New York State Comptroller (OSC) Catches Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker Lying Through His Garmento Teeth Again.

I caught outgoing lame-duck disgraced Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker lying through his teeth to his constituents, again. Yet that’s just a case of “Same As It Ever Was”.
 
What is real news this time, though, is that the Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) caught Bruce Tucker doing it, too.
 
Here is the verbatim transcript of what Mayor Tucker said on-camera before the Village Board of Trustees and Piermont residents four+ months ago on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. You can watch Bruce in action at the below “YouTube” video-link, a little less than an hour into the video. “In/out” time-code is also provided for your ease of 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-face emphasis supplied].

 
The vocalized pauses alone tell you this guy is making it up as he goes along. In any event, as you would expect, that odd-sounding (not to mention inarticulate) Bruce Tucker run-on sentence prompted me to dispatch a Sunday, May 25, 2025 FOIL request to the Comptroller’s office, supplementary to my first FOIL, which read like this:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-25-second-foil-to-comptroller.html
 
Well, guess what just came back today? The Comptroller’s written response to my second FOIL request.
 
And it is FABULOUS:

“THOMAS P. DiNAPOLI
STATE COMPTROLLER
 
STATE OF NEW YORK
OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER
110 STATE STREET
ALBANY, NEW YORK 12236
 
PRESS OFFICE
Tel: (518) 474-4015
Fax: (518) 473-8940
 
September 24, 2025
 
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Law Office of John J. Tormey III, Esq.
1636 Third Avenue, PMB 188
New York, NY 10128
 
Re: FOIL Request #2025-0490
 
Dear John J. Tormey III, Esq.,
 
This is in reply to your email dated 05/25/2025, receipt of which has previously been acknowledged, wherein, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law, Article 6), you requested information on “recommendations” made to Mayor Bruce Tucker.
 
Personnel have informed me that after a diligent search, they have been unable to locate any records that satisfy your request.
 
Please note, as you state, OSC conducted a risk assessment and has not yet completed an audit of the Village. Under governing audit standards, recommendations are not provided to local government officials in connection with a risk assessment. Rather, recommendations are provided to local officials at the conclusion of the audit, and a final report, including the Village’s response, is publicly posted on OSC’s website once the audit is final.
 
Sincerely, Jane Hall
Records Access Officer”
[Bold-face emphasis supplied].

That’s right.
 
According to the New York State Comptroller Records Access (FOIL) Officer, according to the New York State Comptroller Press Office, according to the New York State Comptroller personnel who searched, and according to New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli pursuant to Mr. DiNapoli’s name on this letter – “recommendations” are not provided to the government officials like Bruce Tucker while the Risk Assessment and the Audit are actually taking place. 

Rather, “recommendations” are only provided to the government officials like Bruce Tucker after the Risk Assessment and the Audit are concluded. The Comptroller's Audit of Bruce Tucker and the Village of Piermont is still ongoing.
 
So why did Bruce Tucker lie to the entirety of the Piermont public about Comptroller “recommendations” that were actually never made? Probably because Tucker realized that he was in the process of getting caught during the OSC Risk Assessment trying to squirrel-away monies in a scheme otherwise unbeknownst to most, and therefore had to provide a public on-record reason for the enactment of an out-of-the-blue “Resolution” to provide cover for his own Garmento backside. A last-ditch effort. 

Maybe one of Bruce's brilliant luminary Village Hall “colleagues” made this procedural suggestion to him in the first instance. If so, it was racketeering at its finest.
 
Bruce Tucker then hastily processed a “Resolution” which he thought would afford him and his Village Hall turkey-vultures a scam US$367,938 de facto slush fund:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-15-tormey-to-comptroller.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-05-14-garmento-mayor-tucker.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/piermont-garmento-mayor-bruce-tucker.html

It takes a special brand of chutzpah to try to blame the New York State law enforcement agency currently auditing you for “recommending” the structure of your own disingenuous financial scam, when you already know that the same New York State law enforcement agency never actually made any “recommendations” to you of any kind.

It also takes a special brand of Jersey garmento stupidity to think that the same law enforcement agency won’t catch up to you. Or that I wouldn't.
 
Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker. 

Sure he may be a dirtbag. 

But he’s OUR dirtbag.