raised there, we knew it was a poor country, so we had seen very bad medical outcomes down there.”

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Corbin pleads guilty to tax evasion

Former Nassau County Legislator Roger Corbin, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Central Islip on Jan. 25 to a seven-count federal felony indictment that charged him with tax evasion and lying to federal agents about those taxes.

The guilty plea marked the end of Corbin's nearly eight-month legal fight with federal prosecutors. His district included parts of West Hempstead and Lakeview.

The 63-year-old former Democratic lawmaker, who was ousted in 2009 from the 2nd Legislative District seat he'd held since the Legislature's 1995 inception, was sentenced in June to 18 months in federal prison and three years of supervised released, and he was ordered to pay $92,170 in back taxes and penalties.

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February

Grossmann's Farm sale finalized   

The sale of the 105-year-old Grossman’s Farm in Malverne, which had been a controversial and sensitive issue since it closed in 2007, was finally completed Feb. 8 after months of discussions and rumors.