Unhand Piermont!: 2025

Monday, July 14, 2025

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Monday, January 14, 2025

VIA FAX: 1-202-514-3003, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
Criminal.Division@usdoj.gov
Edward P. Sullivan, Esq. – Senior Litigation Counsel
United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division
Public Integrity Section (PIN)
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001 USA

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Edward P. Sullivan, Esq. – Senior Litigation Counsel
United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division
Public Integrity Section (PIN)
1301 New York Avenue, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005 USA

Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont

Dear Attorney Sullivan, and Colleagues:

Further to my prior correspondence regarding the Village of Piermont in Rockland County, New York, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that although the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed by OSC.

My further understanding is that this new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the New York State Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government itself, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php

As background information, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html

Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html

Thank you to you and your colleagues for your attention to this matter.

Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.

"Well, I Guess You're Gonna Have To Go Wake Him Up Now, Won't You?..."

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Monday, July 14, 2025

VIA U.S. MAIL
Jay Clayton – United States Attorney
Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
26 Federal Plaza, 37th Floor
New York, New York 10278 USA

VIA U.S. MAIL
Amanda Leigh Houle - Chief, Criminal Division
Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
26 Federal Plaza, 37th Floor
New York, New York 10278 USA

Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont

Dear US Attorney Clayton, Chief Houle, Chief Coffman, Chief Klein, and Colleagues:

Further to my prior letters regarding the Village of Piermont, New York in Rockland County, and as you may already be aware, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, New York:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that although the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed by OSC.

My further understanding is that this new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the New York State Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government itself, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php

As background information, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html

Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html

Thank you to you and your colleagues for your attention to this matter.

Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.

cc:
VIA U.S. MAIL
Jeff C. Coffman - Chief, White Plains Division
Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
50 Main Street
White Plains, New York 10606-1901 USA

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Benjamin David Klein - Chief, White Plains Division
Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
50 Main Street
White Plains, New York 10606-1901 USA

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Office of the United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
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New York, New York 10007 USA

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Monday, July 14, 2025

VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Christopher.Raia@ic.fbi.gov
Christopher G. Raia, Assistant Director in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
New York Field Office
26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor
New York, New York 10278-0004 USA

Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont

Dear Director Raia, and Colleagues:

Further to my prior letters to FBI regarding Piermont, New York, and as you may already be aware, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, New York:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that although the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed by OSC.

My further understanding is that this new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the New York State Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php

As background information, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html

Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html

Thank you to you and your colleagues for your attention to this matter.

Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.

cc:
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Leslie.Backschies@ic.fbi.gov
Leslie Rodrigues Backschies, Special Agent in Charge
Criminal Investigation Division and Public Corruption Unit, New York Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor
New York, New York 10278-0004 USA

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Christie M. Curtis, Special Agent in Charge
Intelligence and Surveillance Division, New York Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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New York, New York 10278-0004 USA

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Eric J. Reese, Special Agent in Charge
Counterintelligence and Cyber Division, New York Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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New York, New York 10278-0004 USA

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Felix A. Rivera, Special Agent in Charge
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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New York, New York 10278-0004 USA

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Sunday, July 13, 2025

VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Aida.Vernon@ag.ny.gov
Aida Vernon, Esq. - Assistant Attorney General
Public Integrity Bureau
28 Liberty Street
New York, New York 10005 USA

Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont

Dear Ms. Vernon:

Further to our prior communications and as you may already be aware, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, New York:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that although the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed by OSC.

My further understanding is that the new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php

As background information, and as in principal part already familiar, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html

Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html

Thank you for your continued attention to this matter.

Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.

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Law Office of John J. Tormey III, Esq.

John J. Tormey III, PLLC
1636 Third Avenue, PMB 188
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Sunday, July 13, 2025

VIA FAX: 1-845-638-5298, and U.S. MAIL
District Attorney Tom Walsh
Rockland County District Attorney’s Office
1 South Main Street, Suite 500
New City, New York 10956-3549 USA

VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
info@rocklandda.org
Criminal Investigations Unit
Rockland County District Attorney’s Office
1 South Main Street, Suite 500
New City, New York 10956-3549 USA

Re: New York State Comptroller Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont

Dear District Attorney Walsh, and Colleagues:

As you may now already be aware, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) is commencing an Audit of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, New York:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/incorporated-village-of-piermont-new_12.html
This significant action follows what you will recall as OSC’s commencement of a “Risk Assessment” of Piermont in 2024. The “Risk Assessment” was made known to the public some time after its initiation. My understanding is that though the “Risk Assessment” has already taken numerous months, its last portion may itself nevertheless still remain to be completed.

