SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE OMAR MCDOWELL RECEIVING FOOD STAMPS WHILE DRIVING $100K VEHICLE

School District Shame

CORRUPT SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE
OMAR MCDOWELL

School Board Trustee Omar McDowell hit a new low Tuesday, and it is now clear that the only reason he became a School Board Trustee, is to line his pockets with taxpayer’s money. Tuesday, Trustee McDowell and long time crook Terrance Horton, stormed the Ed Center, trying to secure a contract for Horton and Horton’s Korean business connection.  Sources report, that in return for McDowell securing a school district contract for Terrance Horton, he would receive a 10% cut. Sources also report that McDowell was promised financial compensation for securing a deal for Carver Federal Bank to perform services for the school bond. Such deals are illegal.

Mount Vernon Exposed was informed that Trustee McDowell is receiving food stamps under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, (SNAP). It is likely that McDowell is also receiving government rent assistance. The McDowell family members are driving expensive Cadillac vehicles with out of state plates.  How is it possible that a Trustee on government assistance can afford theses vehicles? Something is wrong, and a federal investigation needs to be conducted to find out if the McDowells are defrauding the government.

The UBC tried to hijack the School Board, by backing Kevin Bunch in the past election. A Bunch win would have given Trustee Dorothea Miller the Board Presidency, and the United Black Clergy (UBC) control of the Board. Miller is tied to the hip of Omar McDowell, as well as The UBC. It would have been a disaster having this group in power. Crooked Ministers pulling the strings of a crooked board majority would be a repeat of 2002 when the then $100 million bond was stolen. With a majority, the district would have had no choice but to cave in to McDowell, and our bond money would once again become misappropriated.

McDowell is an embarrassment. He is the point man for crooked Ministers and crooked businessmen, and should resign. It is obvious that he does not have enough moral fiber to represent children, and hold the position as a School Board Trustee. The fact that he has other Trustees who are aligned with him, is shameful. Those Trustees should also resign. Our Children deserve better.

The board owes the residents of Mt Vernon an audit of past bonds. It was promised, but it has yet to be accomplished.

UNITED BLACK CLERGY GOES DOWN IN DEFEAT-VICTORY FOR MOUNT VERNON TAXPAYERS

BISHOP EDWARS ENGAGED IN ILLEGAL
CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES

The UBC Goes Down In Defeat

The United Black Clergy (UBC) received a crushing defeat in yesterday’s school board election. Their Candidate, Kevin Bunch was strongly rejected by Mount Vernon voters. Adriane Saunders, Rosemarie Jarosz, and Dr. Serigne Gningue won re-election, and will serve another 3-year term.

There were winners and losers in the school board race

Losers

Bishop Collie Edwars and The UBC 

These bands of corrupt Ministers were rejected by the voters of Mount Vernon, as well as by members of their congregation. They destroyed the school district from 1997-2013 and tried to make a come back, and once again steal bond money. UBC President, Bishop Collie Edwars is out of touch with the issues. He and The UBC need to stay out of our school system.

Dorothea Miller, Charmaine Feron, and Omar McDowell

This trio of board members hitched their wagon to Ministers who are hell bent on destroying the district. They should resign. If not, next year this time, voters of Mount Vernon desperate for a better Mount Vernon, will vote them out of office.

Delia Farquharson

Ms. Farquharson also hitched her wagon to Corrupt Ministers. Voters want churches out of politics, and Ms. Farquson can’t seem to get that message. Voters will send her a message loud and clear, and reject Delia Farquharson’s bid for a City Council seat next year.

Maureen Walker

The winds of politics in Mount Vernon have changed. Maureen Walker is constantly on the wrong side of the will of the people of this city. Banding together with The UBC to bring down a very successful school board was a big mistake.

Crooked Contactors

Omar McDowell pitched shady contractors for bond contracts. Their hopes for a financial windfall by raiding the bond were dashed.

