While perhaps known for its less savory aspects and characters, this author’s native region has some high achievements and products that are of definite value: diners, pizza, bagels, excellent schools, a fine if somewhat insane president of the United States, Steve Buscemi. Still, my Long Island pride has perhaps never been stronger than over the past month, a possible unprecedented orgy of fraud and duplicity from the Cross Island Parkway to Montauk Point, from sea to Sound, in spite of the fact that much of Goodfellas was filmed, and could well have been set, there.