My further understanding is that the new development, though – that is, the OSC Audit of Piermont - has yet to be publicly-communicated by the Comptroller or by any local mainstream media to date. Rather, the OSC Audit of Piermont was instead quietly revealed by Piermont government, appearing to have been buried as “Item #5” in a newly-discovered document recently uploaded to the Village of Piermont’s Internet website reflecting minutes (labeled “DRAFT”) of the Village’s sparsely-attended June 10, 2025 Board of Trustees meeting. You will find a copy of those minutes attached/enclosed hereto with the faxed and mailed copy of this letter. You may also find a copy of the minutes as linked below:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/DRAFT%20BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20June%2010th,%202025.pdf
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/agendas_and_minutes.php

As background information, and as in principal part already familiar to your colleagues, a chronology outlining the harm done by Piermont government to residents in recent years, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-piermont-chronology-step-by-step.html

Additionally, a subject-matter link-list by topic for ease of reference, can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/your-links-to-piermont-new-york-july.html

Thank you for your continued attention to this matter.

Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Resident of the Town of Orangetown, New York

Saturday, July 12, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: New York State Comptroller Commences Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont.

EXCLUSIVE: Thomas DiNapoli’s Office Of The New York State Comptroller (OSC) Is Now Commencing An Audit Of Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Village Of Piermont, NY.

Saturday, July 12, 2025 (PIERMONT, NY)
By “Unhand Piermont!”

This is now a vitally-important concept for residents of the nepotistic and clannish Village of Piermont, many of whom have found themselves conflicted over the past year by dint of their individual past interactions with - and in many cases their misguided fealty towards - outgoing Mayor Bruce Tucker and the other Village of Piermont “officials” who currently populate the Piermont Board of Trustees and Piermont Village Hall. This sordid pool includes the various boards, committees, publications, non-profits, and other interest-groups and individuals that have denigrated themselves as sycophants to do Bruce Tucker’s malevolent bidding over the past seven-plus years of his harmful mayoral reign.

Right now, each and every individual who has enabled Bruce Tucker and his Village Hall lackeys, is vulnerable to the prospect of becoming themselves swept-up in the Comptroller’s audit of Piermont. After all, there are only about 2,500 residents in Piermont, and it has been beyond simple to figure out which ones are the Tucker-philes. Moreover, the existence and progress of the OSC auditing activities will continue to be reported-out to county, state, and federal agencies with law enforcement power including the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office, the New York State Attorney General’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. All of them.

This situation may get much worse before it gets any better - not just for the Village and Bruce Tucker, but also for any individual possessing the requisite lack of judgment needed to choose to continue to associate with Tucker. Therefore, I republish the call to any and all whistleblowers, below. If you have any knowledge of any malfeasance by Mayor Bruce Tucker or others within Village of Piermont government, past or present, you are urged to report what you know to the Office of the New York State Comptroller.

After all, better that you bring it to them, than they bring it to you:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/tell-it-to-tom.html

Thank you for your attention to this matter, which is very important to all of Rockland County, New York.

John J. Tormey III, Esq.

"Unhand Piermont!"

2025 07 01: Comptroller FOIL Response Extension.

2025 06 16: Comptroller FOIL Response Extension.

2025 06 03: Second FOIL Receipt Confirmation.

2025 05 25: Second FOIL To Comptroller.

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FURTHER REQUEST UNDER THE NEW YORK STATE
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW (“FOIL”)

Sunday, May 25, 2025

VIA FAX: 1-518-473-8940, and U.S. MAIL
Jane Hall, Records Access Officer
State of New York, Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC)
110 State Street, 15th Floor – Press Office
Albany, New York 12236-0001 USA

VIA FAX: 1-518-473-8940, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
foil@osc.ny.gov
Jennifer Freeman, Deputy Comptroller – Communications
Colin Bradt, Deputy Comptroller – Chief Information Office
State of New York, Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC)
110 State Street, 15^th Floor - Records Access Office, Communications
Albany, New York 12236-0001 USA

