[Depicted above: Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker]
Outgoing lame-duck Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker has
again misled his once-trusting Piermont New York neighbors. For many months now,
Bruce Tucker has willfully and intentionally concealed major material
developments from his constituents concerning Village Hall’s use of their tax
dollars, and concerning the Risk Assessment and Audit performed on the Village
of Piermont by Tom DiNapoli’s Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC).
Additionally, Mayor Tucker has colluded with other government officials in Piermont
Village Hall including “Chief Fiscal Officer”, “Treasurer”, and Village Clerk
Jennifer DeYorgi Maher, to deceive innocent Piermont resident taxpayers as to
the various and sundry destinations of their hard-earned taxpayer monies, and
the scope and breadth of OSC’s meticulous, extensive, and exhaustive Risk
Assessment and Audit activity.
Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker and his companion “CFO/Treasurer”
Jennifer DeYorgi Maher intentionally let out the news of the New York State Comptroller’s
Risk Assessment and Audit over the last several months, as if they were slowly
letting air leak out of an over-filled tire. On May 13, 2025, Bruce
Tucker made comments during a public meeting at Piermont Village Hall
premeditatively designed to deceptively minimize and downplay the seriousness
and scope of OSC’s auditing activities. Quoth Tucker, in his inimitable
Elizabeth, New Jersey whiskey-barrel throated accent:
“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]”:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-conceals-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-25-second-foil-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-14-garmento-mayor-tucker.html
[Emphasis added].
Mayor Tucker then proceeded to disclose only but one
(1) of the OSC “recommendations” as having been made by a single individual
male anonymous OSC Auditor – to wit, a “recommendation” relating to an obviously-excessive
“Unassigned Fund Balance” which Tucker had previously taken:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-in-stew.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-bruce-tuckers-us367938.html
Yet this little monologue was just another Bruce Tucker
canard.
In point of actual fact, the New York State
Comptroller’s Risk Assessment and Audit have been enormous undertakings,
ongoing for almost a full year now, handled by a veritable army of no less than
TWENTY-THREE (23) OSC auditors and officials. All their names are in the
voluminous OSC FOIL-produced work file, and I counted. Moreover, the
Comptroller audit continues, to this day, and is not expected to conclude
anytime soon – meaning that this particular supernova will likely expand much further
before it ever starts to contract. Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker has yet again purposefully
misled the Piermont resident taxpayers. By his inartful words, and by his
omissions, Tucker misled Piermont about the scope and breadth of the OSC audit.
Tucker therefore misled Piermont residents about the status of taxpayer money and the rank
dysfunction of Piermont village government over the seven-plus years of his seamy
mayoral reign.
Similarly, you will recall how Piermont’s “Chief
Fiscal Officer” and “Treasurer” Jennifer DeYorgi Maher purposefully played down
the seriousness and scope of the New York State Comptroller Audit on June
10, 2025 as well – as follows:
[At 00:13:10 – to 00:13:52]
[Addressing the Piermont Village Board and the Piermont taxpaying resident public]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uEm2g_T2Pc&t=845s
“We also have a letter from the State Comptroller’s Office… [Um]… Our… Auditors will be back this week to do ‘Procurement’… And that was the last piece and then… [Um]… The letter that… that… we received… I think the… that the Board received… is that they will be doing an Audit… They’re gonna contact us for a conference… They’ll identify what areas they’re gonna audit… [Um]… And that [Unintelligible]… [well they say]… [all different areas]… maybe…[Um]… And they’ll identify that… So there’s that… [Um]…
And that’s all that I have… [Emphasis added].
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/thus-spaketh-village-yorg-piermont.html
This Jennifer DeYorgi Maher “statement” was a gross
attempt to mislead Piermont residents. I know. After all, a few days ago I
received a FOIL production of what appears to be the Comptroller’s whole
work-file through May of 2025. That work-file contains almost 600 separate “.pdf”s,
spreadsheets, and other documents. One of those documents is over 2,000 pages
long. The majority of all those documents appear to have been routed through
Jennifer DeYorgi Maher herself and through her Village of Piermont e-mail account,
as for the most part Mayor Bruce Tucker was too cowardly to field the
Comptroller inquiries himself.
Yet on June 10, 2025, DeYorgi Maher would have
Piermont residents believe that “Procurement” was the “last piece” – and then?... What?...
“That’s all that I have”?...
