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Top Negotiator, Ruinous Gambler Hartman Dies

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 8/24/15

Richard Hartman, who as the outside negotiator for several key police unions helped make Long Island cops the best-paid in the nation while also producing significant gains for NYPD officers but succumbed to a gambling addiction that first cost him his law license and later sent him to prison, died Aug. 13 of cancer. He was 75 years old.

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