COUNTY OFFICIALS REQUEST THAT WC SPORTS HALL OF FAME EXPEL INDUCTEE AFTER FEDERAL PORNOGRAPHY GUILTY PLEA

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Latimer Asks That County Sports Hall of Fame Member Be Removed

County officials have requested that the Westchester Sports Hall of Fame expel a 2017 inductee after he pleaded guilty to a federal pornography charge last week.

Westchester County Executive George Latimer and Board of Legislators Chair Vedat Gashi jointly announced Wednesday that they are asking the Hall of Fame’s board of directors to take the action following the June 29 guilty plea by Rich Leaf, who for close to 40 years served as the voice of the Section 1 basketball tournament at the County Center and of Iona basketball.

Leaf, 74, a Somers resident, was also a longtime youth soccer referee and had served as president of Westchester-Putnam Approved Soccer Officials Association.

“A crime is a crime of sorts, of various sorts, but some are particularly heinous, and whenever we’re dealing with a particular individual in a position of trust and faith that has committed a crime in that general direction, we feel the need to act and to act quickly,” Latimer said. MORE AT Latimer Asks That County Sports Hall of Fame Member Be Removed | The Examiner News