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.
It has
been 14 years since Mount Vernon voters passed the ill fated $100 million bond.
The 2002 bond was looted, and Longfellow Middle School and Grimes Elementary
School were poorly constructed, and are now falling apart.
Prior to
1997, the Italian Community Association (ICA) had a strangle hold on the school
board. Rev. Franklyn Richardson, of Grace Baptist church and a few other
Ministers, who called themselves CEEPA, received a higher calling to rescue Mount
Vernon from these bad Italians. CEEPA claimed black kids were being treated
unfairly. The higher calling must not have been from God, because CEEPA
destroyed Mt Vernon’s educational system. Under church control, Mt Vernon’s
School District imploded, and more children went to jail than to college.
In 2002,
Mount Vernon’s voters approved a $100 million bond. CEEPA’s board members
eliminated oversite of the bond by terminating the buildings and grounds
department, and money went missing.
The
construction of Longfellow Middle School and Grimes Elementary School were
performed with substandard materials, and left unfinished. Twelve years after
their completion, these schools are a mess, and huge sums of money are needed
to make necessary repairs.
Last November,
Mount Vernon Exposed warned the citizens of Mount Vernon about voting for the proposed
$108 million bond. The majority of the current board members have done a
fantastic job, but bad people will never stay away while $108 million is
floating around Mount Vernon.
POVERTY PIMP REV. W. FRANKLYN RICHARDSON
Sources
say that Rev Richardson and the United Black Clergy (UBC) have quietly
positioned themselves to once again destroy the district. A relatively unknown
person by the name of Kevin Bunch, decided to run for School Board Trustee in
the upcoming May, 17th election. This appears to be a very innocent
and noble decision by Mr. Bunch, until you peel back the top layer and unveil the
sick truth. Kevin Bunch is being pushed to run by the UBC (formally known as
CEEPA}
Sources
say that UBC members calculate that a Bunch victory would tip the power of the
board. This will allow them to control $108 million, which is slated to improve
the school district. Sources close to the UBC have informed Mount Vernon Exposed,
that they are targeting Trustee Dr. Serigne Gningue to be replaced by Bunch.
SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE KEVIN BUNCH
Comptroller
Maureen Walker has turned her back on the citizens of Mount Vernon. She has
been on the wrong side of the people of Mount Vernon the past few years. Walker
has punished seniors, as well as struggling homeowners, by foreclosing on our
most vurnalable citizens. Sources say Walker has made herself rich by wheeling
and dealing properties she forecloses on, and sells them to friends for pennies
on the dollar. Her resent action on the sale of the Mount Vernon Music School
is shameful. Maureen Walker has single handedly destroyed Mount Vernon property
values. Walker is also supporting the UBC and Bunch.
The Mount
Vernon school system has made tremendous strides the past few years. Gone are
the thuggish, uneducated board members, who were tied to thieves. Superintendent,
Dr. Kenneth Hamilton and most of the current board members have been game
changers for the district. Taxes have remained within the tax cap, the state
has rewarded homeowners with refunds, and children are being educated. If left
alone, the district’s future is bright.
Mount Vernon Exposed warned you
about greed, and about passing a $108 million bond in Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon Exposed
believes that if a full investigation of past bonds were performed, some of the
clergy meddling in this election would be behind bars. Mount Vernon Exposed
wants the UBC to stay out of the school district. If they are truly interested
in helping children, they need to open their churches in the evenings to help keep
children off the street.
The
School Board voted in several safeguards to assure that this bond would be used
appropriately. However, they did not take into account the sick disease called Mount
Vernon corruption.
It is no
secret that The Feds are looking into corruption in Mt Vernon. The biggest
catch they can make, is investigating the thievery perpetrated on the children
of Mount Vernon. It is time people go to jail for their crimes.
EMBATTLED MAYOR ELECT RICHARD THOMAS AND LUCCHESE AFFILIATED TOP ADVISOR JOSEPH SPIEZIO
Mount Vernon Mayor Elect
Richard Thomas announced his advisory council to the pubic yesterday. What was missing
from Thomas' advisory council was his promise of real community connection.
Where are the community leaders? Where are the people that have been out front
in support of Thomas’s campaign from the beginning? Mayor Thomas has gone
astray and alienated the core group of supporters that put him in office.
As we say in Mount Vernon, the
streets are talking and the streets are saying that Thomas has turned his back
on his main supporters that gave him the credibility to galvanize the support
of the masses of Mt. Vernon.
Are we to believe that the
list of advisors presented by Mayor-elect Richard Thomas actually knows how to
advise Thomas on the day-to-day operations in Mount Vernon?
Are we the people of Mt.
Vernon to be bamboozled by titles and corporate positions and no real history
in our community?
Mayor Elect Richard Thomas
has assembled a transition team headed by an individual that has ties to former
New York State Majority Leader Dean Skelos.United States Attorney Preet Baharara has indicted Skelos and his son.
Mayor Elect Richard Thomas
has named Arthur "Jerry" Kremer who heads a company called Empire
Government Strategies.Kremer's company
is tied to Senator Skelos' indictment.