VIA FAX: 1-518-486-6479, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
localgov@osc.ny.gov
Andrea C. Miller, Executive Deputy Comptroller – Audit & Policy
State of New York, Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC)
Division of Local Government
110 State Street, 12^th Floor
Albany, New York 12236-0001 USA

Re: FURTHER FOIL Request – The Village Of Piermont, New York

Dear Ms. Hall, Ms. Freeman, Ms. Miller, Mr. Bradt, and OSC Colleagues:

- INTRODUCTION -

Further to my prior Thursday, November 14, 2024 FOIL request to your OSC office (FOIL Request #2024-0958), your response to which is still apparently pending –

Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker just admitted on-record on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 in a public Piermont Village Board of Trustees meeting, that at least one OSC Auditor has been reviewing Tucker’s and Piermont’s finances, books, and records. My understanding is that the Auditor to whom Mayor Tucker referred must be your own OSC colleague Mr. Brian Sheevers, copied on this letter with others in your agency. I further understand that Mr. Sheevers and OSC first initiated a “Risk Assessment” action as against Mayor Tucker and the Village of Piermont - on a date some months ago which had to have been prior to Thursday, November 21, 2024:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/newsflash-office-of-new-york-state.html

This in turn leads me to believe that the below Tuesday, May 13, 2025 quotation from Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker below must refer to a second, more recent phase of the OSC “Risk Assessment”, and perhaps indicative of what is now a full-blown and well-deserved OSC audit of unscrupulous Mayor Bruce Tucker and Piermont’s finances.

- THE TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2025 TRANSCRIPT -

Here is the verbatim transcript of what Mayor Tucker said on-camera before the Village Board of Trustees and Piermont residents on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The “youtube” video-link with “in/out” time-code is also provided, immediately hereinbelow, for your reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPiGL7j42Y
[Time-Code 00:53:20 to 00:54:04]
Piermont Village Board of Trustees Meeting
Piermont Village Hall, 478 Piermont Avenue
Piermont, New York 10968 USA
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Mayor Bruce Tucker (speaking):

“…‘Item Number 10’ – ‘Establish A Restricted Fund Account For Capital Expenses And Review Resolution To A Fund Balance Policy’…

“This was at the… [Uh]… As I mentioned at the last meeting… [Uh]… There is a State… [Uh]… Auditor who’s been here… for a few weeks now and… [Um]… He’s been making recommendations along the way… [Um]… One of the recommendations that he’s made is that we do a Resolution in the event that the “Un-…” …[Uh]… the “Un-…” …[Um]… “[-]Specified[sic] Fund Balance” is over a certain percentage”. [Vocalized pauses as in original] [Bold-faced emphasis supplied].

Despite the fact that Mayor Bruce Tucker was unable to accurately state the phrase “Unassigned Fund Balance” even with notes physically in front of him, it is obvious from the context that he meant “Unassigned Fund Balance” when he stated “Un-…” …[Uh]… the “Un-…” …[Um]… “[-]Specified[sic] Fund Balance”.

- MY SUPPLEMENTARY FOIL REQUEST -

That said - as you are aware from prior correspondence, I am an attorney in New York, and a citizen and resident of the Town of Orangetown and the County of Rockland. Under the New York State Freedom of Information Law:
http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/foil2.html
and, as may be applicable, its state, federal, and other counterparts, including without limitation New York Public Officers Law, Article 6, Sections 84-90, and Title 5 of the United States Code, Section 552 (collectively herein referred to as “FOIL”), request is hereby made that each of you provide to this, my law office, full and complete copies of each and every document and other item of material dated or otherwise generated from January 1, 2024 forward to the present day (collectively, “Records”) which may be at all responsive to the following requests:

1. Records Of All The “Recommendations”. All Records, of any kind or nature, of the multiple “recommendations” which Mayor Bruce Tucker has now admitted have been made and communicated to him by the Auditor or by OSC otherwise.

It should be noted here that, to date, Mayor Tucker has only come forward to the public with but one of those multiple “recommendations” - that is, only the “recommendation” to impose a 20% cap on Piermont’s Unassigned Fund Balance - which recommendation Mayor Tucker proceeded to flout and disregard anyway, as explained herein:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-bruce-tuckers-us367938.html

It is obvious to all concerned Village of Piermont and Town of Orangetown residents that, by disclosing but only one of the multiple OSC “recommendations”, Mayor Bruce Tucker is intentionally concealing the rest of them from the Piermont resident taxpayers. Yet it is their money which is affected and at stake. It is therefore in the public interest that this FOIL receive an OSC response immediately and without any delay.

