Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker - In The Stew.

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Thursday, May 15, 2025
 
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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
 
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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Office of the State Comptroller (OSC)
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New Windsor, New York 12553 USA
 
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Albany, New York 12236 USA

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Office of the New York State Comptroller - New York City Office
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New York, New York 10038 USA
 
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New York, New York 10038 USA
 
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New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
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