DA Must Investigate Throughly Corrupt New Rochelle Board of Ethics.
Westchester DA Mimi Rocah needs to deliver justice for the people of New Rochelle from the throughly corrupt New Rochelle Board of Ethics.
@Mimirocah1 @WestchesterDA
I am the victim of a crime. I am looking to the DA for justice from the throughly corrupt New Rochelle Board of Ethics.
My complaint against Yadira Ramos-Herbert for her illegal vote on @Sustainable_914 was compromised starting with BOE Member David Blumenthal, who has a history of routinely violating the attorney-client relationship invoked under §4503 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules, and the relevant sections of the New York State Public Officers Law Article 6 §87 (access to agency records), and New York State Public Officers Law Article 7 §108 (exemptions/executive session), and more.
I have asked Darius Chafizadeh of HarrisBeach, the lawyer hired by Kathleen Gill to act as outside counsel to the BOE, to explain why he allowed David Blumenthal to retain his own attorney, Stanley Bernstein.
And why Bernstein was given access to confidential information and records in the BOE investigation.
And why Bernstein was allowed to rip up a final decision of the BOE against Ramos-Herbert on 3/25/24 and dictate a new one exonerating Ramos-Herbert based on preposterous, mendacious, legally unsound terms, and then held that tainted document for weeks, until the day after Gill resigned on 4/9/24.
Darius Chafizadeh has not replied.
If the New Rochelle Board of Ethics, established under NYS law (GML 18) and enshrined in the New Rochelle City Charter is to be gutted by the likes of Blumenthal, Bernstein, Noam Bramson, Yadira Ramos-Herbert, and others, then why have a City Charter or New York State ethics law at all?
There is no small irony that an ethics board is corrupt but this is no small matter.
I would remind you that you let Noam Bramson off the hook for illegally attempting to remove Kathleen Gill from her job in 2022. He then took another bite of the same apple in 2023 (anonymous letter) and then another in 2024 (this time successful).
If you allow him off the hook now you are sending a message I am sure you do not want to send — corruption pays.
The people of New Rochelle look to you to deliver justice from political bullies. Do not fail them.
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