Frank Tassone, a Republican aide in the Suffolk Legislature, has gone into consulting full-time.

Tassone, who had been on leave fom his county post for the past year, becomes senior vice-president in charge of client communications with Roosevelt Strategy Group, headed by Anthony Manetta who ran the winning sheriff campaign a year ago for Vincent DeMarco. While at the county legislature, Tassone had been chief of staff to former Legis. Andrew Crecca (R-Nesconset), now a judge.

While on leave, Tassone worked for Manetta's firm as a advisor in Jeanine Pirro's losing race for attorney general and in Islip GOP town board member's Pamela Greene's unsuccessful run for town supervisor last fall.

Rick Brand