On Friday, I obtained a copy of the petition submitted to the New Rochelle City Council by Robin Sherman during the November 12th Citizens to be Heard Session which purports to show strong support for Forest City/Ratner’s Echo Bay Development Project. Not surprisingly to those familiar with how Forest City works to manipulate local communities to advances its projects, the petition is rife with fraud.
Robin Sherman Petition (37 MB PDF File)
We have already documented the ways in which Ms. Sherman falsely represented herself to the City Council and the public during CBTH — failing to mention that she works for a company owned by Bramson New Rochelle IDA appointee Greg Merchant and portraying herself as an East End resident when she had only moved into an apartment on Stonelea two weeks earlier after many years living in the North End.
Ms. Sherman claimed to have submitted over 500 signatures from her “neighbors” who support the project. A review of the petition signatures indicates that this 500+ figure overstates the number significantly and just 4 of those list East End addresses and could be considered Ms. Sherman’s neighbors.
The correct legal definition of a valid signature for a petition in New York State would be a registered voter who prints their name and full address on a petition form and signs it and that the person collecting the signature signs a witness affidavit on each form containing signatures.
So, while Ms. Sherman is referring to signatures there are actually no valid signatures among the set of documents she submitted to the City Council last Tuesday. For purposes of this article I will place the term “signatures” in quotation marks to indicate that there is some sort of mark on a line next to the word “name” which may or may not be legible and there is some sort of address that can be verified. So, when you see the term “signature” in this article understand that to mean a soft approximation of a line in a form or email that is being represented by Ms. Sherman as an actual signature. If this is confusing, then you understand the issue with the documents submitted by Robin Sherman; the issue is more clear if you take some time to skim through the petition documents to see the many variations of problems that exist with what she purports to be signatures in the documents she filed with City Council.
There are a wide range of problems with the various “signatures” as can be seen in the following examples:
To better evaluate the petition, I hand-keyed the information on the petitions into a spreadsheet so that it could be analyzed. Feel free to download and run your own analysis which you can post in the comments.
Talk of the Sound Data and Analysis of Robin Sherman Petition(197 KB XLS File)
Here is what I found:
Of the 546 “signatures” claimed, 206 of them had no printed name and 471 of them had no signature.
285 of the “signatures” were not dated and some that were dated were “out of order” or “wrong” in some way suggesting some sort of monkey business.
406 of the “signatures” do not indicate a full address at all or indicate an address not in New Rochelle.
Even when I looked up all of the street addresses and added back “New Rochelle” for what I believed to be actual New Rochelle addresses there were still 87 “non-New Rochelle” addresses.
15 of the signatures give an address in the Bronx, 2 give a Larchmont address, and there is 1 each from Mount Vernon and Port Chester. These people are not New Rochelle residents let alone “neighbors” of Ms. Sherman.
46 of the names appear to have been forged; multiple “signatures” written in the same handwriting (click samples below for an example of a few of the forged “signatures”)
8 of the names appear twice, once each on two different versions of the petition.
New York State does have legal requirements for petitions to government.
In this case, the “petition” is not really a petition in the legal sense but more an expression of sentiment that is not legally binding such as would be the case for a petition filed to place a name on a ballot or to file for a referendum. In short, the rules for such petitions do not apply.
However, it is worth noting that as a legal matter, not a single “signature” was legally witnessed because the forms used to collect the petitions do not have an affidavit form at the bottom. There is no way to know who collected the petitions or whether the “signatures” are from actual people or fabricated. In fact, there are clear indications that dozens of the “signatures” were written by the same person while many others are simply form-generated emails.
Another project for another day would be to look up the potentially valid “signatures” to determine if those people are registered voters, a legal requirement for submitting signatures to the government in New York State.
Also not a legal matter but another problem with the petition is that it is not actually one petition but three different petitions; what I have labeled the “short” petition, the “long” petition” and the “email” petition. There are 306 “signatures” on the short petition, 108 on the long petition and 132 on the email petition.
The Short Petition (306)
To the New Rochelle City Council:
I support the Echo Bay development project because it is going to open up the waterfront and spark economic development downtown. I urge the city council to approve this project as soon as possible.
Thank you
The Long Petition (108)
To the New Rochelle City Council:
I support the Echo Bay development because it will jumpstart our city’s economy and enrich residents’ quality of life.
This project will transform wasted waterfront space into a new downtown destination, complete with a community park, luxury apartments, new shops and restaurants.