2. Definition Of “Records”. “Records” should be construed in the broadest sense and manner possible and should include “any information kept, held, filed, produced or reproduced by, with or for (your agency or office)... in any physical form whatsoever...” (FOIL,§86[4]) including without limitation all audio recordings, blog posts, correspondence, data maintained electronically, data, e-mails, executive summaries, extracts, faxes, instant messages, Internet posts, letters, log-book entries, memos, paper records, personal messages, social media communications, spreadsheets, summaries, synopses, telephone records, test-reports, visual recordings, and any other materials:
http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/foil2.html#s86

3. Headings And Subheadings. The headings and subheadings used in this letter are for convenience of reference purposes only, and should not be construed to be words of limitation or otherwise of any substantive significance relative to this FOIL request.

4. Costs. If there are any copying or other fees for this, please let me know what they are and how they are calculated, before filling the request and forwarding the Records to me. As this FOIL should be considered a matter of public importance, and as its results will be shared with the general public and published, I am asking that any otherwise-applicable fees be waived for this document-production. I am also asking that all documents be provided to me electronically to the full extent possible, so as to obviate the need for any photocopying expense.

5. Denials And Appeals. In the event that any portion of my request is denied, please inform me of each of the specific reasons for any such denial in writing - and provide me with the name, address, and other contact information of the person or entity to whom an appeal should be directed.

6. Additional Requests. This FOIL request is not intended to be exhaustive, and I foresee making additional and follow-up requests.

I will appreciate a response from you and your office as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you shortly. Thank you.

Respectfully, and with thanks,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.

cc:
VIA FAX: 1-518-474-1927, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
coog@dos.ny.gov
NYS Committee on Open Government (COOG)
Department of State
One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Avenue, Suite 650
Albany, New York 12231 USA

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bsheevers@osc.ny.gov
Brian Sheevers - Auditor 3 (Municipal)
Office of the State Comptroller (OSC)
Local Government and School Accountability　
33 Airport Center Drive, Suite 102 - Newburgh Regional Office
New Windsor, New York 12553 USA

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lnewhall@osc.ny.gov
muni-newburgh@osc.ny.gov
LGSA-Audits@osc.ny.gov
Laura A. Newhall – Auditor 3
Office of the State Comptroller (OSC)
33 Airport Center Drive, Suite 102
New Windsor, New York 12553 USA

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New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
Office of the New York State Comptroller - Albany Office
110 State Street
Albany, New York 12236 USA

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jfreeman@osc.ny.gov
press@osc.ny.gov
Jennifer L. Freeman, Communications Director
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
Office of the New York State Comptroller - New York City Office
59 Maiden Lane
New York, New York 10038 USA

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eburgess@strategen.com
Edward Burgess – Director
Strategen
10265 Rockingham Drive, Suite #100-4061
Sacramento, California 95827 USA

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InspectorGeneral@osc.ny.gov
Lucy Lang, Inspector General
Office of the New York State Comptroller – Inspector General
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
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Brian Sheevers - Auditor 3 (Municipal)
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Re: The Deliberate Flouting Of A Critical OSC Recommendation By Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker

Dear Mr. Sheevers, and OSC Colleagues:

An unfortunate new development directly pertains to your Office of the New York State Comptroller - and your recent “Risk Assessment” and auditing activity taken as against the Village of Piermont, New York and its current lame-duck Mayor Bruce Tucker. I would urge you and your colleagues to please review the below-linked blog-post containing newly-materializing raw documents, and take appropriate action as against Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker and the Village of Piermont accordingly. I cannot understand how Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker can get away with deliberately flouting a vital OSC financial recommendation for the sake of his own malevolent purposes and self-serving political advantage. The blog-post detailing this matter is linked here:
“Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker's US$367,938 Scam.”
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-bruce-tuckers-us367938.html

The bottom line?:

1. Bruce Tucker is deliberately flouting your OSC recommendation that he cap the Piermont “Unassigned Fund Balance” to 20% of the total Piermont budget.

2. By “virtue” of Tucker’s decree of a 25% cap instead, Bruce Tucker seeks to keep a roughly-calculated incremental US$367,938 in his “Unassigned Fund Balance” on-hand equivalent. This is big money relative to the Village of Piermont.

