Tuesday, June 30, 2026

"But Wait! There's MORE!": The Criminal Section Of The United States Department Of Justice Civil Rights Division Considers The Case Of Marthe Schulwolf And The PDC.

On June 4, 2026, Piermont’s Marthe Schulwolf of the so-called “Piermont Democratic Committee” or “PDC”, engaged in a bigoted rant about human beings who she objectified and summarily categorized as the “Ultra-Orthodox”. With broad brush in hand, Marthe Schulwolf, a New York State governmental public official running for re-election out of what was at least in part her own self-serving interest, assured us that the “Ultra-Orthodox”[her words] “are… very authoritarian, structured, cultish societies that do what the rabbis tell them to do”, and who “don’t believe in gender or racial equality”. [Emphasis supplied].
 
Marthe Schulwolf, Piermont’s desiccated answer to Archie Bunker, continued her rant by informing all of us, in that June 4, 2026 public forum, that the “Ultra-Orthodox”[her words] “did get one of their people to become the Democratic Commissioner of Elections. Hopefully she’s following the law. She is the daughter of the… Ramapo Chair… who is an ultra-Orthodox… Severe problem.” [Emphasis added]:
 
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/full-pdc-transcript-thursday-june-4.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/request-for-new-york-state-attorney.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eya_AhJads
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/vote-sexist-vote-bigot-vote-liar-vote.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/gee-our-old-lasalle-ran-great.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/mount-wolfmore.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/piermont-june-19-primary-defeat-marthe.html
 
Yet the “severe problem” is that Marthe Schulwolf’s unabashed bigotry has infected the Village of Piermont, has infected Piermont’s so-called “Democratic Committee”, and has now infected the rank-and-file of at least a few hundred of Piermont’s residents. After all, the other severe problem is that on June 4, 2026, Marthe Schulwolf spouted off these hateful comments to a roomful of Piermont public officials, politicians, and residents – and not one of those individuals in that Piermont room contemporaneously sought to stop Schulwolf or even vocally object to Schulwolf’s intolerant and incendiary statements.
 
That’s right. It was a roomful of Piermont cowards.
 
Seeing that no local solution was availing as it should have been, Marthe Schulwolf’s misconduct as a public official was reported in writing to New York State Attorney General Letitia James and her staff:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/request-for-new-york-state-attorney.html
That state matter remains pending (the “State Complaint”).
 
Marthe Schulwolf’s misconduct as a public official was then reported in writing to Acting Attorney General of the United States Todd Blanche and his colleagues, as a federal matter (“Federal Complaint”):
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/piermont-candidate-schulwolf-makes-new.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/piermonts-marthe-schulwolf-finds.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/piermonts-marthe-schulwolf-meets-justice.html
 
Then and thereafter, a few interesting things happened.
 
On June 23, 2026, no less than 192 Piermont residents voted to re-elect Marthe Schulwolf to the Piermont Democratic Committee or “PDC” – the vast majority already having heard, or at least heard about, Schulwolf’s deplorable 
June 4, 2026 Marge Schott act:
https://app.enhancedvoting.com/results/public/rockland-county-ny/elections/PE26
The conclusion is inescapable that those 192 Piermont residents must either share Marthe Schulwolf’s bigoted views about the “Ultra-Orthodox”[Schulwolf
s words] - or at least tolerate them like the unmeritable sheep that the 192 Piermont residents are.
 
Around that same time, the following Blog post went inexplicably viral, garnering 10 to 20 times the normal number of digital “hits” that posts to this Blog usually tally:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/piermonts-marthe-schulwolf-meets-justice.html
This phenomenon normally would only occur if a sub-section of the Rockland County community would seize upon the post and then re-post it through other channels. That sub-section could well have been one or more of the religious communities in western Rockland County. Or, it could have been others who care about what the word “Democrat” is really supposed to mean. Or, maybe both.
 
