{"id":196721,"date":"2026-04-14T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196721\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:23:13","slug":"news-12-long-island-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196721\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The former president of Adelphi University has been sentenced for a crash in Garden City last year.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/former-adelphi-president-facing-new-charges-in-crash-on-lirr-tracks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As News 12 reported<\/a>, Christine Riordan, 61, of Garden City, was originally charged with DWI after driving through a metal guardrail and ending up on the Long Island Rail Road tracks at the Nassau Boulevard station in September.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In January, Riordan pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment and criminal mischief, both misdemeanors; the latter eventually being reduced to disorderly conduct, a violation, after she completed several conditions of her plea.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Those conditions include an aggressive driving course, a M.A.D.D. Victim Impact Panel, treatment evaluation, and more than 100 hours of community service.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Restitution to the MTA\/LIRR will also continue as a condition of her sentence, which was a total of $140,000 for damage to the railway.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">If any of the conditions are not completed, the Nassau DA\u2019s office says they will seek appropriate remedies, including jail time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former president of Adelphi University has been sentenced for a crash in Garden City last year. As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-196721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}