Sheriff specifies staff car rules

Sheriff specifies staff car rules - Newsday.com: "Nassau Sheriff Edward Reilly said yesterday that seven members of his senior staff, including himself, have county cars available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

All seven can take their cars - provided so they can respond immediately to any jail emergencies - to an approved second job, as long as they don't use the vehicles for their outside employment, Reilly said.

Currently none of the seven, including undersheriff Michael Sposato, has such outside employment, he said. As reported yesterday in Newsday, the district attorney and the county investigations commissioner are probing whether Sposato used his county car to work as a process server or as a private security guard last year while he was chief of staff.

Reilly said he had discussed the allegations, made in anonymous letters to the investigators and to Newsday, and is confident there will be no finding of wrongdoing. Sposato's lawyer said his client used the county car only to drive to his outside jobs, including providing security at 15 Jones Beach concerts last summer."