Then, this past Friday, the Administrative Section of the USDOJ Civil Rights Division declined to take further action on the Federal Complaint (Report Number 790245-ZBK), appearing to defer it to state or local authority. This would ostensibly include deference to the pending State Complaint to New York State Attorney General Letitia James and her staff:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/initial-reluctance-from-administrative.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/request-for-new-york-state-attorney.html
 
But wait. There’s more.
 
Yesterday, Monday, the Criminal Section of the USDOJ Civil Rights Division assigned a different Report Number to the Federal Complaint (795562-ZDV), and appears to now be considering further action on the federal complaint. To quote the Criminal Section, “Please know that the information you have provided will receive appropriate consideration”.
 
So here are some possible reasons why this positive, cavalry-over-the-hill development happened:
 
1. The USDOJ Administrative Section and the USDOJ Criminal Section each separately received electronic and/or mailed copies of the same complaint, and each responded separately.
 
2. The USDOJ Administrative Section and the USDOJ Criminal Section may well have separate authority and the ability to make separate determinations. They may act independently.
 
3. Alternatively, perhaps the USDOJ Administrative Section and the USDOJ Criminal Section are normally expected to concur, and this was simply a case where the two sections were not able to communicate with each other prior to responding to what was essentially the same complaint notified to multiple USDOJ destinations.
 
4. Alternatively, perhaps the USDOJ Criminal Section is expressly overruling the USDOJ Administrative Section’s Friday determination, after reviewing it and realizing that it really should not be dismissed. Being that USDOJ carefully logs-in every incoming complaint and uses software to do so, this explanation appears to be the most likely - especially when one considers the federal ramifications of Schulwolf's bigoted comments as a public official.
 
5. There is also the possibility that the extensive readership of the Friday, June 19, 2026 Blog post resulted in members of one or more of the religious communities in western Rockland County, or perhaps others, to separately contact the United States Department of Justice and request or demand agency response to Marthe Schulwolf’s vile, bigoted comments as a public official:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/piermonts-marthe-schulwolf-meets-justice.html
 
In any event, we’re back on. Eyes are on Marthe Schulwolf.
 
As for the 192 Marthe Schulwolf sycophants in Piermont - and as for the roomful of Piermont-resident cowards and PDC-enablers who in-person heard and witnessed Marthe Schulwolf’s bigoted rant on June 4, 2026 and did absolutely nothing to stop her – they are as much the “severe problem” as Marthe Schulwolf herself. For that matter, they may find themselves in their own brush with Justice.

Initial Reluctance From The Administrative Section.



Wednesday, June 24, 2026

EXCISION 2026: Metzler Beats Dennis Hardy For PDC.

The previously-noted auguries were correct, to the extent that a few contemptible candidates once again slipped through the dysfunctional Piermont electorate last night. Yet Unhand Piermont! plays the long game. The fact of the matter is, since April of 2024, a whole batch of undesirables have been separated from Piermont government. You will find the names and faces of that pantheon of losers, below. Most importantly, witness the excision of one Dennis Hardy - a former Piermont Mayor for a reason. His mayoral reign was abysmal. At least the Piermont electorate remembered that. And last night, ex-Mayor Dennis Hardy couldnt even get elected back on the low-level Piermont Democratic Committee (PDC) to do the grunt work that Marthe Schulwolf obnoxiously assured us only women ever want to do. Unhand Piermont! is happy to add ex-Mayor and HVAC luminary Dennis Hardy to the Unhand Piermont! Excision Scoreboard:
















Friday, June 19, 2026

Piermont's Marthe Schulwolf Meets Justice.









