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Saturday,
July 20, 2024
VIA
U.S. MAIL, with enclosures
James
Smith, Assistant Director in Charge
Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), White Plains Division
Attn:
Public Corruption Unit
600
Midland Avenue
White
Plains, NY 10605 USA
VIA
U.S. MAIL, with enclosures
James
Smith, Assistant Director in Charge
Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), White Plains Division
Attn:
Public Corruption Unit
26
Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor
New
York, NY 10278-0004 USA
Re: Request For An Investigation Of
The Village Of Piermont, NY Government
Dear
Assistant Director in Charge Smith, and Colleagues:
Enclosed
with this letter as Exhibit A is a copy of the May 31, 2017 “Statement
Of Net Position” of the Village of Piermont, New York.
Enclosed
with this letter as Exhibit B is a copy of the May 31, 2023 “Statement
Of Net Position” of the Village of Piermont, New York.
My
understanding is that 2017’s Exhibit A was made available on the Village
of Piermont, New York website. However, my further understanding is that the
Village of Piermont may have ceased making this type of financial reporting
available on their website circa 2020, and that therefore Exhibit B needed to be
extracted from Piermont government through FOIL recently.
It
is unfathomable that the government of a small village of approximately 2,500
residents with a positive Net Position of “US$834,138” in 2017, could have possibly run
that village into the ground in 6 short years to a Net Position of “(US$7,622,669)”
– that is, to a negative Net Position of over 7.6 million dollars in the hole.
While
clearly, accounting conventions may have changed in that six-year period as
regards pension liabilities for example, the pension vector between 2017 and
2023 as reflected in the Exhibits still appears to be staggering. Moreover, it
appears that Piermont Village government deliberately changed the format of its
“Statement of Net Position” from 2017 to 2023, as also reflected in the
Exhibits, perhaps in an attempt to shield Village Hall defalcation. As for the
timing, my understanding is that the first mayoral term of current Village of
Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker commenced at the beginning of 2018. His mayoral reign
lines up almost perfectly with these two alarming documents.
I
represent no client in this matter, although in recent months I have undertaken
to fight irresponsible real estate development and environmental practices by the Village of
Piermont government. Those real estate development and environmental practices may well be
related to the Village’s underlying financial distress reflected in the two
Exhibits hereto. Though I know that it should have no effect on any law
enforcement investigation of potential Piermont village government financial malfeasance,
you should please be aware that Mayor Bruce Tucker is a Democrat, and that the
recently-departed head of the Village of Piermont Planning Board is one Daniel
Spitzer, brother of disgraced former New York State Governor and Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer.
Mindful
that you will likely receive similar requests to investigate what is apparently
newly-discovered information regarding the Village of Piermont’s 2023 negative “Net
Position”, I respectfully request that you and your colleagues probe how a
small-town village government could have possibly blown-through that much by
way of financial resources over a 6-year period, and put its unsuspecting
village residents so deeply in the hole.
Thank
you for your careful consideration of this letter and its Exhibits.
Respectfully submitted,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
