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Feds Arrest Seven, Including some Rabbis, in $14M Monsey/Kiryas Joel Funding Scam

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Shield of the Dept of JusticeBy Jonathan Dienst  NBC 4 New York

Published 46 minutes ago | Updated 9 minutes ago

Seven Monsey and Kiryas Joel residents – including some rabbis – were arrested Wednesday in connection with an alleged $14 million dollar rip-off of a federal school technology funding program, federal prosecutors said. The FBI arrested the seven for allegedly stealing money meant to help underprivileged children.

Prosecutors said the suspects lied to claim they were serving as independent consultants and vendors to help obtain and provide telecommunication services to private religious school students across Rockland County. Federal dollars would come from the federal E-Rate program which is funded by the FCC. But investigators said the services were never provided with the seven allegedly stealing much of the money from 2010-2016. [Read more…]

Ramapo contaminated soil case heads to trial

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Massive piles of dirt from the Rockland Sewer District No. 1’s decade-long expansion project that were placed in Sloatsburg’s Community Field nearly a decade ago have been removed.
(Photo: Michael D’Onofrio/The Journal News)

If the high-profile contaminated soil case goes to a jury trial, jurors will have to decide if Ramapo removed any contaminated soil as it was contracted to do and if it billed the local sewer district for the work regardless, a judge ruled this week. [Read more…]

CUPON Chestnut Ridge meeting Monday Nov 6

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The monthly meeting of the Chestnut Ridge CUPON will be Monday November 6 at 7pm at the South Spring Valley Fire Department, 26 Red Schoolhouse Road. There will be updates on all ongoing issues and more. And don’t forget to vote Tuesday Nov 7, and make some phone calls to friends and relatives–this election is critical.

Ramapo ex-inspector Anthony Mallia gets no jail time, won’t pay restitution in plea deal

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Judge David Zuckerman Photo/The Journal News

“Anthony Mallia, the former Ramapo building inspector charged with 188 counts of undercharging contractors for permits and shortchanging taxpayers by $150,000 in the process, won’t serve jail time and won’t have to make restitution, a judge decided today.

Mallia, 53, pleaded guilty to two counts. He pleaded guilty to first-degree tampering with public records, a felony, and was promised by the judge a sentence of five years probation. He also pleaded guilty to official misconduct and will received three years probation. The sentences will be be served concurrently when Mallia is sentenced Oct.  31. He waived his right to appeal. [Read more…]

St. Lawrence trial: Moody’s, the Ballpark, Withers tomorrow

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St. Lawrence trial day four: Steve Lieberman  The Journal News

“On the stand: Thomas Myers, a private attorney who worked with the RLDC and the town on the stadium bond completed his testimony this morning. Next up was Lee, who worked for Moody’s on their ratings on Ramapo bonds from 2010-2012. The latter part of the afternoon was mostly taken up with the testimony of Ken Lehner, managing partner and president of Bottom 9 Baseball, the corporation behind the Rockland Boulders baseball team. The last witness of the day was Councilman Patrick Withers, who had only just begun testifying when court broke for the day.

Key testimony: Lehner described efforts to build the stadium, which he said was dogged from the start by a challenge by Preserve Ramapo, and later faced funding and financing problems. [Read more…]

CUPON Chestnut Ridge meeting Monday Night

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The Chestnut Ridge CUPON monthly meeting will take place on Monday February 13 at 7PM  at the South Spring Valley firehouse. Our mayor will be attending to address some of our recent concerns and no doubt encourage residents to vote in the upcoming Village elections.

Get your Resign Now signs

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Sign Resign nowThe date for St. Lawrence’s federal trial is fast approaching. Jury selection will begin on April 17, and Judge Cathy Seibel has declared there will be no further delays granted to St. Lawrence’s lawyers. There are 30 witnesses who will paint a pretty vivid picture of the corruption in the Town of Ramapo, and the trial will likely last more than a month.

We still have some of our Resign Now lawn signs. You can request one by sending your name and address to spookrock@gmail.com.

Plant one in your front yard to remind  the neighbors and those driving by that the dismantling of the corrupt Ramapo machine is under way. [Read more…]

Ballpark audit firm shown the door at County–ERCSD next

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The second shoe has dropped. As the County Legislature prepared to make way for the removal of the auditing firm tainted by the federal fraud charges filed against Ramapo, the company decided to quit before they could be fired. Next is an account that needs some serious additional scrutiny. O’Connor Davies has done the East Ramapo audits for a school board already accused of misplacing millions. [Read more…]