Law Office of John J. Tormey III, Esq.
John J. Tormey III, PLLC
1578 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
 
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
 
VIA FAX: 1-202-353-0472, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
todd.blanche@justice.gov
todd.blanche@usdoj.gov
The Honorable Todd Blanche
Acting Attorney General of the United States
United States Department of Justice (USDOJ)
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001 USA
 
VIA FAX: 1-202-616-0646, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
harmeet.dillon@justice.gov
harmeet.dillon@usdoj.gov
The Honorable Harmeet K. Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General
United States Department of Justice (USDOJ), Civil Rights Division
Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Main
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20530 USA
 
VIA FAX: 1-202-353-0472, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
chad.gilmartin@justice.gov
chad.gilmartin@usdoj.gov
The Honorable Chad Gilmartin, Deputy Director
United States Department of Justice (USDOJ), Office of Public Affairs (OPA)
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001 USA
 
Re:
Antisemitism Within The Piermont Democratic Committee (PDC)
The Village of Piermont, New York – Rockland County, New York
Ms. Marthe Schulwolf, PDC Member And PDC Candidate For Re-Election
 
Dear Attorney General Blanche, Assistant Attorney General Dhillon, and Deputy Director Gilmartin:
 
I am an attorney and reside in the Town of Orangetown, New York. Seeking oversight, I have contacted agencies in the past with certain disquieting findings regarding the Village of Piermont, located in the Town of Orangetown and Rockland County, New York. My understanding is that Village of Piermont government is already under New York State Comptroller Audit and law-enforcement investigation relating to Piermont’s finances, as of this day. Yet this new civil rights-related discovery came as a surprise. I will explain.
 
Below-linked is a full transcript (“Transcript”) of the Piermont Democratic Committee (PDC) Candidate Forum called “Meet the Committee Candidates”, held on Thursday, June 4, 2026 (the “Forum”):
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/full-pdc-transcript-thursday-june-4.html
 
The video of the so-transcribed Forum is found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eya_AhJads
 
The Forum was held because, for the first time in memory of many Piermont residents, there is a contested choice between 7 PDC candidates for 4 openings on the PDC. June 23, 2026 is the primary election day, and early voting has already commenced.
 
When reviewing the Transcript, I was appalled to discover blatantly antisemitic remarks made by one Marthe Schulwolf. Marthe Schulwolf is a current member of the Piermont Democratic Committee and is seeking to remain on the PDC. Although some other remarks in the Transcript you will find to be ageist, sexist, and otherwise offensive - here is Marthe Schulwolf’s specific hate-speech in question and the reason for my letter to you today:
- - - - -
 
Marthe Schulwolf: … But let me just say this. At the town and county level, what hurts us, what sometimes kills us… is that we have a severe... distortion in Rockland County politics. We have the town of Ramapo, and… also Haverstraw to a degree, where you have the Ultra-Orthodox voting blocs. Register as Democrats, they put Democrats in the County Legislature so they can control the majority and be the majority, and then they vote, exclusively, to a like 90, 95% for Trump and Lawler. And they also are, of course… very authoritarian, structured, cultish societies that do what the rabbis tell them to do. Their values are far more in tune with the Republican Party. They don’t believe in gender or racial equality. And the fact that they control the local… they have taken over the Rockland County Democratic Party. We have worked very hard in Orangetown, and we hope that this Fall we can take it back. They did get one of their people to become the Democratic Commissioner of Elections. Hopefully she’s following the law. She is the daughter of the…
 
[Moderator] Chris Sanders: Time.
 
Marthe Schulwolf: Ramapo Chair…
 
[Moderator] Chris Sanders: Time, Marthe.
 
Marthe Schulwolf: …who is an ultra-Orthodox.
 
[Moderator] Chris Sanders: Thank you.
 
Marthe Schulwolf: Severe problem.
[Bold-face emphasis added].
 
