Nick Purpura is a Former Managing Director and General Partner at Bear Stearns and Co. He is also Former Publisher of the Staten Island Eagle Newspaper, a newspaper that circulates over 131,000 copies. In 1983, he became a judicial activist because of the hundreds of millions of dollars of corruption he uncovered in NY land deals in Staten Island. He then became a chaplain because these land deals spilled over to the Catholic church. He is also cofounder of of Project Home Front, a successful charity that supported our troops overseas. He is famous for saying that “Education is a national security issue.”