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URGENT

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

VIA FAX: 1-202-564-0027, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:

mckeever.michele@epa.gov
Michele McKeever - Chief, National Planning and Measures Branch
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Mail Code: M2221A
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, DC Federal Triangle Campus
Washington, DC 20460 USA

VIA U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
owen.ted@epa.gov
Ted Owens - Acting Director
Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics, and Training (OCEFT), Criminal Investigation Division
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Mail Code: 2201A
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, DC Federal Triangle Campus
Washington, DC 20460 USA

VIA FAX: 1-732-452-6454 and U.S. MAIL
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Criminal Investigation Division (CID) - U.S. EPA CID
2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Building 238
Edison, NJ 08837 USA

VIA FAX: 1-202-564-0027, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
garcia.lisa@epa.gov
Lisa Flavia Garcia, Regional Administrator
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 (US EPA Region 2)
Ted Weiss Federal Building, 290 Broadway
New York, NY 10007-1866 USA

VIA FAX: 1-202-564-0027, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
uhlmann.david@epa.gov
David M. Uhlmann, Assistant Administrator
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Mail Code: 2201A
Office Of Site Remediation And Enforcement
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, DC Federal Triangle Campus
Washington, DC 20460 USA

VIA U.S. MAIL
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Criminal Enforcement Division
The Galleries - 6th Floor, 441 South Salina Street
Syracuse, NY 13202 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 Chief McKeever, Acting Director Owens, Regional Administrator Garcia, Assistant Administrator Uhlmann, and Colleagues:

I write to you as a group for now, because it is not yet manifest as to which individual and office would assert jurisdiction over this matter. 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.

What has triggered my letter to each of you today are the unsavory activities of a 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 currently believed to be a toxic former gasoline station site on a small property - in the very center of the beautiful and historic Village of Piermont, New York, in the Hudson Valley:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/bringing-it-on-home-sunoco-gasoline.html

Piermont is directly appurtenant to the Hudson River, as you likely 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 hyphenate address, is the fact that this location is comprised of three or four smaller plots which were deliberately combined for the purpose of the development activity in question.

The developer entity that I believe is threatening to build over 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

According to a Deed which I just reviewed for a 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

I am writing to you to therefore try to stop a potential environmental calamity-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 EPA attention paid to this environmental threat. The reason that, in my opinion, I believe that 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:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/bringing-it-on-home-sunoco-gasoline.html

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 colleagues to please visit Piermont, New York immediately - attend to this potential harm-in-the-making - and use every possible resource of the federal government to protect the Americans who live in 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, each of you, for your careful consideration to this letter.

Respectfully submitted,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.