MOUNT VERNON CITY COUNCILWOMAN LISA COPELAND SAYS SHE HAS UNDUE INFLUENCE IN NY AG'S OFFICE; CAN GET ANYONE ARRESTED AND LOCKED UP

CORRUPT CITY COUNCILWOMAN LISA COPELAND

Embattled Mount Vernon City Councilwoman Lisa Copeland is at again.  Sources have told Mount Vernon Exposed that Copeland is off her medication for bi-polar disorder.  Her recent tirades in public, especially at City Council meetings have people questioning her mental fitness to carry out her duties as an official City Councilwoman.

Just last Wednesday at a City Council meeting on the record Copeland went berserk after a community activist questioned Lisa Copeland about why she hasn’t filed Campaign Financial Disclosure Reports since 2013.  Copeland was also asked about trying to get her friend, Donna Jackson, who currently works as the Executive Assistant to Superintendent of Schools Ken Hamilton, a job working with the City Council and an immediate $35K raise.

Copeland was also warned that she will be ousted next election over these scandals and she fired back by stating ”No one can stop me from being re-elected, this is my city”.  This is not the first reckless stating coming from Copeland.  Copeland recently told her fellow Councilmembers that she has undue influence in Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his office and can get anyone locked up or investigated.  Copeland even said that if it wasn’t for her, Schneiderman wouldn’t even have been elected. 

Copeland also said on the record, that she has a meeting tomorrow morning to me with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to discuss getting two of her political rivals arrested and investigated and immediately after that, she has an appointment with the New York State Board of Elections. 

Copeland escaped federal prosecution after she intentionally shredded documents from the City Clerk’s office when the Feds were investigating former Mayor Ernie Davis.  Copeland purposely destroyed documents pertinent to the investigation, including, but not limited to, Financial Disclosure Forms. 

To Be Continued…….

MAYOR THOMAS SAYS "FUCK THE JUDGE" AND WILLFULLY VIOLATES COURT ORDER

CORRUPT MAYOR RICHARD THOMAS, CORRUPT DEPUTY POLICE JOSEPH SPIEZIO, AND CORRUPT CHIEF OF STAFF SHAWYN PATERSON HOWARD

Mayor Thomas and Corporation Counsel Lawrence Pocari have violated a court order issued by New York State Supreme Court Justice Susan Cacace.  Last month, Cacace ruled that the City of Mount Vernon violated her court order when they put locks on O.K. Freddy after she ordered them removed. 

 

Mayor Thomas has since gone berserk and has been going from one extreme to the other.  Yesterday morning Mayor Thomas, Corporation Counsel and his Chief of Staff/Planning Commissioner Shawyn Patterson-Howard held a meeting to discuss how to close down O.K. Freddy’s Meat Market again.  Shawyn Patterson Howard led the meeting.

 

According to a source that was present during the meeting, Mayor Thomas was cussing like a sailor and repeatedly said “FUCK THE JUDGE, I RUN MOUNT VERNON”.   The source said Mayor Thomas was adamant about closing down the businesses. 

 

Corporation Counsel Lawrence Pocari was so bold that he put his evil plan into writing.  Pocari sent out emails to City of Mount Vernon employees stating that if they did not write violations they would be written up for “Neglect of Duty”.

 

Mayor Thomas has shown complete disregard for the judicial system and apparently unfazed that he can be held in contempt of court for willfully violating a court order.

 

         

Judge Cacace ordered all parties to appear in her courtroom tomorrow morning at 11:30 A.M.  Mount Vernon Exposed will continue to follow this developing story. 

REV. W. FRANKLYN RICHARDSON AND UNITED BLACK CLERGY RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHS OF BLACK MEN IN MOUNT VERNON

Mount Vernon’s Ineffective Clergy

REV. EDWARD MULRAINE

While violence claims the lives of citizens in Mount Vernon, our religious leaders remain silent. The same leaders, who loudly preach politics from the pulpit and suck the life out our school district, stay silent while our citizens die.

Last month, the local clergy pushed Kevin Bunch for school board trustee. The United Black Clergy (UBC) members took time out of their sermons to illegally electioneer from the pulpit. Grace Baptist crony, Henry May, peddled Bunch literature in front of polling locations.

Killings and gun violence are never on Sunday morning programs. Many believe the black churches in Mount Vernon created the violence we are experiencing by robbing the school district blind, and producing a generation of uneducated former students.

PASTOR
W.FRANKLYN RICHARDSON

As bullets fly and the people die, the Clergy remains silent to the tragedies that plague Mount Vernon. They never offer the option of opening their churches to get kids off the street. Macedonia Pastor Darren Morton spent many Sundays electioneering from the pulpit endorsing Kevin Bunch for School Board Trustee. However, Morton is partly responsible for our youth walking the streets with no activities. Morton, who is a failed Recreation Commissioner, should not be employed by the City of Mount Vernon. The lack of recreation in Mount Vernon plagues our city.

Although the Clergy is silent to tragedies, they are vocal when it comes to city and school elections. They are also vocal as to who gets to spend bond money.

While people die, the Clergy are focused on electing Reverend Edward Mulraine for the State Senate seat, vacated by Ruth Hassell Thompson. Sources say, Reverend Mulraine of Unity Baptist Church in Mount Vernon repeatedly cheated on his wife and fathered a child with a parishioner. His wife left him. While our youth’s blood spills in the street, our Clergy supports Mulraine. Bunch and Mulraine are on the Sunday morning programs, not the victims of violence, who lay in morgues with gunshot wounds. Mulraine is the protégé of Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson and Grace Baptist Church.

While we bury our citizens, Rev. Richardson of Grace Baptist Church, invited Rev. Al Sharpton, (last Sunday), to speak at Unity Baptist Church. The prior day’s shooting death and stabbing were not on the agenda, but Mulraine for State Senate was. Does Sharpton know of Mulraine’s past, or did the UBC fail to mention it?

Our Clergy in Mount Vernon is a disgrace. The UBC is active in everything but saving our community. Their School District meddling may be the reason Mount Vernon is erupting in violence. They are not interested in helping to stop murders they may have caused.

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.