Newsday-  The Town of Oyster Bay has denied allegations in a federal lawsuit filed by the owner of a restaurant padlocked last year that the town fabricated building and health code violations.

In the suit filed two weeks ago in U.S. District Court in Central Islip, Philip Morizio, owner of Cafe Al Dente in downtown Oyster Bay, says his rights were violated. He asserts that Oyster Bay's commissioner of planning, Frederick Ippolito, orchestrated a conspiracy to shut him down in September because he would not relocate from 2 Spring St. to a vacant Italian restaurant Ippolito owned or use an attorney the commissioner recommended. Continue