MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL CHIEF JUDITH JOHNSON CAUGHT STEALING FROM TAXPAYERS; GIVES CRONY $60K NO SHOW JOB

CORRUPT SCHOOL CHIEF JUDITH JOHNSON

Already under fire for hiding failing test scores from board members and keeping board members in the dark about dangerous levels of asbestos in city schools, more explosive allegations are being made against Mount Vernon Interim School Superintendent Judith Johnson.

Johnson stands accused of electioneering and using the school district’s K-12 emergency response system to get the school budget passed by voters. Johnson even went far as using taxpayer funded school resources including but not limited to copiers, computers, and personnel during the last election to get the school budget passed. 

According to sources familiar with the probe, school board attorneys are investigating the matter to determine if criminal charges are warranted before the matter is referred to law enforcement authorities.

The scene of the crime was Mount Vernon High School, where Jason Pritchard, at the expense of Mount Vernon taxpayers, printed thousands of flyers and had them put into each and every child’s backpack in the entire Mount Vernon City School district.  

Johnson instilled fear and anxiety in parents by telling them that a “NO” vote would hurt the kids, however Judith Johnson did not tell parents that she awarded her crony, Pennington PTA Vanessa Ritter with a no show $60,000 per year job disguised under the bogus title of “Web Designer”. 

The flyers in question told voters to vote “YES” for the budget.  Johnson had former school board trustee Delia Farqharson record a message urging all to vote “YES” for the budget.  The recorded message was then illegally blasted using the K-12 emergency alert system.  The K-12 alert is used to call and notify parents in the event of school closings or other perilous events. 

Johnson’s highhanded behavior and blatant disregard for the law began long before her arrival in Mount Vernon.  According to a recent article in the Journal News this past weekend, three guidance counselors handpicked and hired by Johnson are now facing criminal charges for changing test scores on standardized tests.  As a result of this flim flam grade changing scandal, Johnson received several awards, including most improved school district.  Johnson was also named superintendent of the year.

School Board trustees who are elected at large by members of the public have had a very difficult time navigating the waters of the Johnson administration.  Johnson is deliberately withholding information, including asbestos reports and failing grades from board members.  To add insult to injury and to stall board members, Johnson requires that all board members seeking basic information must file a Freedom of Information request with the clerk of the board.   

Is Johnson fit to continue to serve as school superintendent?  Will criminal charges be brought against Johnson? Only time will tell.  Johnson has failed to realize that she works for and serves at the pleasure of the school board and the taxpayers and not vice versa. 

It is quite obvious that Johnson does not believe in transparency.  When it was made public that there are dangerous levels of asbestos still present in Cecil H. Parker Elementary School, Johnson deployed extra security guards and even called for a police presence to ensure that reporters from News 12 did not gain access to inside the school. 

Prior to the 9 A.M. press conference at Parker school, school board trustee Frances Wynn went to the school to ensure that security was in place to make sure the press did not gain access to the areas of the school identified in the report that contains mold and asbestos.

Wynn, who at the time of the press conference did not see the report, went on the defensive stating that “the Interim Superintendent hides nothing”.  When the News12 reporter asked Wynn about why the report wasn’t given to board members, Wynn could not answer and began to speak gibberish.  Wynn also admitted to the reporter that school board members should have been notified and received the asbestos report. 

“I am not employed by nor do I work in any capacity for the school board,” said Rivers. “The buck stops with Judith Johnson, she must come clean with taxpayers or resign. It is time to tighten up or ship out.  It is not my job to inform board members about asbestos when Johnson gets paid over $260K a year to do what I am doing for free.  Taxpayers can no longer afford Johnson’s arrogance and ignorance of the law.”  Rivers added.     

  Mount Vernon School Chief Judith Johnson Hides Asbestos Report From Taxpayers by Samuel L. Rivers

JUDGE ADAM SEIDEN ILLEGALLY APPOINTED TO BENCH; THOUSANDS OF CASES MAY BE VACATED

CORRUPT ASSOCIATE JUDGE ADAM SEIDEN

Mount Vernon Exposed would like to inform the public that an investigation is currently under way into the judicial appointment of Mount Vernon City Associate Adam Seiden.  Thousands of cases presided on by Seiden through the years may be vacated and adjudicated.

