{"id":1993,"date":"1963-01-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1963-01-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2022-01-21T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T22:22:29","slug":"smithtown-fire-inspector-admits-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"Smithtown Fire Inspector admits guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>January 21, 1963 Former town fire inspector pleads guilty to misdemeanor extortion charge in Suffolk County Court. Case grew out of charges that Henry Haberman, a deputy building inspector, offered a $50.00 bribe to his boss, Harvey Manuel to overlook violations in a garden apartment project in Hauppauge. Mr. Haberman of 20 Wood Lane, Smithtown was initially charged with bribing public officers, taking unlawful fees and extortion. He faces penalties of up to a year in jail and $500.00 in fines. He is out on bail until sentencing February 15. Mr. Haberman was suspended in May of last year when the charge of offering a bribe was lodged by Mr. Manuel. Me. Haberman was fired from his town post when he was indicted by the grand jury. Police say that Mr. Haberman picked up $100.00 in cash from Greentree Garden Apartments and then tried to pass on $50.00 to Mr. Manuel. From Smithtown News 1\/24\/1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 21, 1963 Former town fire inspector pleads guilty to misdemeanor extortion charge in Suffolk County Court. Case grew out of charges that Henry Haberman,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-wide","category-smithtowntwp","category-smithtown-twp-historical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.suburbanfiremarshal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}