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Monday, September 8, 2025
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Laura M. Crisafulli, Esq. - Assistant Counsel
State of New York, Office of the State Comptroller
(OSC)
Division Of Legal Services
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
110 State Street, 14th Floor
Albany, New York 12236 USA
Re: NEW
FINDING: The Ongoing Audit Of Piermont, New York And Outgoing Mayor Bruce
Tucker
Dear Ms. Crisafulli, and OSC Colleagues:
As a resident of Orangetown, New York, I continue to
be very grateful to you and all your OSC colleagues - for your collective hard
work on the Risk Assessment, and for the ongoing Audit of the Village of Piermont
New York and outgoing Mayor Bruce Tucker.
As you know, pursuant to FOIL, OSC recently furnished
to me, inter alia, the Village of Piermont “A/P Cash Disbursements
Journal” for 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 (herein, “Piermont Check Registers”). I
had never seen these documents previously - and I am certain that most Piermont
residents had never seen these documents before, either. Mayor Bruce Tucker
certainly never posted these documents to the “transparent” Piermont village
website previously.
Upon careful examination, it is shocking that
the Piermont Check Registers reveal the following Year 2023 and Year 2024
activity in connection with the following two individuals:
1. Daniel
Goswick Jr. - 05 22 24 - $535.57
(Credit: Unexplained “Bill”).
2. Daniel
Goswick Jr. - 08 14 24 - $535.57
(Debit: Unexplained “Bill
Pmt.”).
3. Michael
Bettman, Jr. - 08 15 23 - $175
(Credit: “Eyeglass Reimb.”, “Bill”, “Bill Pmt.”).
4. Michael
Bettman, Jr. - 09 10 24 - $197
(Credit: “Eyeglass Reimb.”,
“Bill”, “Bill Pmt.”).
The “Eyeglass Reimb.” reference alone suggests that
Mr. Bettman may maintain some work or official role with or in connection
with the Village of Piermont. Indeed, the surnames “Goswick”, “Bettman”, and “Kropp” (see below) appear, as of today, on a publicly-posted Piermont Fire Department page, and it
is possible that the “Goswick” and “Bettman” references correspond to the two recipients of the
above-noted payments:
Although I realize that the subject events cited to
you below occurred well prior to the pending OSC Piermont audit period, and
perhaps even well prior to the commencement of each of your own respective tenures
with OSC - the names “Daniel (Danny) Goswick Jr.” and “Michael Bettman(, Jr.)”
are already well-known to Piermont residents, to local Rockland County and New York
City media, and to the public record. As you will see in the below previously-published links to various
news sources, these two individuals along with an individual named “Sam Kropp” were named
as defendants in civil litigation filed with the United States District Court,
Southern District of New York (Bernstein v. Village of Piermont, Civil Complaint, 11 Civ.
3677 (SDNY 2011, J. Karas); see also Bernstein v. Village of Piermont,
2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 180392, Bernstein v. Village of Piermont, 2013
U.S. Dist. LEXIS 151004), Village of Piermont v. American
Alternative Insurance Corporation,
151 F. Supp. 3d 438, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 169475 (SDNY 2015):
True, no one in the Town of Orangetown would ever
expect OSC to function as a de facto Special Victims Unit with respect
to a decade-and-a-half old series of offenses. However, it would be absolutely
unacceptable if any individuals culpable of the sexual abuse of a minor derived
- much less continued to derive - any profit or other advantage from the
Village of Piermont given this sordid and disgusting history. Therefore, I am
respectfully requesting that the following steps be taken, to the extent that OSC may
have not done so already:
(1). Investigation. A
complete OSC inquiry and investigation should be made, as part of the pending
Audit, into the four above-cited specific journal entries in the Piermont Check
Registers; and
(2). Findings Of Fact. A
complete textual explanation of the findings of fact resulting from that specific inquiry and investigation should be explicitly rendered in any issued OSC Audit
Report arising out of the currently pending and ongoing plenary OSC Audit of
the Village of Piermont and outgoing Mayor Bruce Tucker.
In my view,
the residents of Piermont deserve to know where their money is going, and
particularly, whether and why any of their money is paid out to any known on-record
sex abusers of a minor.
I am not asking that you re-litigate. But I am asking
that you please find out the truth and fold it into your OSC Audit Report.
Thank you, this time in particular, for your careful
consideration of this newly-discovered and painfully-difficult matter.
Very truly yours,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
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