Buonanotte won his first bit of success in his lawsuit against the State when a Federal Court judge dismissed the State's motion to dismiss the case. The Judge felt that there was enough evidence of wrong doing on the State's part to proceed with a trial. Buonanotte expects depositions to begin this summer and plans on being in front of a jury in the fall of 2008. Buonanotte is suing Henry Zwack and the former Commissioner of OASAS, Shari Noonan in Federal Court and is suing OASAS in the New York State Court of Claims. The irony of this case is that Buonanotte's lawsuit against the State is to the tune of $90 Million which is far more than Crossings had ever billed Medicaid for treatment.

Neither Frank Buonanotte nor Crossings were charged with Medicaid fraud. Only petty paper violations that Buonanotte describes as "dotting i's and crossing t's" citations. Such citations could be found in any medical facility across the State. It also appears as if the State of New York has targeted other substance abuse treatment agencies in the same corrupt manner in which they did Crossings. There is now a 6-8 week waiting period before patients can be treated at any of the existing alcohol and drug treatment centers on Long Island. Oddly enough, no one has been able to realize that this is the reason why DWIs and alcohol/drug related crimes and deaths are at an all-time high on Long Island.

Everyone wants their taxes to be lower but at what expense? Another question is how much more will it cost taxpayers in terms of crime and wrongful deaths to have alcoholics and drug addicts go untreated? An even better question is how much will it cost taxpayers to pay for the State's unlawful actions if Buonanotte wins his lawsuit?

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