Well, let me now tell you the facts that Piermont
Mayor Bruce Tucker and his evasive and guileful sidekick Jennifer DeYorgi Maher
are thusfar far too afraid to tell you.
I sorted the 600 OSC-produced Risk Assessment and
Audit documents into individual categories and digital file-folders. Here,
below, are the items and categories that the New York State Comptroller had
already scrutinized through May of this year in OSC’s Risk Assessment,
Audit, and law enforcement investigation of Bruce Tucker’s Village of Piermont
– alphabetized as a numbered list.
You will note that there are no less than one
hundred and six (106) OSC-examined categories.
Looks to me like Jennifer DeYorgi Maher and Garmento
Mayor Bruce Tucker, respectively, each “missed” one hundred and five (105) of
those one hundred and six (106) categories apiece, when they counted.
Maybe those two are not so good with numbers after
all.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-conceals-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-25-second-foil-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-14-garmento-mayor-tucker.html
[Emphasis added].
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-in-stew.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-mayor-bruce-tuckers-us367938.html
[Addressing the Piermont Village Board and the Piermont taxpaying resident public]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uEm2g_T2Pc&t=845s
“We also have a letter from the State Comptroller’s Office… [Um]… Our… Auditors will be back this week to do ‘Procurement’… And that was the last piece and then… [Um]… The letter that… that… we received… I think the… that the Board received… is that they will be doing an Audit… They’re gonna contact us for a conference… They’ll identify what areas they’re gonna audit… [Um]… And that [Unintelligible]… [well they say]… [all different areas]… maybe…[Um]… And they’ll identify that… So there’s that… [Um]…
And that’s all that I have… [Emphasis added].
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/thus-spaketh-village-yorg-piermont.html
New York State
Comptroller Audited Items And Categories
For The Village Of Piermont, New York:
2. 5-Year Capital Plan.
3. Accountants And CPAs Used By The Village.
4. Accounting Software.
5. Annual Financial Report Delinquency.
6. Annual Financial Reports (AFRs).
7. Audit Reports (Internal).
8. Banking.
9. Board Of Trustee Agendas.
10. Board Of Trustee Meetings.
11. Budgets.
12. Capital Projects.
13. Capital Projects Funds.
14. Capital Reserve Funds.
15. Cash Disbursements.
16. Cash Receipts.
17. Check Signatures – Electronic.
18. Check Signatures – Manual.
19. Clerk Duties.
20. Collective Bargaining Agreements.
21. Constitutional Tax Limits.
22. Contact-Management Systems.
23. Contacts With Other Municipalities.
24. Correspondence – Citizens.
25. Correspondence – FOIL.
26. Courts.
27. Data-Mapping.
28. Deposit Detail.
29. DPW Equipment.
30. Earnings Breakdowns.
31. Employee Lists.
32. Employees.
33. Employment Agreements.
34. Enhanced Reporting Of Payroll.
35. Financial Audits (Internal).
36. Financial Statements.
37. Firefighters.
38. Fiscal Oversight.
39. Fiscal Stress Monitoring System (Stress Monitor).
40. Follow-Up Inquiries.
41. Handbooks.
42. Information Technology (IT).
43. Insurance.
44. Law Enforcement Measures.
45. Leaf Blower Law.
46. Length Of Service Award Program (LOSAP).
47. Local Training.
48. Max Stach.
49. Mayor Bruce Tucker.
50. Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Questionnaire.
