Letter To The United States Attorney, SDNY.
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)
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URGENT
Thursday, April 18, 2024
VIA U.S. MAIL
United States Attorney Damien
Williams
Daniel M. Gitner - Chief,
Criminal Division
Southern District of New York
26 Federal Plaza, 37th Floor
New York, New York 10278 USA
VIA U.S. MAIL
United States Attorney’s
Office
Southern District of New York
One St. Andrew’s Plaza
New York, NY 10007 USA
VIA U.S. MAIL
Perry Carbone – Chief, White
Plains Division
United States Attorney’s
Office
Southern District of New York
50 Main Street
White Plains, New York 10606
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 US Attorney Williams,
Chief Carbone, and Colleagues:
Thank you for your attention
to this letter. 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.
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:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/bringing-it-on-home-sunoco-gasoline.html
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
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Developers, LLC”, a New Jersey “LLC” whose status has been revoked for seven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:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/flashback-to-2015-polidoro-properties.html
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:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/piermont-new-york-meet-your-new-475.html
A map of 475 Piermont Avenue
can be found here:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/475-Piermont-Ave-Piermont-NY-10968/102074354_zpid/
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 USATTY
and SDNY 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 am asking the offices of
USATTY and SDNY to please stop the development of the property at 447-477
Piermont Avenue in Piermont, New York, compel the environmental remediation of
that site, and investigate the Piermont Village Planning Board and Piermont
Zoning Board of Appeals for its participation in and facilitation of this toxic
nightmare. I urge you and your USATTY colleagues to please attend to this matter,
and use every possible USATTY 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 for your careful
consideration of this letter.
Respectfully
submitted,
John
J. Tormey III, Esq.