Piermont Democratic Committee (PDC) Candidate Forum.
“Meet the Committee Candidates”, June 4, 2026:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/full-pdc-transcript-thursday-june-4.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eya_AhJads
Time-Code: [01:04:06,960 et seq.]
- - - - -
 
I know not what Marthe Schulwolf’s own religious, ethnic, or cultural background may be, but it does not matter here. After all, she expressly excluded herself from the calculation of “they” and “their people” when referring to “Ultra-Orthodox”[her words]. Marthe Schulwolf spoke as a member of the Piermont Democratic Committee, ostensibly for the Democratic Party generally, and as a candidate for renewed public office as a public official in New York State. Even in the heat of a political contest, Marthe Schulwolf had absolutely no right to willfully and intentionally disparage the “Ultra-Orthodox”[her words] as “cultish societies that do what the rabbis tell them to do”, and “who don’t believe in gender or racial equality”. Her reference to “one of their people” was similarly repugnant and wholly dissonant with respect to what are purported to be traditional Democratic Party principles. Piermont is a liberal village almost wholly comprised of Democrats. I am surprised that not one Piermont resident in the room stopped Marthe Schulwolf, or apparently even sought to stop her, as she was making these loathsome comments on June 4, 2026. Perhaps they were all too shocked by Schulwolf’s comments to do so. Or perhaps many in the room are complicit in them.
 
In any event, Marthe Schulwolf had no right to demean, degrade, and disparage a faith - an entire group of people, an entire class of people – my own neighbors in Rockland County - particularly for the purposes of her own self-serving political benefit. Her intolerant comments made in that setting violate the United States Constitution, the New York State Constitution, and, I have to believe, federal and state civil rights laws as well.
 
250 years ago this country was founded by those seeking free exercise of religion. I was born the son of two New York City artists in show business who raised me in the spirit of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King. My father was U.S. Army crypto and intel. JFK was his Commander-in-Chief. Years later, JFK Jr. and I became schoolmates in Manhattan. The Democratic Party of those days always purported to stand for equality and non-discrimination. Apparently, no more, though.
 
I am asking that your office of the Attorney General of the United States please commence a plenary investigation of the so-called “Piermont Democratic Committee” and an investigation of Ms. Marthe Schulwolf individually, given Ms. Schulwolf’s wholly-wrongful and repulsive remarks publicly-made as a member of the Piermont Democratic Committee.
 
Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
 
Respectfully submitted,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.





Law Office of John J. Tormey III, Esq.
John J. Tormey III, PLLC
1578 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
 
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
 
VIA FAX: 1-914-422-8706, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
nysag@ag.ny.gov
Letitia James, Attorney General
Office of the New York State Attorney General
The Capitol
Albany, New York 12224-0341 USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
anna.brower@ag.ny.gov
Anna Brower, Chief Of Staff
Office of the New York State Attorney General
28 Liberty Street, Floor 16
New York, New York 10005 USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
aida.vernon@ag.ny.gov
Aida Vernon, Esq. - Assistant Attorney General
Public Integrity Bureau
28 Liberty Street, Floor 16
New York, New York 10005 USA
 
Re:
Antisemitism Within The Piermont Democratic Committee (PDC)
The Village of Piermont, New York – Rockland County, New York
Ms. Marthe Schulwolf, PDC Member And PDC Candidate For Re-Election
 
Dear Ms. Vernon, Chief of Staff Brower, and Attorney General James:
 
As I believe each of you will recall, I am an attorney and reside in the Town of Orangetown, New York. As I believe you will also recall, I have contacted you in the past with disquieting findings regarding the Village of Piermont, located in the Town of Orangetown and Rockland County, New York. My understanding is that Village of Piermont government is still under New York State Comptroller Audit and law-enforcement investigation relating to Piermont’s finances, as of this day. Yet this new discovery came as a surprise. I will explain.
 
Below-linked is a full transcript (“Transcript”) of the Piermont Democratic Committee (PDC) Candidate Forum called “Meet the Committee Candidates”, held last Thursday, June 4, 2026 (the “Forum”):
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/full-pdc-transcript-thursday-june-4.html

The video of the so-transcribed Forum is found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eya_AhJads
 
The Forum was held because, for the first time in memory of many Piermont residents, there is a contested choice between 7 PDC candidates for 4 openings on the PDC.
 