The project will also create jobs, generate new tax revenue for schools and city services, and spark additional development.
Echo Bay is a true win-win for our community and I urge you to move forward with its approval.
Thank you.
Email Petition (132)
Dear New Rochelle City Council: I support Echo Bay!
The Echo Bay development project will jumpstart our city’s economy and enhance residents’ quality of life.
This project will transform wasted waterfront space into a new destination, complete with a community park, luxury apartments, new shops and restaurants.
The project will also create jobs, generate new tax revenue for schools and city services, and spark additional development.
Echo Bay is a true win-win for our community.
I SUPPORT the Echo Bay development project and urge the New Rochelle City Council to move forward with its approval.
The long version and the email version are very similar which suggests they were generated from the same source.
That source would be Forest City itself which had sent out an email blast prior to the City Council meeting asking people to complete their email form:
http://www.echobayny.com/petition.html
Their email message read as follows:
Dear Neighbors,
Many of you have been looking for ways to get involved and help the Echo Bay project progress forward.
We plan on submitting a petition in favor of Echo Bay to the New Rochelle City Council – and we need your signature!
Click here to sign the petition now and urge the City Council to move forward on Echo Bay!
Don’t forget to share the petition with your friends, family, and co-workers!
For more information, check out our website at http://www.echobayny.com/ and, of course, if you have any questions email us anytime at echobay@forestcity.net.
Your neighbors,
The Echo Bay Team
Just 132 people bothered to make even this minimal effort to support the project.
As indicated previously, as a legal matter, none of the 546 “signatures” are valid because none of them are witnessed by the person who collected the signatures. This may have something to do with Forest City’s role in collecting some of the signatures at the New Rochelle train station.
Even ignoring this, there are 206 with no printed name and 471 with no signature. There are 285 with no date and 406 that do not state the person is from New Rochelle.
For purposes of analysis, I will ignore the lack of witness affidavits, the lack of dates and addresses and assume for a moment that all of the names and signatures come from the actual people indicated and that where a New Rochelle address is or likely is indicated that the person really is from New Rochelle. And we will count any names where we can sort of guess the name but are not sure. And we will count names where we cannot make out a name but have what appears to be a valid New Rochelle address.
What remains is a very generous category of “potentially valid” signatures, most if not all of which would be thrown out if these were petitions for a ballot initiative or candidate.
If I start with the 546 “signatures” claimed by Robin Sherman then disqualify “signatures” based on the following criteria — no name and no signature, non-New Rochelle address, “signatures” which appear to be in the same handwriting, names that appear twice — there are just 404 signatures left. Keep in mind that some names may be disqualified on more than on criteria.
Of the 546, we can remove 5 that do not have name or signature with because they are blank or illegible. We can then remove 87 which do not indicate a New Rochelle address (including the 19 which indicate the Bronx, Mount Vernon, Larchmont and Port Chester). There are 46 names which are clearly written in the same handwriting which can be thrown out. There are 16 names which appear twice so if we remove half of them as “dupes” we can toss out 8 more. So, 142 “signatures”, 26%, can be disqualified on these grounds leaving 404 “signatures” under the most charitable criteria possible when legally none of them are valid.
How do the 404 potentially valid signatures break down?
122 of the 404 (30%) have no signature.
285 of the 404 (71%) do not state “New Rochelle”.
Property owners who oppose the Echo Bay Project may be interested to know that more than a fifth of the “signatures”, 114 by my count, are from people who live in housing that is tax-payer subsidized and, in many cases, do not pay property taxes directly or live in tax-abated or non-taxed property. This includes New Rochelle IDA tax-abated property (e.g., Avalon 1 & 2), HUD/Section 8 Housing (e.g., Carrington Arms) and New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority (e.g., Hartley Houses).
76 of the 404 (19%) do not pay property taxes or otherwise get significant government housing subsidies from the federal government and other government agencies to live in New Rochelle.
A few thoughts…
Based on my experience in New Rochelle what this appears to be is three sets of “signatures”:
1. Names collected at the New Rochelle Train Station by Forest City.
2. Names collected in District 3 in the area around Lincoln Avenue among the African-American community — or what I would call a Jared Rice/Kwame Dixon production predicated on the false promise that Forest City will deliver jobs to the black community in New Rochelle.
3. An email blast that went out among the Mayor’s North End/Democratic Party base from Forest City.
I am always interested in the “Dogs Not Barking”, in this case, who is NOT on the list is perhaps more that who is on the list.
