$771G scam of pre-K aid
WEATHER-WEARY New Yorkers begging for a break from the bitter cold will see a brief rise in temperatures Wednesday — just enough to have hope before a blast of snow blankets the area.
Then it’s back to the deep freeze.
That’s the brutal outlook from busy meteorologists, whose frosty forecasts have made them as popular as dentists and telemarketers.
With words like “polar” and “vortex” and “arctic” and “blast,” the weather watchers have supplied an ongoing narration to Jack Frost’s frigid frenzy.
“I hate being in New York right now only because of this cold,” tweeted Mike Scudiero, a college radio station host in Riverhead, L.I., where temperatures hovered around 19 degrees Tuesday evening.
“It’s gonna be 1 degree in air temperature Saturday night. ONE DEGREE!! That means the feel could be 15 below for all we know!! CRAZY.”
Not as crazy as in upstate Erie County, where near-blizzard conditions were responsible for a 75-car pileup on Interstate 90 just outside of Buffalo.
The 45-mph winds made the trip seem like a drive through a giant snow globe.
Officials there put out a lake-effect snow warning with predictions of up to 12 inches of powdery white nuisance.
The flakes will be part of a monster “bomb cyclone” that will pummel coastal locations from Georgia to Maine with ice and snow. Forecasters coined the term because the storm’s pressure is predicted to fall so fast that its strength is expected to be explosive.
New York City will get hit with up to 4 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.
Across social media, people posted print screens of their weather apps recording temperatures that ranged from 10 degrees in A COUPLE gorged themselves on more than $750,000 meant for the Gingerbread Learning Center, a Staten Island preschool they operated for kids with learning disabilities, authorities said Tuesday.
School founders Dennis and Elsie Mosesman, of West Long Branch, N.J., were indicted Tuesday on numerous charges, including felony grand larceny.
The couple’s indictment followed a 2016 audit by state Controller Thomas DiNapoli that alleged the Mosesmans stole $771,000 in taxpayer money to create a $150,000-a-year no-show job for Elsie Mosesman and pay for a lavish lifestyle that included home landscaping, car and insurance payments for two Mercedes-Benzes, a Porsche and a Toyota Highlander, as well as piles of flowers and gift cards.
The Mosesmans pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the charges in Supreme Court in Staten Island and were released on their own recognizance. They did not respond to calls for comment.
Gingerbread Learning Center operates two locations in Staten Island with about 100 students. According to its website, the outfit has been in business since 1988.
The school offers state-funded classes and other services to children with disabilities. Gingerbread Learning Center also appears in the city’s 2017 directory of cityfunded universal prekindergarten providers.
Education Department spokeswoman Devora Kaye said the programs for city kids at center will continue, despite the charges the Mosesmans face. She would not discuss the case, but said the department “takes this matter extremely seriously.”