3. From all appearances, Mayor Tucker seeks to artificially prop-up Piermont’s profile to the bond market and Wall Street, as well as hedge against the possibility that he and Piermont will be compelled to refund grant monies already obtained from other government agencies. It is currently an open question how and on what basis these “refundable” grant monies may have been obtained by Tucker and Piermont, and whether any such grant monies were obtained lawfully and appropriately:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-bruce-tuckers-us367938.html

4. Meanwhile, Bruce Tucker is the same hapless village mayor who took Piermont into a US$9,000,000 retrograde Net Position hole since 2018 - who allowed the tip of the iconic Piermont Pier to crumble into the Hudson River through fault of his own negligent inattention over the 7+ year period that followed - who then begged Piermont residents for their money to remediate the Pier tip - and who upon information and belief even deployed associated non-profit “Piermont Civic Association” to beg Piermont residents for US$10,000 for Christmas lights this past winter. The man is utterly without shame. His past financial history is to same effect. Bruce Tucker is the self-same guy who was busted by Good Housekeeping, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlanta Constitution for wholesaling sheets with falsified thread-counts to the retail garment industry - whose Elizabeth New Jersey restaurant economically failed almost as soon as it opened - and who then converted the oft-empty restaurant to a “lounge” which then ran like a gangland hangout, terrorizing a residential neighborhood and evoking harsh reprobation from the City of Elizabeth therefor.

Even as of today, Mayor Bruce Tucker remains a threat to his own Piermont neighbors. I urge you and your colleagues to take every lawful action to stop Bruce Tucker from doing even more damage to the Village of Piermont, its finances, and its residents.

Thank you for your continued attention to this matter.

Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Resident of the Town of Orangetown, New York

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2025 05 14: Garmento Mayor Tucker's US$367,938 Scam.

PIERMONT MAYOR BRUCE TUCKER’S US$367,938 SCAM.

At this point in time, all of Piermont, Orangetown, and Rockland County know that Auditors from the New York State Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) have been all over Mayor Bruce Tucker’s books and records.

Reports are that OSC spent at least a month at Piermont Village Hall poring over the books and records of the 2,500-resident village and its lame-duck Mayor. The NYS Comptroller’s “Risk Assessment” was triggered by, inter alia, (1) Mayor Bruce Tucker’s strident refusal to timely file financials for inclusion in the OSC Fiscal Stress Monitoring System for each prior year of his term since 2018, and (2) Mayor Bruce Tucker’s rank mismanagement of Piermont finances leading to an approximate US$9,000,000 loss in Net Position over Tucker’s 7+ years in office.

1.
It therefore may seem counterintuitive to hear Bruce Tucker laud 0% tax increases for some Piermont homes this year. Yet Tucker is not running for re-election as Mayor, and Tucker’s Board of Trustees enemy Nate Mitchell is running for Piermont Mayor unopposed. Therefore, Mayor Tucker is simply kicking the can down the road - seeking to set up his sworn adversary Nate Mitchell for a massive Piermont tax increase in 2026. Bruce Tucker’s disastrous reign as Mayor of Piermont will remain the gift that keeps on giving.

2.
It therefore may also seem counterintuitive to read that at least one of the Auditors from the New York State Comptroller’s Office called-out the fuzzy-set accounting of Bruce Tucker and the Village of Piermont, for maintaining an “Unassigned Fund Balance” that was too big:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-garmento-mayor-bruce-tucker.html

You will recall that this is the same “Unassigned Fund Balance” in the dollar-amount of US$3,210,196, which Bruce Tucker touted last year to, inter alia, justify the upkeep of the Village of Piermont’s bond rating. This is the world of arcane municipal finance for you. A public official like Bruce Tucker who cannot even prevent the Piermont Pier from crumbling into the Hudson River, begging residents for donations therefor - a public official like Bruce Tucker who deploys a Piermont non-profit to beg residents for a lousy US$10,000 for Christmas lights a few months ago - now slammed by the New York State Comptroller for, in essence, keeping too much cash on hand.

Yet look more carefully and calculate.

The New York State Comptroller Auditor advised Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker to limit his Unassigned Fund Balance to “20% of the total budget”.