Kevin Bunch

Kevin does not understand politics, and needs a history lesson. The bad board members are up for re-election next year.

Winners

The Citizens of Mount Vernon

Changing the power of the board while a $108 million is floating around, would have buried Mount Vernon. Students and taxpayers are big winners today.

The Mount Vernon School District

Once an embarrassment, Mount Vernon’s school district received a big victory yesterday. With a great Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Hamilton, and a competent honest board, our district has a great future.

Rosemarie Jarosz, and Dr. Serigne Gningue

Bishop Collie Edwars made it very clear that the UBC was targeting Jarosz and Gningue. The voters rewarded them while punishing UBC candidate Kevin Bunch.

The New Movement

There is a very small group of people who want Mount Vernon to succeed. They know how to win elections and will be a force to contend with.

Congrats to Mount Vernon.

FEDS PROBING UNITED BLACK CLERGY FOR MONEY LAUNDERING AND TAX CRIMES

UNITED BLACK CLERGY PRESIDENT BISHOP EDWARS
ENGAGED IN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES

Mount Vernon Exposed has received information from a credible source that the U.S. Justice Department has opened up an investigation in the spending of past school bond money, and the illegal activity of a few churches in Mount Vernon. Residents have flooded their office with complaints.

Past school board elections were stolen by church officials desperate to control contracts and jobs. Mount Vernon residents are concerned that election fraud will happen again this year. Thieves are lining themselves up to get their hands on the current bond, and will do anything to win this election.

Trustee Omar McDowell is already applying pressure to school officials and hoping to award contracts to shady characters. Mount Vernon taxpayers are terrified at the prospect that this $108 million bond will experience the same fate as past bonds. Most of the current board members have performed a great job revitalizing the school district, but are few are hell bent on hitching their wagon to crooked ministers who want to steal money.  In no other community are churches involved in the school district like what is going on in Mt Vernon. After devastating the school system from 1997-2013, these crooked Ministers are back to raid our bond money once again. Enough is enough.

It will be great to see a few past and current corrupt board members, along with their rogue Minister counterparts, being carted off to jail.

Stay tuned

UNITED BLACK CLERGY PRESIDENT ADMITS TO TARGETING SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS UP FOR RE-ELECTION

United Black Clergy Admits To Targeting Board Members

Mount Vernon Exposed caught up with United Black Clergy President Bishop Collie Edwars after he contacted Mount Vernon Exposed regarding a recent story. Mt Vernon Exposed reported that the Bishop offered support for Kevin Bunch, in exchange for the new board’s support for Bishop Edwars’ plan to establish a charter school. Friendship Worship Center is located on Lincoln, Avenue, on the north side of Mount Vernon.

UNITED BLACK CLERGY PRESIDENT
BISHOP COLLIE EDWARS

First, let me make this very clear, most of the over 400 churches in Mt Vernon have honorable Pastors, who do great work in our city. Only four churches have crossed the line into illegal actives. Those churches have hurt Mt Vernon’s School District, causing a generation of children to go uneducated.

 The conversation with the Bishop was extremely troubling to say the least.  It is very clear that Bishop Edwars is self-serving, tone deaf, and is not very educated when it comes to the issues affecting the citizens of Mount Vernon.  The Bishop constantly replies with false innuendo and bizarre statements, yet his group of four Ministers wants to take over our school district.

Bishop Edwars answered questions regarding his plans to establish a charter school in the City of Mount Vernon.  The Bishop stated that his application has been pushed back (denied) three times by the State, because the Mount Vernon City School District is on the “upswing”.  If the school district is on the upswing, as stated by Bishop Edwars, why is there a need to open up a charter school?  Historically speaking, Charter Schools were created because of failing school districts.  The purpose was to give parents an alternative to costly private school tuition. Additionally, if the school district is on an upswing, why is there a need to change one of the best boards we have had in the last 30 years.

