Thursday, April 18, 2024

Letter To The Federal Bureau Of Investigation.

 
Law Office of John J. Tormey III, Esq.
John J. Tormey III, PLLC
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URGENT
Thursday, April 18, 2024

VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
James.Smith@ic.fbi.gov
James Smith, Assistant Director in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
600 Midland Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605 USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Leslie.Backschies@ic.fbi.gov
Leslie Rodrigues Backschies, Special Agent in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
600 Midland Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605 USA
 
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Christie.Curtis@ic.fbi.gov
Christie M. Curtis, Special Agent in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
600 Midland Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605 USA
 
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Robert.Kissane@ic.fbi.gov
Robert Kissane, Special Agent in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
600 Midland Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605 USA
 
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Eric.Reese@ic.fbi.gov
Eric J. Reese, Special Agent in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
600 Midland Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605 USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Felix.Rivera@ic.fbi.gov
Felix A. Rivera, Special Agent in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
600 Midland Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605 USA

Re:
The Deliberate Paving-Over Of A Former Sunoco Gasoline Station And Suspected Toxic Site
            
Location: 447-477 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York, 10968 USA
 
Dear Assistant Director in Charge Smith, and Colleagues:
 
Thank you for your attention to this letter. I write to each of you as a group for now, because it is not yet clear to me as to which of your individual offices would take jurisdiction over this matter, and which of you oversee the Westchester FBI office handling Rockland County. However, an external threat like this would I am sure be considered a threat by all of you. It is my carefully-considered opinion that this matter is ripe for pursuit by your offices as a criminal one, for the reasons which I set forth hereinbelow upon information and belief.
 
As you may already be aware, I am an attorney in New York, and a citizen and resident of the Town of Orangetown and the County of Rockland. Your files may also indicate that I am a proud graduate of the FBI’s Citizen’s Academy, Class of 2010. In that course, I studied in downtown Manhattan under the authority of George Venizelos and Janice Fedarcyk, successive Assistant Directors In Charge of FBI’s New York Division, as well as Special Agents Stacey Diamond, Evelyn Vera, and Jackie Delaney who ran the Citizen’s Academy program at the time. Realizing that a request for FBI action like this one may end up circulated to one or more of them as a matter of electronic connection and practice, please give them my regards if and when they may be contacted. I always want them to know how grateful I am for the opportunity to have participated in that program.
 
Regarding the business at hand, what has prompted my letter to you today are the unsavory activities of a New Jersey real estate developer and its individual associates, seeking to place a behemoth, overstuffed 14-unit residential building - while at the same time potentially paving-over what is a former Sunoco gasoline station site believed to be toxic - on a small property in the very center of the picturesque and historic Village of Piermont, New York:
 
Piermont is directly appurtenant to the Hudson River, as you may know. The location of the property at issue is 447-477 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York, 10968 USA. My understanding is that the reason for the hyphenated address, is the fact that this location is comprised of three or four smaller plots which were deliberately combined for the purpose of the wrongful development activity in question.
 
The developer entity that I believe is threatening to build over and on top of this potentially toxic site is known as “Piermont Developers Limited Liability Company” alias “Piermont Developers, LLC”, a New Jersey “LLC” whose status has been revoked for seven (7) years or more by the State of New Jersey for failing to file and pay its Annual Reports. The last-known Manager, Member, and Managing Member of “Piermont Developers Limited Liability Company” is one Gerard M. (Jerry) Polidoro, an individual who was slammed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) about a decade ago for failing to remediate a (different) toxic gasoline station site in Bergenfield, New Jersey:
It is therefore beyond comprehension to the citizens of Piermont how lightning could be allowed to strike twice in this regard.
 
According to a Deed for a component portion of the 447-477 Piermont Avenue property, the recent buyers and current owners of that portion of the property identified as “475 Piermont Avenue” appear to be the same “Piermont Developers Limited Liability Company” alias “Piermont Developers, LLC", and Gerard M. (Jerry) Polidoro:
A map of 475 Piermont Avenue can be found here:
 
I am writing to you to therefore try to stop a potential environmental nightmare-in-the-making which is unfolding before my eyes and the eyes of the people of the Village of Piermont. At minimum, the residents of the Village of Piermont need immediate FBI attention paid to this serious environmental and health threat. The reason that, in my opinion, I believe this matter is ripe for pursuit by your offices as a criminal one, is because both the developers and the soft Village of Piermont government thusfar appear to be steamrollering ahead to pave over this likely-toxic site deliberately. Until most of the site was fenced-off yesterday, the site has been used as a parking lot for about 24 to 35 cars at a time, and has been used as such from at least as far back as the 1990s – which alone raises serious environmental concerns in this context.
 
While I do not believe that politics should play a part in anything like this, you actually should be made aware in this case, to the extent you are not already aware, that the Chair of the Village of Piermont Planning Board is one Daniel Spitzer, brother of disgraced former New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer of “Client 9”, black socks, and hotel folding-girlfriend luggage infamy:
https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2007/03/25/dan-spitzer-gov-s-brother/52945306007/
 
I urge you and your FBI colleagues to please attend to this matter, and use every possible USDOJ resource to protect the residents of the Village of Piermont, New York. The people of the Village need you, and the people of the Village are counting on you.
 
Thank you again for your careful consideration of this letter.
 
Respectfully submitted,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
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