The Long Island town that hired a traffic expert who later admitted in court that his personal views could be seen as bigoted has fired the consultant and backtracked on its previous defense of him.
Jeffrey Buckholz was terminated by the Town of Oyster Bay just hours after The Post exposed his long-string of hateful and anti-Muslim LinkedIn posts, and his sworn admission that he could be considered a bigot under oath, according to town officials and court records.
Buckholz, was hired by town officials to study traffic around a local mosque in a long-standing lawsuit battle between Oyster Bay and the Muslims of Long Island group, which wants to expand a mosque in Bethpage. 3
“We are shocked and outraged to learn of this, and are immediately dismissing him from this case,” Oyster