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First, there's news that landlord Wilson Milord was indicted yesterday on three counts of criminally negligent homicide in connection with the death of three tenants from carbon monoxide poisoning at a West Babylon home he owned. Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota told Newsday that Milord "refused to provide electricity to tenants living in the house ... and instead placed a gasoline-powered generator inside the building."

Now comes news that a man posing as a real estate agent, police say, took $2,000 from a family to rent out a Roosevelt home he had no authority to rent. Baldwin resident Gregory Garvin was charged today with grand larceny and fraud in the real estate scam, according to Newsday.

In sentencing Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani, a judge ordered that they must forfeit their $2 million home in Muttontown, where the couple held two women against their will. Read more about the story here.

Newsday photo / Karen Wiles Stabile

Nothing like a homily to set the tone of a blog about real estate agents / associate brokers / sales agents. Basically this sermonette’s message is no matter what you call yourself, you’ve got to pay your taxes.

See the homily on the Hamptons Real Estate Blog on the status of the tax cases against 11 Manhattan agents.

But there are 31 involved in this particular tax case -- not all from Manhattan. Six are from Long Island -- one from Southampton, the rest from, ahem, up-Island. The rest are from upstate somewhere. Interestingly, these state tax cases are being handled in Albany County. Such a trek.

Here’s the list:
-Adam Krause, 39, of West Babylon, accused of failing to file tax returns between 2000 and 2006, authorities say, and he owes close to $30,000.

Others whose cases have not been detailed include John E. O'Neil, 47, of Massapequa; Elizabeth A. Clarke, 56, of Southampton; Phyllis Kelly, 44, of Sayville; Denise Buser, 46, of East Islip; and Donna Stovall, 51, of Rocky Point.

"Amityville Horror" fans, mark your calendars: The Amityville Film Festival is scheduled July 11 at dusk to celebrate the chilling flick's 30th anniversary. Just be prepared to travel to Seaside Heights, N.J., to catch it. Even though the movie is about the haunting of the South Shore Dutch Colonial where Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his parents and four siblings in 1974, it was filmed in Toms River, N.J. The festival, which will also show the sequels, is free. For a full rundown on the murder, the book, the movie... scope out Seaside Heights News Magazine and Talky Blog!, www.popartpete, where neat pictures are also posted.

Newsday file photo / Stan Wolfson

We recently blogged about a vintage "That's Incredible" segment on the "Amityville Horror" house. Now it's time for some new stuff. Here's a clip posted yesterday by AmityvilleFiles.com, which has "a vast archive of information, allowing the viewer to do their own research into the topic, and decide for themselves where the truth lies in this highly controversial case."

"CSI: New York" is scheduled to air an episode early next month debunking the "Amityville Horror" theory. As Newsday reported last year, when the episode first aired, none of the scenes was actually filmed on Long Island. But many of the scenes in this vintage clip from "That's Incredible" were.

Matthias von Wrede, former manager at Engel & Volkers Southampton, faces five to 20 years in prison for possessing "a video of girls younger than 10 engaging in intercourse, a photograph depicting the 'sexual killing' of a child, video of sadomasochistic torture, and images of babies being sexually abused." Read the full report here.

Newsday file photo, 2006 / Ken Sawchuk

The Glen Cove townhouse-style condo where retired teacher Denice Fox was murdered remains on the market for $899,000. The three-bedroom, 3.5-bath unit at 7 Willada Lane in the gated community of Cove Landing went on the market a year ago. Fox and her husband, Jay Fox, bought the condo in 2005 for $990,000. It has soaring ceilings, and access to a private deck from the master bedroom on the first floor. "I feel a warmth at the house," daughter Rebecca Fox told Newsday in December. "I feel the love that she had when she was there." Lillian Haug, who is listing the property on behalf of the Sea Cliff office of Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, is holding an open house of the property Saturday and Sunday by appointment only. A virtual tour of the house can be seen by clicking here. To read about the case, click here.

Newsday photo / Dick Yarwood

The East Hampton estate where millionaire financier Ted Ammon was blugeoned to death has been rented out for the 2008 summer season. The south-of-the-highway Middle Lane tudor fetched $275,000 for the season.

The 52-year-old Ammon's body found in his second-floor bedroom of the house in 2001. Daniel Pelosi -- who married Ammon's widow, Generosa, three months later -- was convicted of the murder in 2004. Generosa Ammon died of breast cancer in 2003. The estate is now owned by the Ammons' twins.

The 7,000-square-foot house is fullly furnished with much of the art and collectibles that Generosa Ammon held near and dear. There are seven bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms, as well as a solarium, a library, a gourmet kitchen, a heated pool, a pool house and a 2.5-car garage.

The house, which is on more than 2 acres, also reportedly has a room where the Ammons could have hidden from intruders.

The property is near comedian Jerry Seinfeld's house and the ocean.

Town & Country Real Estate
in East Hampton had the exclusive listing on the rental, which was also available for $375,000 for the year.

Pool Photo / Gordon M. Grant, 2001

So what will the federal government get when it seizes the Muttowntown house where Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani kept two Indonesian women as slaves? According to Nassau County property records, a 5,898-square-foot Contemporary on Coachman Place East on a little less than a half-acre of property. It's unclear how many bedrooms there are, but records show that there are seven bathrooms. The ground floor alone is 2,066 square feet. There is a pool, with a stone and tile patio and a wood deck. The Sabhnanis bought the house, built in 1985, for $675,000. Comparable homes in the area are now selling for anywhere from $1.6 million to $2.8 million. Taxes are $25,484.06.

Newsday photo / Karen Wiles Stabile