But Tucker, on-record on April 15, 2025, deliberately disregards the carefully-considered recommendation of the NYS Comptroller Auditor. Bruce Tucker, the man who failed at seemingly every business venture in which he ever engaged since college, essentially replies “No, I’m taking 25% instead - and if a balance exceeds 25%, then I can use it for capital project emergency repairs.”:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-garmento-mayor-bruce-tucker.html

Mayor Tucker then has a Resolution prepared to that effect that reads like this, and sets it up for a May 13, 2025 Board of Trustees vote:

So this all raises the key question. What is the Village of Piermont “total budget”?

Well, a review of a document posted to the Village of Piermont Internet website titled “2026 Adopted Budget - Village of Piermont 04-15-2025” does not actually use the phrase “total budget” anywhere in its 13 pages:
https://www.piermont-ny.gov/government/clerks_office/fiscal_budget.php#outer-44sub-333

However, on the first and last page of that 13-page document, we find parallel bold-face all-CAPS references to both “TOTAL REVENUES INCLUDING TAXES” and “TOTAL GENERAL FUND”, each in the identical dollar-amount of US$7,358,767. Therefore, if only for the sake of this mathematical exercise to follow, let’s use that US$7,358,767 dollar-figure, for now, as the equivalent of OSC’s intended “total budget” number. (That said, if someone furnishes me a credible larger number, then I will re-calculate and re-post to this Blog – but I know that a “total budget” by definition would have to be either equal to or else larger than either Piermont “total revenues” or “total general fund” for the year).

The NYS Comptroller Auditor therefore advised Bruce Tucker that the Piermont “Unassigned Fund Balance” should be limited to “20% of the total budget” – or, in this case, limited to the dollar-figure of US$1,471,753 (and forty cents).

Whoa... First, keep in mind that this US$1,471,753 is less than half of the US$3,210,196 “Unassigned Fund Balance” that Bruce Tucker claimed and took last year in 2024, in order to try to hypnotize the Wall Street bond market into acquiescence to the continuation of Piermont’s artificially-enhanced bond rating. Obviously, the NYS Comptroller Auditor became wise to Bruce Tucker’s charade in this regard during the recent “Risk Assessment” of Piermont’s finances commencing in 2024. Now, Wall Street will become wise to Tucker’s charade, too - and I know the guy that will tell Wall Street.

Therefore, we start with the fundamental proposition that Bruce Tucker is desperate to try to artificially prop-up Piermont’s financial picture, to make Piermont look richer than it is – all while his pathetic Pier tip is crumbling into the Hudson River. So, what does Bruce Tucker do? He deliberately defies the NYS Comptroller Auditor’s recommendation, and seeks to enact a “25% of the total budget” cap on the Unassigned Fund Balance instead of a “20% of the total budget” cap.

Now, 5% may not sound like much of a differential to you in the abstract, but as those in government finance or wealth management should already be well aware, it really depends upon what you are multiplying that 5% against.

Bruce Tucker’s ipse dixit inflated 25% of a US$7,358,767 Piermont “total budget” is US$1,839,691 (and seventy-five cents).

Now, subtract the Comptroller’s more reasoned “20% of total budget” figure - US$1,471,753 - from Tucker’s US$1,839,691… US$1,839,691 minus US$1,471,753…

You arrive at US$367,938.

That’s right. By deliberately and blatantly contravening the clear recommendation of the NYS Comptroller Auditor, and by therefore using a self-servingly inflated 25% cap in lieu of a 20% cap, Bruce Tucker is in effect seeking to claim and keep an incremental US$367,938 cash-on-hand equivalent as an additional “Unassigned Fund Balance”. That’s not mayoral discretion. That’s a scam.

Sure, Tucker could be remitting this same dollar-amount back to the overtaxed Piermont residents. But he’s not.

Sure, Tucker could be following the NYS Comptroller Auditor’s advice. But he’s not.

Bruce Tucker wants to pretend to Wall Street that Piermont is economically-sound. But it’s not.

For that matter, beyond Bruce Tucker’s US$367,938 scam perpetrated upon Piermont residents, the NYS Comptroller, and the Wall Street bond market, could there be even further additional reasons why Bruce Tucker thinks that he needs to keep an incremental US$367,938 cash-on-hand equivalent?

Yes. Yes there are.

I.
Bruce Tucker and the Village of Piermont are about to get tied-up in a series of Article 78 litigations and other civil lawsuits - over his contemptible overdevelopment initiatives, falsified environmental certifications, and the inept mishandling of Piermont’s first-ever Comprehensive Plan. Those litigations will cost money. Tucker also may need to pay off further or outstanding costs and fees relating to the senseless prior litigation that he already fomented last year.