1. No member of the school board signed.
2. Westchester County Clerk and former New Rochelle Mayor Tim Idoni did not sign.
3. New Rochelle Democratic Chairperson Arnie Klugman did not sign (he reportedly came out publicly against the project on WVOX on Columbus Day)
4. Bramson acolyte Mitchell Tarnopal did not sign.
5. The only City official I see who signed is Bennie Giles. Perhaps there are more but that was the only one.
Please add your own names if you notice any people you might expect to be on the list but are not.
I believe even a cursory review of Robin Sherman’s “petition” will suggest to readers such a transparent attempt at fraud that it suggests she, and those behind this effort, were not concerned with being found out.
They may not be wrong.
If you look at the Journal News coverage, Ned Rauch reported that Sherman submitted 550 signatures of people supporting the Echo Bay project.
News 12 showed just two people speaking at CBTH, Robin Sherman and James O’Toole, which would suggest to the uninitiated that opinion was split at CBTH when in fact Sherman was the only one out of about 30 speakers who supported the Echo Bay project.
If you are Forest City and Greg Merchant you might well believe “mission accomplished”.
My New Neighbor Robin Sherman
I really should make an effort to meet my new neighbor. Perhaps a welcome basket would be appropriate. I will drop off information about Echo Bay and see if she would be willing to put a No Echo Bay sign on the lawn in front of her apartment building. I cannot believe of all the apartment buildings in New Rochelle, she would choice to live in the East End. Are we lucky or what!
I just purchased a rake and will put her name on it, so she can help us clean up the Sun Haven circle this Saturday. It is all part of being a good neighbor.
Who would like to sign the welcome card? Do not worry I will sign all our names. No one will be the wiser.
Unscrupulous
Considering Robin Sherman is a registered attorney admitted in the Second Department in 1986, I imagine she should have known better than to present this “almost fictitious” petition to City Council.
Perhaps this is an issue for the Departmental Disciplinary Committee (grievance committee). More to follow.
For a Harvard grad, Bramson
For a Harvard grad, Bramson is a moron.
You Appear Jealous of Noam’s Harvard Education
Posters who throw meaningless personal insults at our local politicians, tend to do so because those Posters are weak on the issues.
You come across as jealous of Noam’s education. What great university did you attend, that makes you feel intellectually superior to a Harvard law school graduate?
Here comes the Spin
Hey Sussman-
If you’re going to jump in here, finally, after not a squeak out of your yap since your boy got his ass kicked from one end of this county to the other last week, get your facts straight about your hero.
Bramson is as much of a Harvard Law School graduate as you are. Neither one of you could find your ass with both hands in a courtroom.
Sussman seems a bit hot under
Sussman seems a bit hot under the collar.
It is John Imburgia who is hot under the collar.
Actually, it is clearly you who is hot under the collar.
I just dislike reading personal insults here, as they are meaningless, serve no intelligent purpose, and are distracting from the very issues you are so concerned about. This is just as true of ther petty personal insults thrown at Mayor Bramson or President Obama or at myself, by persons here such as by yourself.
Brian,
You clearly fell off
Brian,
You clearly fell off the wagon again and I’m sorry about that, but let me fill you in on what’s been going on in your absence. Bramson, the Harvard grad who you are so fond of, pulled one of the most unethical moves I have seen a mayor of NR pull in my entire life. He pulls a council woman into a room in order to pressure her into changing her vote in order to get his pet project built, regardless of whether is good or bad for the city. Moreover, his actions nearly caused a riot and his protégé, Barry Fertel, tried to instigate a fight–something which neither he nor Bramson has yet to apologize for. In addition, his “vision” for Westchester and the city has been clearly rejected by the voters. If he cannot accept that, then I suggest he step down and find another job. Until then, I have no respect for you or ANY politician who would use such underhanded tactics both on the Echo Bay issue and during his failed bid for County Executive.
I am completely above board.
I read about the Council meeting at TOTS, LoHud and Patch, but did not see the video. I appreciate that Shari and Ivar voted to table Forest City until 2014, and realize that she changed her vote on the tabling. I hope to see Ivar and Shari vote against Forest City, and believe if they stick to that position, that within a few months the City Council will reject it altogether.
You can cite no under-handed tactics of mine, as I am completely above board. I have no personal, professional, political advantages or disadvantages in what I advocate for or against.
