Monday, July 14, 2025

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Monday, January 14, 2025
 
VIA FAX: 1-202-514-3003, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
Criminal.Division@usdoj.gov
Edward P. Sullivan, Esq. – Senior Litigation Counsel
United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division
Public Integrity Section (PIN)
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC  20530-0001  USA
 
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Criminal.Division@usdoj.gov
Edward P. Sullivan, Esq. – Senior Litigation Counsel
United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division
Public Integrity Section (PIN)
1301 New York Avenue, 10th Floor
Washington, DC  20005  USA
 
Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont
 
Dear Attorney Sullivan, and Colleagues:
 
Further to my prior correspondence regarding the Village of Piermont in Rockland County, New York, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that although the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed by OSC.
 
My further understanding is that this new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the New York State Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government itself, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php
 
As background information, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html
 
Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html
 
Thank you to you and your colleagues for your attention to this matter.
 
Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.

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Law Office of John J. Tormey III, Esq.
John J. Tormey III, PLLC
1636 Third Avenue, PMB 188
New York, NY  10128  USA
(212) 410-4142 (phone)
(212) 410-2380 (fax)
jtormey@optonline.net
https://www.tormey.org
 
Monday, July 14, 2025
 
VIA U.S. MAIL
Jay Clayton – United States Attorney
Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
26 Federal Plaza, 37th Floor
New York, New York  10278  USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL
Amanda Leigh Houle - Chief, Criminal Division
Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
26 Federal Plaza, 37th Floor
New York, New York  10278  USA
 
Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont
 
Dear US Attorney Clayton, Chief Houle, Chief Coffman, Chief Klein, and Colleagues:
 
Further to my prior letters regarding the Village of Piermont, New York in Rockland County, and as you may already be aware, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, New York:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that although the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed by OSC.
 
My further understanding is that this new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the New York State Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government itself, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php
 
As background information, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html
 
Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html
 
Thank you to you and your colleagues for your attention to this matter.
 
Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
 
cc:
VIA U.S. MAIL
Jeff C. Coffman - Chief, White Plains Division
Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
50 Main Street
White Plains, New York  10606-1901  USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL
Benjamin David Klein - Chief, White Plains Division
Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
50 Main Street
White Plains, New York  10606-1901  USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL
Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
One St. Andrew’s Plaza
New York, New York  10007  USA

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Law Office of John J. Tormey III, Esq.
John J. Tormey III, PLLC
1636 Third Avenue, PMB 188
New York, New York  10128  USA
(212) 410-4142 (phone)
(212) 410-2380 (fax)
jtormey@optonline.net
https://www.tormey.org
 
Monday, July 14, 2025
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Christopher.Raia@ic.fbi.gov
Christopher G. Raia, Assistant Director in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
New York Field Office
26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor
New York, New York 10278-0004 USA
 
Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont
 
Dear Director Raia, and Colleagues:
 
Further to my prior letters to FBI regarding Piermont, New York, and as you may already be aware, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, New York:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that although the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed by OSC.
 
My further understanding is that this new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the New York State Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php
 
As background information, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html
 
Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html
 
Thank you to you and your colleagues for your attention to this matter.
 
Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
 
cc:
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Leslie.Backschies@ic.fbi.gov
Leslie Rodrigues Backschies, Special Agent in Charge
Criminal Investigation Division and Public Corruption Unit, New York Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor
New York, New York 10278-0004 USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Christie.Curtis@ic.fbi.gov
Christie M. Curtis, Special Agent in Charge
Intelligence and Surveillance Division, New York Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor
New York, New York 10278-0004 USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Eric.Reese@ic.fbi.gov
Eric J. Reese, Special Agent in Charge
Counterintelligence and Cyber Division, New York Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor
New York, New York 10278-0004 USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Felix.Rivera@ic.fbi.gov
Felix A. Rivera, Special Agent in Charge
Operational Support Division, New York Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor
New York, New York 10278-0004 USA

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Law Office of John J. Tormey III, Esq.
John J. Tormey III, PLLC
1636 Third Avenue, PMB 188
New York, NY  10128  USA
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jtormey@optonline.net
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Sunday, July 13, 2025
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Aida.Vernon@ag.ny.gov
Aida Vernon, Esq. - Assistant Attorney General
Public Integrity Bureau
28 Liberty Street
New York, New York  10005  USA
 
Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont
 
Dear Ms. Vernon:
 
Further to our prior communications and as you may already be aware, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, New York:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that although the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed by OSC.
 
My further understanding is that the new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php
 
As background information, and as in principal part already familiar, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html
 
Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html
 
Thank you for your continued attention to this matter.
 
Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.