II.
Based upon admissions made by Bruce Tucker and by Piermont’s publicist-“planner” Max Stach, as of April 15, 2025, Piermont grant monies were in danger of being required to be refunded back to the original grantor or grantors – in particular, if Piermont needed to indicate a “Pos Dec” or “Positive Declaration” in connection with the environmental assessment of its Comprehensive Plan:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/dumping-max-stach-its-gas.html

This scenario could also in theory materialize, if the rushed Village of Piermont “adoption” of the flawed and typo-ridden Comprehensive Plan on April 29, 2025 is later adjudicated to be fatally-defective and therefore void ab initio. A citizen inquiry has commenced into the questions as to how Bruce Tucker and the Village of Piermont may have “obtained” grant monies prematurely from other state and federal agencies, and whether Bruce Tucker or anyone else may have made misrepresentations in order to snatch that grant money:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/hey-sylvia-meet-mister-grant.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/sure-he-may-be-flounder-but-hes-our.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/sylvia-gets-jammed-up.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-aim-is-true-all-right.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/and-bruce-has-fun-fun-fun-till-his.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/high-above-cayugas-waters.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-grant-monies-back-to-nard-dog.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/dumping-max-stach-its-gas.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-piermont-grant-money-inquiry.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/your-hometown.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-grant-money-dug-up.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/more-otown-for-piermont-and-garmento.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-county-wide-search-for-piermont.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/soil-and-water.html

In other words, Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker is desperate.

He is desperate to try to keep monies on-hand as a hedge against his own long-standing recidivist pattern of malfeasance.

I grant you, he is still in office, and he has not completely crashed and burned. Yet.

Yet please remember, Piermont residents. When Bruce Tucker blows through any of that incremental US$367,938 that he just wrested away from the New York State Comptroller recommendation – that was your money that he blew through.

2025 05 13: Garmento Mayor Bruce Tucker Transcript.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPiGL7j42Y
[00:53:20 to 00:54:04]
Piermont Village Board of Trustees Meeting
Piermont Village Hall, 478 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York 10968 USA
May 13, 2025

Mayor Bruce Tucker:

“‘Item Number 10’ – ‘Establish A Restricted Fund Account For Capital Expenses And Review Resolution To A Fund Balance Policy’.

“This was at the… [Uh]… As I mentioned at the last meeting… [Uh]… There is a State… [Uh]… Auditor who’s been here… for a few weeks now and… [Um]… He’s been making recommendations along the way… [Um]… One of the recommendations that he’s made is that we do a Resolution in the event that the “Un-…” …[Uh]… the “Un-…” …[Um]… “[-]Specified Fund Balance” is over a certain percentage”.

2024 12 20: Comptroller FOIL Response Extension.

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Friday, December 6, 2024

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Brian Sheevers - Auditor 3 (Municipal)
Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC)
Local Government and School Accountability　
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New Windsor, New York 12553 USA

Re:
The Current “Risk Assessment” Of The Village Of Piermont NY, By The NYS Comptroller’s Office

The Apparent Possible Disappearance Of US$3,200,000+ In Public Funds In The Lower Hudson Valley

Dear Mr. Sheevers:

Although I believe that you have been previously furnished most of this information from your colleagues already, I thought it appropriate to forward you a write-up addressed to you directly, for your file.

Further to my prior communications with your OSC colleagues, I have updated information about Piermont for your review. In my opinion, these new items, taken together, may signify a possible and yet-unexplained disappearance of US$3,200,000+ in public funds, once managed by the Village of Piermont New York government and its current Mayor, one Bruce Edward Tucker, an infamous former garment industry sheet and towel wholesaler out of Elizabeth, New Jersey:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-and-rainbow.html

1. Piermont Village Government And Bruce Tucker Are Currently Operating Under OSC “Risk Assessment”. As you are already aware, Mayor Bruce Tucker and Piermont village government are operating under a current “Risk Assessment” by your Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC):
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/newsflash-office-of-new-york-state.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/bruce-tucker-of-whole-cloth.html
During his mayoral reign, Mayor Bruce Tucker and Piermont government appear to have spent unsuspecting Piermont village residents into a negative US$7,600,000 “Net Position” deficit while concealing financials from the Village’s website for approximately four years. As you know, Mayor Bruce Tucker and the Village of Piermont then failed to timely furnish financial information to OSC for inclusion in OSC’s Fiscal Stress Monitoring System, even after an extended deadline - thereby permanently preventing inclusion therein:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/that-time-when-bruce-tucker-sandbagged.html