I am more likely to directly question or dispute a Democratic politician’s knowledge and perspectives, than that of a Republican politician. That is partly because most of our local, state and federal elected officials are Democrats, and also because I frequently have the opportunity to do so at our monthly NR Democratic Committee meetings (such as last week). I see many other local Democrats also raising questions and seeking solutions. And we do get answers. There’s democracy among Democrats.
Regarding the recent County Executive election, I await the WBOE publishing the complete details of the election, so I can determine the demographic and geographic nature of the voter turnout. That will be available within a few months. The election results could have occurred for many reasons, and not necessarily the reasons you attribute. Depending on what conclusion I draw, I might explain it here at TOTS, or more discretely discuss it only with other Democrats.
I’m more concerned about the 2014 congressional elections, and that the Democrats can regain a majority of the House of Representatives, than of losses in the 2013 county elections. National polls show that most Americans are fed up with all politicians, but are more unhappy with Republican congressmen, so next year might prove very exciting and unpredictable throughout the USA.
Brian not completely above board
Brian, I must question your being “completely above board”. Noam had the largest GOTV (Get Out The Vote) campaign ever seen in Westchester (I’ll bet you were part of it). He purposely reserved enough campaign finances to focus on GOTV. Noam conceded very early, as he did in the Tocci race, because he had strategic people placed at polling places he needed to win by specific margins. When the numbers were not conducive to a winning campaign Noam conceded. While the BOE does not have the certified results the overall story of the election can be written with certainty. Noam spent a great portion of his campaign funds in the Washington, D.C. area for campaign issue strategy. That think-tank recommended the Obama national approach and totally ignored the Tip O’Neil all politics is local mantra. Noam did get his ass kicked for many reasons; Noam doesn’t understand his local constituents and because Noam is a big fish swimming in a little pond. His NR Democratic, mostly north-end followers could afford higher taxes and propelled him to his last 79% mayoral victory. County-wide, most constituents can’t afford Noam’s vision or record of creating new fees and raising taxes. That is the short version and then there are sub-plots like Noam losing Yonkers 59% to 41%. Yonkers has a super majority of Democratic registration. I believe African Americans sat this one out because Noam disrespected Ken Jenkins. Jenkins paid his dues on the county level and should have been the Dems choice. Not to mention, Noam barely won his hometown of New Rochelle by 53% to 47%, a 26% DECREASE from his last mayoral election. All of this information was available at latest NR Dem meeting you identifed.
What’s most interesting to me was that Tim Idoni only won by the same 53% to 47% over a candidate who had no money and did little to no mailings and or commercials. The thing that must be most upsetting to NR Democrats is the loss of Mary Jo Jacobs to County Legislator Sheila Marcotte. NR Dems had the perfect storm heading into Election Day. Noam & Tim running, a two-to-one registration advantage, every major NY Democratic politician endorsing Noam and even former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, stumped for Noam and Noam was humiliated by a 12% thrashing. So the NR Dems had all these “coat-tails” plus the registration advantage and Mary Jo still lost by 4%. To me, this reveals the awakening of people, regardless of political affiliation, who vote with their pocketbooks. They have awakened to the realization that everyone wants to help the disadvantaged but they can’t do it at the expense of their family’s survival. They can’t continue to absorb higher taxes and watch their homes be foreclosed. They can’t afford higher taxes when they don’t have the means to pay the electric bill. Noam had a great vision for Westchester, as he does for New Rochelle, but the fly in the ointment is that along the way, Noam’s path results in many being left behind or forced to move. The Echo Bay debacle was a tale of things to come for Noam accompanied by the Armory & Don’t Tread On Me Flag debacles that outraged Veterans and to my surprise, I was educated about Noam’s treatment of NR African Americans by the Zuber Riders.
When Noam’s blue smoke and mirrors cleared, it was Noam’s record of failed development, higher taxes, new fees and a disconnect with the middle-class that lost the election. There was a clear and strong message sent by Westchester voters and that was; government needs to live within our means. Astorino’s record of reducing spending, smaller government and protecting property owners from HUD propelled Rob to a decisive victory. Astorino has become a master of doing more with less and that’s what the taxpayers of Westchester have had to accomplish personally in the current economic downturn. Taxpayers related to Astorino and realized the disconnect with Bramson.
I am awaiting the WBOE to finish counting votes
Anthony,
I have read your post. It is better than most comments I have read at TOTS, because you have avoided meaningless hyperbole and insults, and instead are analytic and reporting what you believe to be facts.
