Spano's paternal grandfather, also named Nicholas, emigrated with two brothers from the Italian
province of Bari to the United States in 1918. During his run for re-election in 2006, Stewart-Cousins ran against him again, this time with the support of Democrats
Bill Clinton,
Hillary Clinton,
Eliot Spitzer,
David Paterson and
Andrew Cuomo. Spano lost the rematch; ==Tax fraud==