The
arrest on federal corruption charges of Long Islander Dean Skelos, majority
leader of the New York State Senate, and his resignation from that post last week,
casts a spotlight on a major law firm.
Ruskin
Moscou Faltischek is a mover-and-shaker of governments on Long Island and one
of its partners is an East Ender in charge of lobbying activities for the firm.
The
Times article said “the criminal complaint in the case — which cataloged a
series of accusations centered on the senator’s efforts to use his official
position to extort money for his son — did not reflect well on the firm.” The
Times noted that the federal charge alleged, “At the senator’s request, the law
firm ‘steered title insurance work’ to his son, Adam B. Skelos, ‘including at
least one real estate transaction’ for over $32.6 million.”
Mr.
Skelos was presented on the law firm’s website in the context of his official
position — “Senator Dean G. Skelos, Of Counsel,” was its heading. Although now
mired in legal problems involving alleged corruption, one passage speaks, with
an irony that’s almost funny, about Senator Skelos “building upon his record of
combating fraud and abuse in government.”
According
to the federal charge, the senator began working at the firm in 1994, he has
been paid more than $2.6 million, despite the fact that it appears, based on
evidence gathered during the investigation, that Mr. Skelos “did not perform
any actual legal work” for the firm.
An
unusual aspect of the firm is what it calls its “government relations arm,
Empire Government Strategies.” This is headed by Arthur “Jerry” Kremer of
Bridgehampton.
ARTHUR "JERRY" KREMER
CORRUPT NYS SENATOR DEAN SKELOS (CURRENTLY INDICTED BY FEDS ON CORRUPTION CHARGES)
In a
section on the law firm’s website devoted to Mr. Kremer, under his photo is a
quote: “Law and politics have always been closely aligned. Many of my clients
turn to me for legal counsel, but also for my insights into the political
arena, which is a constantly changing landscape.” He is described as a partner
in the law firm.
Mr.
Kremer is a Democrat and for 23 years was a member of the New York State
Assembly. As a lobbyist, he’s been active in Suffolk County representing, among
other clients, the tobacco industry and seeking to block measures advanced by
the Suffolk Legislature to restrict smoking.
Although
a highly active lobbyist, for 20 years he has regularly appeared as a political
and government analyst on Cablevision’s News12.
Newsday,
in an investigative article by reporter Mark Harrington in 2013, detailed how
the “influential law firm and its government relations arm have a history of
close ties to the Long Island Power Authority and stand to gain billions if new
LIPA contracts come their clients’ way in coming weeks and months.”
It noted
that the Uniondale-based firm “long has represented Caithness of New York City
through its government relations arm” and “helped the energy company through
lobbying and consulting work to secure a $1.49 billion LIPA contract for a new
power plant.” Caithness is now pushing to add a second gas-fired power plant to
the one it built in Yaphank.
The law
firm through its “Empire Government Strategies,” the Newsday piece continued, “Also
has represented PSEG of New Jersey since at least last year. PSEG is slated to
see a $200 million-plus expansion of its $3.8 billion contract with LIPA if the
State Legislature OKs Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to give PSEG near
total control of the LIPA grid in January,”
Preet
Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York,
which includes Long Island, has been doing a extraordinary job exposing how New
York State government functions (or dysfunctions). His charges against Mr.
Skelos of Rockville Centre follow the indictment in February, also on
corruption charges, of the top Democrat in the State Legislature, Sheldon
Silver of Manhattan, the Assembly speaker, also forced to resign his leadership
post. Earlier, Mr. Bharara brought a series of successful prosecutions against
other state officials.
Thomas’s connection with
alleged Lucchese crime family associate Joseph Spiezio has run all of Thomas’s
credible support away and running for the hills. The exposure of the Spiezio Thomas
connection has forced Thomas to downplay the leadership role of his lead advisor.
Make no mistake about it, Spiezio is still running things and he still is making
Thomas’ decisions.
What we are witnessing are
acts of desperation by an administration that has spiraled out of control
before the administration has even taken office.
We must continue to hold
elected officials accountable and not tolerate shenanigans from any elected
official, even if he has a smile and a collage degree!!
A City Hall insider has informed Mount Vernon Exposed that
Edward Stevenson Muhammad, Chief of the Mount Vernon Fire Department and Water
Commissioner Anthony Bove will be using their
taxpayer funded, city issued vehicles to shuttle voters to and from the poles
tomorrow during the Democratic Primary.
Stevenson is sour that the rank and file firefighters
endorsed Richard Thomas for Mayor.Stevenson led a group of thuggish and violent Ernie Davis supporters to
Councilman and Mayoral candidate Richard Thomas' press conference held at
Station 1, also known as the fire department headquarters.The rowdy group was also led by Cathlin
Gleason, 2nd Vice Chairwoman of the Mount Vernon Democratic City Committee.
CATHLIN GLEASON
It has become quite obvious that Mayor Ernie Davis' campaign
is on life support and as such, has resorted to desperate measures to try to
win the election.Voters must reject the
thuggery that is being displayed on a daily basis from the Davis Camp.
The thuggish behavior was caught on tape by News 12 camera
for the world to see.
