RIVERHEAD – The Suffolk County Ethics Commission has won a court order directing the Brookhaven Town Republican leader, Thomas M. Neppell Jr., to file the same annual financial disclosure forms as other town political leaders across the county. At the end of a 16-page decision signed July 24, Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle gave Mr. Neppell 30 days to do so.
Mr. Neppell, who breeds racehorses and whose family owns an insurance company, claimed he was exempt from disclosure, arguing that he is neither a “local political party official” as defined by General Municipal Law nor a “political party officer” as defined by Suffolk County Code. Mr. Neppell served as Brookhaven town leader in the 1970s and again starting in April 2001.
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