2. Mayor Tucker Bragged About Piermont’s Financial Condition In An April 2024 Meeting. In an April 16, 2024 Village of Piermont Board of Trustees public meeting, while engaging in what appears to have been false braggadocio about the Village’s financial condition, Mayor Bruce Tucker stated that the Village maintained a surplus of US$3,200,000+ million dollars as an “unassigned Fund Balance”:
See “Incorporated Village or Piermont, Board of Trustees Meeting”, April 16, 2024 Minutes, Page 4 of 8, at:
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/document_center/Agendas%20&%20Minutes/2024/Minutes/BOT%20Meeting%20Minutes%20April%2016%202024.pdf
Yet in that same meeting Mayor Tucker shiftily refused to convey the bulk of that fund balance back to Piermont taxpayers who were just hit with a 6.9% tax increase:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/08/watch-as-mayor-bruce-tucker-blows-away.html

3. Mayor Tucker Also Bragged About Piermont’s Financial Condition To A Local Rag. Mayor Bruce Tucker repeated the same boastful claim in a subsequent interview with the Rockland County Business Journal (“RCBJ”), a local blogged website notorious for running mouthpiece items for Rockland County public officials:
https://rcbizjournal.com/2024/07/30/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-talks-about-controversy-engulfing-his-village/

4. Mayor Tucker And Piermont Government Now Appear To Plead Poverty. Faced more recently with the reality of the imminent collapse of, and needed repair or replacement of, the tip of the historic, iconic, and well-beloved Piermont Pier, Mayor Tucker and Piermont Village Hall are now, in effect, pleading poverty. Press reports indicate that the Piermont Village Board is “investigating the possibility of potential [g]rants[emphasis added] that may be available to replace” the crumbling Piermont Pier section:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/attention-piermont-residents-your-mayor.html
Moreover, Mayor Bruce Tucker himself was quoted in this November 29, 2024 LoHud/Journal News article as pathetically begging for money to replace the crumbling Pier tip. Said Mayor Tucker:

“The Village Board was working on obtaining cost quotes to replace the concrete portion, which includes seeking grants… ‘We are going to need some major money here’, Tucker said. ‘If anyone has any money, we’d love to talk to them’”. [Emphasis added]:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/piermont-piers-final-section-closed.html

5. One Of The Tucker-Associated Non-Profits Is Begging People For US$10,000. Upon information and belief, Bruce Tucker and the Village of Piermont government use two apparent not-for-profit entities to front certain of their efforts and activities throughout the year. As I understand it, Mayor Bruce Tucker maintains a close connection to both entities. These entities are:

- “Piermont Civic Association” (501[c][3], IRS ruling year: 2014, EIN: 80-0916072):
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/800916072

- “Piermont Historical Society” (501[c][3], IRS ruling year: 2007, EIN: 56-2597821):
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/562597821/202331299349202958/full

I am not yet able to locate an on-file Form 990 for “Piermont Civic Association”.

“Piermont Historical Society”, on the other hand, lists an address of “44 Piermont Place” in Piermont, New York on its most recent Form 990, which is also Mayor Bruce Tucker’s residential address.

In any event, in perhaps the most unabashed of recent actions, Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont, through the apparent instrumentality of Piermont Civic Association, appears to be now openly soliciting US$10,000 in funds for Christmas lights directly from Piermont residents and others on social media. Piermont Civic Association actually requests that donors either mail their checks to, or else drop them off at, Piermont Village Hall at 478 Piermont Avenue. Piermont Civic Association further requests that the checks be made out to “Village of Piermont”:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/12/just-make-your-checks-payable-to.html

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This all raises what I believe to be a valid question worth further OSC exploration.

If Mayor Bruce Tucker and the Village of Piermont already have US$3,200,000+ effectively banked as an “unassigned Fund Balance”, then why are they begging for donors for Piermont Pier repair and even for US$10,000 worth of Christmas lights?

Thank you, to you and your colleagues, for your continued attention to the Village of Piermont, New York and its innocent and previously-unsuspecting residents.

Respectfully submitted,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.