I am above board. I was not very focused on the County Executive Election, which I assumed would be an easy win for Noam, and only spent a few days assisting. I totally misread that election, starting with my being surprised that Ken Jenkins had not received the nomination at the Westchester Dem Committe convention last Spring. I then assumed that if Noam was able to get the nomination that he would also be able to get elected.
As I had written, I am awaiting the WBOE to finish counting votes, and to publish the final summary of votes by municipalities, districts, machine ballots, absentee ballots and affidavit ballots. I am aware WBOE is still counting absentee ballots, but am unsure if they began counting affidavit ballots. When they have completed their tallies, the WBOE will publish the detailed results as pdf files, on the WBOE website. Their website is clumsy and difficult to navigate, and those pdfs are hard to locate.
I already have about 12 years of those pdfs, and will compare past results to this year’s after this year’s is published. I will probably then request electronic data, either actual spreadsheets or as a database. I will then import that data into my own database and create SQL queries to discover the particulars hidden within the data. This probably won’t be until early in 2014 at best.
Depending on what I find, I may or may not agree with you, regarding ethnic and geographic phenomena within the election results. I had already indicated that in my previous TOTS post that you are responding to.
Although I believe Ken Jenkins, himself, did support Noam’s campaign, and that Noam’s campaign was supported by the newspaper ‘The Westchester County Press’ I am uncertain what actually occurred in Yonkers, and as to whether that was due to geography, ethnicity, intra-party politics, inter-party politics, economics, none-of-the-above, some-of-the-above, or all-of-the-above. I am curious about the results in Mt Vernon, Greenburgh and Yorktown, this year as compared to 2009, and to compare the 2013 County Executive results to that of the 2013 County Clerk.
Doing this might reveal geographic and ethnic issues that affected the 2013 election. But I don’t know how to use the election results to determine, to what extent taxes were an issue determining the outcome of the election.
Certainly, anyone living in multiple family dwelling rental apartments in New Rochelle, Mt Vernon or Yonkers is largely unaffected by property taxes, and those voters probably would be unaffected by such tax issues.
My gut feeling, is that taxes and other Tea Party issues, such as the historically obscure Gadsden Flag, were not major issues resulting in the election’s outcome. But on those issues, there is no way to know one way or the other.
– Brian
Scully Noam Graduated Harvard. Did you even attend it?
Scully, I never attended Harvard, nor applied to it. The same is probably true of yourself.
Mayor Bramson Noam did graduate Harvard. I may have been in error regarding his having a law degree. President Obama also graduated Harvard. They have much to be proud of.
What’s your problem with people graduating from Ivy League schools?
Although I am not an attorney, I am well read, and pretty knowledgeble on some law, including NY ETPA, CPLR, CPL, VTL, USC & FRCP. I am also well read on US constitutional law, and Richardson on Evidence.
You seem proud of your own education, whatever that might be. Perhaps you are well read on law and procedure too, or perhaps not. One doesn’t have to have a degree and can be self-educated, and I respect those who are. Tell us, what state or federal laws are you knowledgeable on?
Ivy League schools are expensive and difficult to get into (unless one is a child of a wealthy alumni such as GW Bush at Yale). But anyone graduating an Ivy League School had to be intelligent, and received an excellent education.
Certainly Noam Bramson is a well-educated, intelligent person. You might not agree with what he wants to do, but perhaps the fault lies with teh basis of your opinion and not with Noam.
You’d be wise to stop throwing personal insults at people, as it lowers everyone’s respect for you, and damages whatever it is you wish to advocate.
Sussman on Bramson
Dear Mr. Sussman:
I feel the need to comment on your post. Yes, the Mayor is an intelligent, well-educated man. However, he suffers from narcissistic personality syndrome and is in need of help. Anyone who waterboards a member of Council and bullies just about everyone who doesn’t do things his way is psychologically challenged. Perhaps talk therapy and meds are in order.
The only problem is, when one is in therapy, they have to recognize the fact that the therapist is the smarter one in the room.
For Forest City to be or not to be, is the question
Amy Heyman,
Are you a psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst or other professional with expertise on personality disorders? If so, what is the nature of your expertise?
If you do not have such professional expertise, then I and everyone else must take your description of Noam as being your personal opinion and not necessarily founded on professional psychological descriptions of personality. Obviously, you are entitled to your opinion, but that doesn’t mean you are factually accurate.