According to the Mount Vernon City Charter, the term for Associate Judge is two years. It is unclear and could not be determined under what law or authority did city officials use to appointment the disgraced Associate Judge .  Were city officials that negligent that they didn’t bother to read the charter or was the appointment of Judge Seiden part of a larger conspiracy to gentrify the City of Mount Vernon? 

Mayor Ernie Davis appointed Judge Seiden to the bench in 1995.  Many say that this appointment was political in nature and payback for services Seiden provided during his tenure as a Mount Vernon School Board Trustee.  We will explore the facts surrounding Seiden’s judicial appointment at a later time.  

The ethically challenged Seiden was caught on tape calling people living on the South of Mount Vernon “animals”.  Very soon these “animals” will have their sentences vacated and will hopefully get the chance to have a new case heard before a Judge legally authorized to hear the case.

It is unclear why City officials chose to ignore the City Charter, which clearly would take precedence over any State law as the local city law is more restrictive than the State law. 

Community activist Samuel L. Rivers has asked the City of Mount Vernon Corporation Counsel for an opinion.  “City officials must adhere and follow the charter.  Judge Seiden must be immediately removed from the bench or documentation must be provided to the public of a referendum passed by voters authorizing the increase of the Associate Judge term from 2 years to 6 years”, said Rivers.  

Mayor Ernest Davis just recently appointed Seiden to another term in office that began on January 1, 2013 and runs untilDecember 31, 2018.

  MOUNT VERNON Associate City Judge Appointment ILLEGALY APPOINTED TO BENCH

  JUDGE ADAM SEIDEN ILLEGALLY APPOINTED TO SERVE by Samuel L. Rivers

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CORRUPT JUDGE ADAM SEIDEN'S WIFE LEAVES HIM FOR ANOTHER WOMAN; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND ABUSE ALLEGED CAUSE OF SPLIT

CORRUPT MT VERNON JUDGE ADAM SEIDEN

Mount Vernon Exposed has recently learned that Corrupt Mount Vernon City Court Judge Adam Seiden’s Wife Patricia Patterson has allegedly left him for another woman due to verbal and physical abuse amongst other things.  

Sources close to Seiden told Mount Vernon Exposed that Seiden used to physically assault his wife and use to repeatedly call her a “Bitch” in public and at events where his judicial colleagues were in attendance.  It is clear that Judge Seiden does not respect woman and should seek professional help for his problems.



According to records obtained by Mount Vernon Exposed Judge Seiden’s wife moved out of the house they owned together at 4 Cold Spring Court, in Mount Kisco, due to his excessive violent tirades. Seiden put the house up for sale in May 2011 for $1,199,000 and also for rent at $5,800 per month. Seiden ended up renting out his spacious home for $5,550.  It is alleged that Seiden brought 4,000 sq ft home with "dirty money" he stole and ripped of from his clients.  Judge Seiden was also to real estate professionals as a "loan shark".

Mount Vernon Exposed also obtained pictures of Judge Seiden’s house.  No expense or detailed was spared in this home.  One can imagine that Seiden is living like Scarface and thinks, “ The world is his”.

Over the next few months, Mount Vernon Exposed will thoroughly dig through the life of Judge Adam Seiden.  You will learn about Judge Seiden’s criminal behavior, his alleged solicitation of prostitutes, his violence towards woman, past clients he ripped off, tax evasion, extortion, bribery, theft of services, voter fraud, mortgage fraud, and case fixing.

Adam, as his peers affectionately call him, began his life of crime when he was elected to the school board.  In 1995, Mayor Ernie Davis appointed him to the bench.  Mayor Davis has appointed Seiden time and time again even though Adam called Mayor Davis’ supporters “animals and low life scum bags”.

Judge Adam Seiden must come clean to the residents of Mount Vernon.  He has already made it clear

“Judge Adam Seiden is the most corrupt Judge in the 9th judicial district,” says Samuel Rivers, publisher of Mount Vernon Exposed.   There is no place in the judicial system for a criminal such as Seiden”, Rivers added.