51. Minutes Of Meetings.
52. Municipal Bond Anticipation Notes (BANs).
53. Municipal Bond Debt.
54. Municipal Bond Issuances.
55. Municipality User Accounts.
56. Nelson Pope Voorhis.
57. New York Conference Of Mayors (NYCOM).
58. New York State And Local Retirement System (NYSLRS).
59. Overtime.
60. Payroll.
61. Payroll - Heartland.
62. Payroll - Transition To Enhanced Reporting.
63. Payroll Certification Reports.
64. Payroll Reports.
65. Policies.
66. Procurement.
67. Purchasing.
68. Questionnaires For Board Of Trustee Members.
69. QuickBooks.
70. Reconciliation Detail.
71. Reconciliation Summaries.
72. Reports From The Village.
73. Reserves.
74. Retirement.
75. Revenues.
76. Safety Measures.
77. Security Measures.
78. State Aid.
79. Sylvia Welch.
80. Tax Assessments.
81. Tax Assessments – Final Assessments.
82. Tax Bills.
83. Tax Collection.
84. Temporary Municipal Assistance (TMA).
85. Training.
86. Transaction Detail By Account.
87. Transportation.
88. Treasurer Reports.
89. Trial Balance Reports.
90. Trustee Christine McAndrews.
91. Trustee Mark Blomquist.
92. Trustee Michael Wright.
93. Unassigned Fund Balances.
94. Village Clerk Jennifer DeYorgi Maher.
95. Village Contact-Information.
96. Village Directory.
97. Village Employee Absences.
98. Village Employee Leaves.
99. Village Employee Leaves - Accruals.
100. Village Employee Sick Days.
101. Village Employee Vacation Days.
102. Village Notes.
103. Warrants.
104. Warrants - Reports.
105. Workday And Reporting Resolutions.
106. Workers Compensation.
2. 5-Year Capital Plan.
3. Accountants And CPAs Used By The Village.
4. Accounting Software.
5. Annual Financial Report Delinquency.
6. Annual Financial Reports (AFRs).
7. Audit Reports (Internal).
8. Banking.
9. Board Of Trustee Agendas.
10. Board Of Trustee Meetings.
11. Budgets.
12. Capital Projects.
13. Capital Projects Funds.
14. Capital Reserve Funds.
15. Cash Disbursements.
16. Cash Receipts.
17. Check Signatures – Electronic.
18. Check Signatures – Manual.
19. Clerk Duties.
20. Collective Bargaining Agreements.
21. Constitutional Tax Limits.
22. Contact-Management Systems.
23. Contacts With Other Municipalities.
24. Correspondence – Citizens.
25. Correspondence – FOIL.
26. Courts.
27. Data-Mapping.
28. Deposit Detail.
29. DPW Equipment.
30. Earnings Breakdowns.
31. Employee Lists.
32. Employees.
33. Employment Agreements.
34. Enhanced Reporting Of Payroll.
35. Financial Audits (Internal).
36. Financial Statements.
37. Firefighters.
38. Fiscal Oversight.
39. Fiscal Stress Monitoring System (Stress Monitor).
40. Follow-Up Inquiries.
41. Handbooks.
42. Information Technology (IT).
43. Insurance.
44. Law Enforcement Measures.
45. Leaf Blower Law.
46. Length Of Service Award Program (LOSAP).
47. Local Training.
48. Max Stach.
49. Mayor Bruce Tucker.
50. Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Questionnaire.
51. Minutes Of Meetings.
52. Municipal Bond Anticipation Notes (BANs).
53. Municipal Bond Debt.
54. Municipal Bond Issuances.
55. Municipality User Accounts.
56. Nelson Pope Voorhis.
57. New York Conference Of Mayors (NYCOM).
58. New York State And Local Retirement System (NYSLRS).
59. Overtime.
60. Payroll.
61. Payroll - Heartland.
62. Payroll - Transition To Enhanced Reporting.
63. Payroll Certification Reports.
64. Payroll Reports.
65. Policies.
66. Procurement.
67. Purchasing.
68. Questionnaires For Board Of Trustee Members.
69. QuickBooks.
70. Reconciliation Detail.
71. Reconciliation Summaries.
72. Reports From The Village.
73. Reserves.
74. Retirement.
75. Revenues.
76. Safety Measures.
77. Security Measures.
78. State Aid.
79. Sylvia Welch.
80. Tax Assessments.
81. Tax Assessments – Final Assessments.
82. Tax Bills.
83. Tax Collection.
84. Temporary Municipal Assistance (TMA).
85. Training.
86. Transaction Detail By Account.
87. Transportation.
88. Treasurer Reports.
89. Trial Balance Reports.
90. Trustee Christine McAndrews.
91. Trustee Mark Blomquist.
92. Trustee Michael Wright.
93. Unassigned Fund Balances.
94. Village Clerk Jennifer DeYorgi Maher.
95. Village Contact-Information.
96. Village Directory.
97. Village Employee Absences.
98. Village Employee Leaves.
99. Village Employee Leaves - Accruals.
100. Village Employee Sick Days.
101. Village Employee Vacation Days.
102. Village Notes.
103. Warrants.
104. Warrants - Reports.
105. Workday And Reporting Resolutions.
106. Workers Compensation.
