Luis Alvarez, 9/11 First Responder From Oceanside Who Testified Before Congress, Dies At 53
Luis Alvarez, a retired NYPD detective from Long Island who testified before Congress earlier this month, urging it to extend health benefits to 9/11 emergency responders, has died. He was 53.
Alvarez, of Oceanside, died early in the morning on Saturday, June 29 from complications of colorectal cancer, a disease linked to the three months he spent at the World Trade Center towers after the terrorist attacks.
"We told him at the end that he had won this battle by the many lives he had touched by sharing his three-year battle," the Alvarez family said in a statement. "He was at peace with tha…
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Trio Indicted For World Trade Center 'Pay-To-Play' Bribery Scheme, State Attorney General Says
New York Attorney General Letitia James charged three men involved in rebuilding the World Trade Center alleging they engaged in a “pay-to-play" bribery scheme.
“These individuals were trusted with rebuilding the site of the worst terror attack in American history, but instead, allegedly squandered public funds to line their own pockets,” said James in the May 29 announcement.
The individuals charged are James Luckie, 58, of Setauket in Suffolk County; and Michael Garrison, 59, of Stony Point in Rockland County; and Paul Angerame, 59, of Manhattan.
They were charged in a scheme that i…