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John J. Tormey III, PLLC
1636 Third Avenue, PMB 188
New York, New York  10128  USA
(212) 410-4142 (phone)
(212) 410-2380 (fax)
jtormey@optonline.net
https://www.tormey.org
 
Sunday, July 13, 2025
 
VIA FAX: 1-845-638-5298, and U.S. MAIL
District Attorney Tom Walsh
Rockland County District Attorney’s Office
1 South Main Street, Suite 500
New City, New York 10956-3549 USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
info@rocklandda.org
Criminal Investigations Unit
Rockland County District Attorney’s Office
1 South Main Street, Suite 500
New City, New York 10956-3549 USA
 
Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont
 
Dear District Attorney Walsh, and Colleagues:
 
As you may now already be aware, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, New York:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows what you will recall as OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that though the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed.
 
My further understanding is that the new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the faxed and mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php
 
As background information, and as in principal part already familiar to your colleagues, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html
 
Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html
 
Thank you for your continued attention to this matter.
 
Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Resident of the Town of Orangetown, New York

Saturday, July 12, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: New York State Comptroller Commences Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont.

EXCLUSIVEThomas DiNapoliOffice Of The New York State Comptroller (OSC) Is Now Commencing An Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont, NY.
Saturday, July 12, 2025 (PIERMONT, NY)
By “Unhand Piermont!”

Following the 2024 commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of the embattled Lower Hudson River Valley municipality, the Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) has announced that it is now commencing a long-awaited audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, New York:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
 
This significant development, yet to be publicly-communicated by the Comptroller or by any local media to date, was instead quietly revealed in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting draft minutes of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php
 
The manifold indications of lame-duck Mayor Bruce Tucker’s abject fiscal mismanagement and malfeasance, as well as the origins of the New York State Comptroller’s auditing activities themselves, have been well-chronicled to this Blog. A chronology of the correspondence and memos leading up to the OSC audit, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2024-07-21-tormey-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2024-07-30-memo-to-whistleblowers.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2024-08-16-tormey-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2024-11-14-first-foil-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2024-11-21-first-foil-receipt.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2024-11-31-tormey-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2024-12-06-tormey-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2024-12-20-comptroller-foil-response.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-13-garmento-mayor-bruce-tucker.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-14-garmento-mayor-tucker.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-15-tormey-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-25-second-foil-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-06-03-second-foil-receipt.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-06-16-comptroller-foil-response.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-07-01-comptroller-foil-response.html
 
The prior posts to this Blog providing further detail and analysis of the Comptroller’s auditing activities, are found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/newsflash-office-of-new-york-state.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/08/bruce-tuckers-house-of-cards-crashing.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-bruce-tuckers-us367938.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/2026-adopted-budget-village-of-piermont.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-in-stew.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-conceals-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/06/newly-uncovered-new-york-state.html
 
“Unhand Piermont!” launched a campaign to rid the Village of Piermont of overdevelopment, environmental and fiscal harm, and the Village’s corrupted government officials, over one year ago on April 10, 2024:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/unhand-piermont_10.html
 
A 455-item chronology of the efforts of “Unhand Piermont!” since, a subject-matter link-list by topic for your ease of reference, and an important recent revelation about Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker’s past, can all be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/06/piermont-mayor-bruce-edward-tucker-loan.html
 
Finally, it has yet to be determined how long the New York State Comptroller’s audit of Piermont will take. Typically, the auditors will follow the investigation wherever it leads. 

This is now a vitally-important concept for residents of the nepotistic and clannish Village of Piermont, many of whom have found themselves conflicted over the past year by dint of their individual past interactions with - and in many cases their misguided fealty towards - outgoing Mayor Bruce Tucker and the other Village of Piermont “officials” who currently populate the Piermont Board of Trustees and Piermont Village Hall. This sordid pool includes the various boards, committees, publications, non-profits, and other interest-groups and individuals that have denigrated themselves as sycophants to do Bruce Tucker’s malevolent bidding over the past seven-plus years of his harmful mayoral reign.
 
Right now, each and every individual who has enabled Bruce Tucker and his Village Hall lackeys, is vulnerable to the prospect of becoming themselves swept-up in the Comptroller’s audit of Piermont. After all, there are only about 2,500 residents in Piermont, and it has been beyond simple to figure out which ones are the Tucker-philes. Moreover, the existence and progress of the OSC auditing activities will continue to be reported-out to county, state, and federal agencies with law enforcement power including the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office, the New York State Attorney General’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Attorney
s Office for the Southern District of New York. All of them.
 
This situation may get much worse before it gets any better - not just for the Village and Bruce Tucker, but also for any individual possessing the requisite lack of judgment needed to choose to continue to associate with Tucker. Therefore, I republish the call to any and all whistleblowers, below. If you have any knowledge of any malfeasance by Mayor Bruce Tucker or others within Village of Piermont government, past or present, you are urged to report what you know to the Office of the New York State Comptroller. 

After all, better that you bring it to them, than they bring it to you:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/tell-it-to-tom.html
 
Thank you for your attention to this matter, which is very important to all of Rockland County, New York.

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
"Unhand Piermont!"

2025 07 01: Comptroller FOIL Response Extension.