When reviewing the Transcript, I was appalled to discover blatantly antisemitic remarks made by one Marthe Schulwolf. Marthe Schulwolf is a current member of the Piermont Democratic Committee and is seeking to remain on the PDC. Although some other remarks in the Transcript you will find to be ageist, sexist, and otherwise offensive - here is Marthe Schulwolf’s specific hate-speech in question and the reason for my letter to you today:
 
Marthe Schulwolf. … But let me just say this. At the town and county level, what hurts us, what sometimes kills us… is that we have a severe... distortion in Rockland County politics. We have the town of Ramapo, and… also Haverstraw to a degree, where you have the Ultra-Orthodox voting blocs. Register as Democrats, they put Democrats in the County Legislature so they can control the majority and be the majority, and then they vote, exclusively, to a like 90, 95% for Trump and Lawler. And they also are, of course… very authoritarian, structured, cultish societies that do what the rabbis tell them to do. Their values are far more in tune with the Republican Party. They don’t believe in gender or racial equality. And the fact that they control the local… they have taken over the Rockland County Democratic Party. We have worked very hard in Orangetown, and we hope that this Fall we can take it back. They did get one of their people to become the Democratic Commissioner of Elections. Hopefully she’s following the law. She is the daughter of the…
 
[Moderator] Chris Sanders. Time.
 
Marthe Schulwolf. Ramapo Chair…
 
[Moderator] Chris Sanders. Time, Marthe.
 
Marthe Schulwolf. …who is an ultra-Orthodox.
 
[Moderator] Chris Sanders. Thank you.
 
Marthe Schulwolf. Severe problem.”
 
[Bold-face emphasis added]. Piermont Democratic Committee (PDC) Candidate Forum:
“Meet the Committee Candidates” (June 4, 2026)
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2026/06/full-pdc-transcript-thursday-june-4.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eya_AhJads
Time-Code: [01:04:06,960 et seq.]
 
I know not what Marthe Schulwolf’s own religious, ethnic, or cultural background may be, but it does not matter here. She spoke as a member of the Piermont Democratic Committee, ostensibly for your own Democratic Party generally, and as a candidate for renewed public office as a public official in New York State. Even in the heat of a contested election, Marthe Schulwolf had absolutely no right to willfully and intentionally disparage the “Ultra-Orthodox”[her words] as “cultish societies that do what the rabbis tell them to do”, and “who don’t believe in gender or racial equality”. Her reference to “one of their people” was similarly repugnant and wholly dissonant with respect to traditional Democratic Party principles. I am surprised that not one Piermont resident in the room stopped Marthe Schulwolf, or apparently even sought to stop her, as she was making these loathsome comments. Perhaps they were all too shocked by the comments to do so.
 
In any event, Marthe Schulwolf had no right to demean, degrade, and disparage an entire group of people, an entire class of people – my own neighbors in Rockland County - particularly for the purposes of her own self-serving political benefit. Her intolerant comments made in that setting violate the U.S. Constitution, the New York State Constitution, and, I have to believe, federal and state civil rights laws as well.
 
250 years ago this country was founded by those seeking free exercise of religion. I was born the son of two New York City artists in show business who remained life-long Democrats, and raised me in the spirit of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King. My father was U.S. Army crypto and intel. JFK was his Commander-in-Chief. Years later, JFK Jr. and I became schoolmates in Manhattan. The Democratic Party that I grew up knowing, always purported to stand for equality and non-discrimination. Those values should be restored in 2026. I am asking that your office of the New York State Attorney General please commence an investigation of the so-called “Piermont Democratic Committee” and an investigation of Ms. Marthe Schulwolf individually, given Ms. Schulwolf’s wholly-wrongful and repulsive remarks publicly made as a member of the Piermont Democratic Committee.

Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
 
Respectfully submitted,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.