I dispute your stated assumption that “when one is in therapy, they have to recognize the fact that the therapist is the smarter one in the room”. If Sigmund Freud or Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman were in therapy, each of those geniuses might well be much smarter than their therapist.
The therapist’s advantage would not be his own intelligence, nor would Freud’s therapist necessarily be expected to be more expert on narcissism than would be Freud himself. The therapist’s great advantage would be that he/she is not his/her own patient. However, the therapist would be subject to human errors in opinion or could be basing conclusions on inaccurate or unfounded or outdated disputed beliefs.
Regarding the latest TOTS mantra, no one was waterboarded by anyone in city hall, and use of such hyperbole is obnoxious and counter-productive. Waterboarding is a specific, abhorrent torture used by the USA against Filipino nationalists in the 1920-30’s and in Afghanistan by the USA against Afghanis in the 2000’s.
What you mean to describe, would be more accurately stated as that Mayor Noam Bramson took Councilwoman Shari Rackman aside, and convinced her to change her vote tabling a bill. That is run-of-the-mill politics that frequently happens in every legislative body in the USA, and is how the democratic process works throughout the USA, and no doubt also in most other democracies on a regular basis.
Compare that to the infamous caning into unconsciousness of Senator Charles Sumner by Representative Preston Brooks, in Congress on May 22, 1856.
Personally, I have never supported the Forest City Echo Bay ‘development’, nor moving City Yard to Beechwood, and I have often spoken and written against it in a variety of venues.
I strongly urge the NR City Council to reject the Forest City ‘development’ and to find a better location for City Yard other than Beechwood.
Whether or not a decision is tabled until 2014, is unimportant, compared to the real issue of whether the final decision is of rejection or acceptance. I expect that final decision to be within the next few months.
How can you not realize that Shari Rackman’s changing her vote to not tabling a decision to 2014, could well result in the City Council rejecting Forest City sooner than if it had been temporarily tabled?
If Noam did put too much pressure on Shari, isn’t that something that could ultimately be the very factor compelling her to reject Forest City?
– Brian
Rejecting Forest City
Brian –
I agree with your last comments.
On another note, however, after looking back at a good number of your past posts, I see that you take pleasure in “baiting” people and then engaging them. Please consider me unengaged!
Thanks, Amy
Personal insults diminishes importance of the issues
It’s not that I am baiting, but rather that occasionally I nibble at some of the baiting that others post at TOTS.
When one attacks the person, rather than policies of that person, it reduces the focus on the questioned policies. It then appears that the poster simply dislikes a policy, because it is associated with the person being attacked, rather than policy itself being abhorrent.
I am referring to the many personal attacks on Noam, repeatedly posted at TOTS by a few people.
But I am also referring to those who appear in the national media, making a vast quantity of obnoxious personal attacks on Barack Obama, our President, much of it apparently racist in origin.
If one doesn’t like the President’s or Mayor’s policies, then criticizing the policies themselves, is the most effective way of modifying or eliminating those policies.
But when instead, one attacks the personality of our President or Mayor, that is likely to result in a defensive reaction by that President or Mayor, which probably results in continuation of the very policies at issue.
An Army Corp of Engineers Echo Bay report raises serious issues that must be investigated, but it doesn’t personally attack anyone. In comparison, when one calls our Mayor a narcissist, that is an unnecessary personal attack, that does absolutely nothing to prevent Forest City at Echo Bay, while diminishing the importance of the actual issues.
I will defend Noam Bramson from personal attacks, while encouraging questioning of the issues.
Yale
Yale
The people behind this RUSE
The people behind this RUSE are either dumb or they just assume that we are dumb and so is the City Council if they give any of this any credence.
Bramson should be embarrassed because to have Greg Merchant be behind this shows how the IDA of New Rochelle is all about Bramson and in fact it is unethical.
Here is the Link to the NY State Comptrollers office so concerned Citizens can bring this matter to the attention of the Fraud division.
Report Government Waste, Abuse or Fraud
1-888-OSC-4555 or 1-888-672-4555 (Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.)
Email: investigations@osc.state.ny.us
The Comptroller has had their hands full dealing with NR-IDA this may just slam the lid on the dirty dealing as the word is they are on the verge of being disbanded.
New York State Office of the Inspector General
http://www.ig.state.ny.us
With enough people filing reports on these dirty deals we can put an end to the deceit.