 PLEASE SEE PICTURES OF JUDGE ADAM SEIDEN'S HOME

SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE LEN SARVER SEEKS TO ENRICH "BUDDIES" WITH $700 PER DAY CONTRACT

CORRUPT SCHOOL TRUSTEE LEN SARVER

Mount Vernon Exposed has just learned about more corruption involving Mount Vernon School Chief Judith Johnson and her minion, Mount Vernon School Board Trustee Len Sarver. 

Johnson with the assistance of Sarver has craftily found a way to sneak an Architectural firm on the agenda that does business and is affiliated with Sarver.  It is unclear if there is or has ever been any financial arrangement between the architectural firm of Fuller Angelo and Trustee Sarver and school chief Judith Johnson. 

Board members including Trustee Elias Gootzeit, have questioned the need to have an architectural firm that’s costs taxpayers $700 per day.  On top of that, they are being hired to oversee asbestos removal, not a service offered to the general public on their website fullerdangelo.com  Every time this matter comes up for discussion during a board meeting, Trustee Sarver, despite a conflict of interest, always seems to go the extra mile to steer his “buddies” millions of dollars of contracts on the backs of cash strapped taxpayers.

Just recently, Trustee Gootzeit recommended that the school district solicit bids or an RFP for architectural services because Mount Vernon taxpayers can no longer afford the current quid pro quo blanket arrangement currently in place with Fuller D’Angelo.  Trustee Gootzeit was met with fierce opposition from Trustee Sarver.  Sources told Mount Vernon Exposed that Sarver went into a hell bent rage and therefore RFP proposal was killed and Sarver’s “buddies” continued to be the recipient of an open-ended contract with no oversight from board members.  Why does Len Sarver continue to meddle in the buildings and grounds business of the school board when he is no longer the chairman of the building and grounds committee? 

During one board meeting, Mount Vernon Exposed witnessed first hand Sarver’s psychotic behavior.  Sarver disrespected fellow board member Adrienne Saunders who currently chairs the building and grounds committee.  Saunders, who is African American, was at the receiving end of Sarver’s tirade in which he lashed out at her in public saying, “What do you know about buildings”?  Sarver assumed that because Saunders was a woman and also possibly because she was a black woman, that Saunders knew nothing about buildings and grounds and that he would use this as a basis to get his old job back so he continue riding the money train. 

Once again Sarver is wrong.  In addition to being a Licensed Real Estate Broker, Saunders is a successful real estate investor, so it would hard to believe that one would become successful in real estate without a clear understanding of buildings and grounds.  Sarver’s true colors were revealed that evening.  He is a racist and he has no respect for woman, especially woman of color.   

Board members have long questioned the motives and integrity of Len Sarver.  Many wonder when did Trustee Sarver begin to “Break Bad”.   Sarver, who ran on a ticket vowing to reform the school district, has done nothing but try to reform his bank account courtesy of Mount Vernon taxpayers.  Sarver is all alone on the school board as the other 8 members are all in agreement that Trustee Len Sarver and Super indent Judith Johnson must immediately resign if there is any chance to save the schools and repair the tarnished image that has been a black cloud over the Mount Vernon community for the past two decades.

Just last month when a tab up for vote regarding Fuller D’Angelo, Trustee Sarver recused him from the vote without a thorough explanation, just stating that he is “friends” with one of the principles.  Just what does that mean Mr. Sarver?  Are you receiving kickbacks in exchange for pushing through contracts?  Did Fuller D’Angelo steer work to your electrical business?  These questions are more need to be answered.  Mr. Sarver and Judith Johnson must be held accountable for their actions and they must never forget that they work for the taxpayer and not vice versa.

If Federal investigators did a forensic audit of the Mount Vernon School district, not only will they find Sarver’s and Johnson’s hand in the cookie jar, they will discover the ancestors that came before Sarver and Johnson who taught them the tricks of the trade and how to pacify the people while they robbed the city blind.  They will also discover dozens of people with no show jobs living in Florida, Georgia, and various other states that have been on the school district payroll for over 20 years.   Just ten years ago, the school budget was $101 million dollars today the budget of over $200 million dollars.  Where did all the money go?  It certainly wasn't inflation that drove up the school budget.  