Mount Vernon Exposed pointed out to Bishop Edwars, that if his plot goes through, and he gets his hand picked candidate elected, the Bishop could circumvent the New York State Board of Regents by having the school board vote to approve his charter school.  The Bishop disagreed, or was playing dumb that he didn’t know such power was vested in the school board.

The most outrageous revelation in the interview was Bishop Edwars admitted that the UBC is targeting Dr. Gningue and Ms. Jarosz, and is spearing their running mate.  This explains why the UBC’s handpicked moderators harshly treated this group at the debates. Nowhere in America does this happen. This type of behavior is the main reason our school system and city continually fails. Those debates were an embarrassment, and Ministers responsible for the debacle need to step down. People of God do not target people. Our elected officials deserve the decency of not being disrespected.

The churches always contend that the board favors north side schools, even though north side schools are full with south side students. His contention that no school on the south side has a k-8 program is not true.  Graham elementary school was the first school to have k-8 implemented. It is scary that Bishop Edwars did not know that Graham is located on the south side of Mt Vernon.

Mt Vernon’s Board should be applauded for cleaning up the mess these churches caused from 1997-2013. No other community has Pastors bullying their way into school systems. We need federal intervention. Most churches are good, but these rogue Pastors need to be stopped.

Join your fellow citizens who are fed up, and click on the IRS link below. Fill out and submit, IRS complaint form 13909. The more complaints, the faster the action.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf

Mt Vernon also urges the residents of Mt Vernon to contact the US Justice Department at (914) 993-1900. Lets demand that all past school bonds be investigated. We should not be spending a dime on the new bond while accused bond thieves are trying to wrestle control of the school board.  Enough is enough.

Clickhere to hear the entire conversation with Bishop Collie Edwars.   

UNITED BLACK CLERGY PRESIDENT BISHOP EDWARS WANTS CHARTER SCHOOL AS PAYBACK FOR SUPPORTING KEVIN BUNCH FOR SCHOOL BOARD

BISHOP EDWARS (center) INOLVED IN
ILLEGAL ELECTION ACTIVIITES IN VIOLATION
OF TAX EXEMPT STATUS

Mount Vernon Exposed has learned that this year’s school board election is about more than looting the district dry of the $108 Million school bond.  A clergy insider told Mount Vernon Exposed that if the United Black Clergy is able to pull of their sick plot of getting Kevin Bunch elected, the newly comprised school board will vote to approve another charter school.

The new charter school would be political payback to Bishop Edwars, President of the United Black Clergy and also doubles as the Pastor of Friendship Worship Center, which will also be the site of the new charter school.  Homeowners in the City of Mount Vernon can kiss the last several years of zero percent tax increases goodbye, if United Black Clergy candidate Kevin Bunch gets elected.   Where are the feds?

UBC CANDIDATE
KEVIN BUNCH

Bishop has been struggling for years with a next to zero congregation.  The jiving Bishop lost several tenants at his church that left because of the excessive, above market rental fees charged by the Bishop.  The Armani Charter School, which caused a firestorm in the community, was also a tenant of Bishop Edwars.  Bishop Edwars wants to keep the gravy train running.

New York State has already denied Bishop Edwars a charter school on several occasions. Mount Vernon taxpayers and students cannot afford to have valuable resources taken out of the already struggling school district to support the Bishop’s lavish lifestyle.  Where are the feds?

This year’s School Board debates have turned into an absolute joke. Ministers pick moderators who favor their candidates and are hostile to apposing candidates. The debates at Greater Centennial and The Dole Center were an embarrassment and a set up. Further debates should be boycotted, because The UBC does not know the meaning of fairness and will stop at nothing until they get their paws on the loot. 

Please use the below website to file complaints about illegal electioneering by churches.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf

Mount Vernon Exposed also urges the residents of Mount Vernon to contact the U.S. Justice Department at (914) 993-1900 to demand that all past school bonds be investigated.