If one was to check the School District website you will notice the absence of the school budget.  Timothy Costello, who is alleged to have looted the school district of tens of millions of dollars during his tenure as Budget Administrator for the Mount Vernon City School District, prepares the budget that is voted yearly by Mount Vernon residents.   Costello is still employed as the Budget Administrator.  What is Mr. Costello hiding?  What is his role in the “great heist”? These questions and more will be answer in the next issue.  To be continued………

  

CORRUPT SCHOOL CHIEF JUDITH JOHNSON AND SCHOOL BOARD VICE PRESIDENT LEN SARVER HIDE FAILING TEST SCORES FROM PUBLIC

CORRUPT MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL CHIEF JUDITH JOHNSON

CORRUPT SCHOOL BOARD VICE PRESIDENT LEN SARVER

When the school board selected Judith Johnson as the superintendent of Mount Schools, it is obvious that Judith's background was not fully vetted.  Sources have told Mount Vernon Exposed that during Johnson's interview, she was a slick talking jive turkey and easily pulled the wool over the eyes of board members.

Judith’s background is full of scandal and deception.  For starters Judith Johnson is corrupt as the day is long.   In Peekskill Judith was accused of destroying the schools and being in cohorts with Peekskill Democrats and the black clergy to destroy Peekskill schools.

Judith high tax policies can still be felt to this day and the effects can still be seen throughout the City of Peekskill with the record number of foreclosures and abandoned houses.  Sources have said that Johnson increased the Peekskill school district payroll by over 400% by filling positions with members connected to Peekskill Democrats and black clergy.  Property taxes also increased a whopping 120% during Johnson's tenure.

Johnson has brought her high taxing, nepotism, and cronyism mentality to the City of Mount Vernon schools where she is serving in her second year as Superintendent.

Already raking in over $250K a year of taxpayer funds, more than the Vice President of the United States of America, Judith recently came under fire for taking an additional $10K or $833.00 per month car allowance stipend which is the highest in the region, yet Mount Vernon publics are the worst by far in the region.

The previous superintendent had a car issued and paid for by by the district.  The 2010 fully loaded Dodge Charger is still registered to the City of Mount Vernon school district and is just sitting collecting dust in the garage at Grimes Elementary School.

When Johnson took office, she didn't waste any time trying to make deals with the powers that be in Mount Vernon.   She has aligned herself with political figureheads and black clergy who once were in control of the schools.  School district business is supposed to be non-political and non-partisan.

All of this corruption was made possible with the cooperation of Lenny Sarver, Vice President of the school board.  Sarver would allow the fraud waste and abuse to continue use as long as Judith Johnson and former Superintendent Sawyer continued to funnel millions of dollars worth of construction contractors to vendors of his choosing.

Johnson also brought her magic to the City of Mount Vernon that she used in Peekskill.  Johnson is so talented that she could make failing test scores disappear and become resurrected as passing scores.  Peekskill schools were cited by NYS and the reports are attached for all to see.

Johnson is continuing this same scandalous and nefarious behavior in Mount Vernon that was standard operating procedure in Peekskill.  According to sources, School Board Trustee Brenda Crump who has long been an advocate for Mount Vernon children inquired about Mount Vernon test scores since the summertime and did not receive any forthcoming information from the Johnson administration.

School board Vice President Len Sarver was fully aware of Johnson's actions and aware that board members wanted answers but instead of protecting taxpayers and looking over the students he was entrusted by voters to look after, Sarver chose to turn a blind eye to the corruption because the powers that be were lining his greasy pockets with lucrative construction contracts.

According to sources, Trustee Crump then began her own investigation and called the state and found out that the test scores were delivered to Judith Johnson back in August.  So why is Johnson hiding the test scores?  What is she hiding? Why hasn’t these test scores been made public?

Will Johnson come clean and resign or will she be led away in handcuffs? Only time will tell.

TO BE CONTINUED....

  Mount Vernon School Chief Judith Johnson is a Crook