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Preet Bharara – Your Table in Rye Awaits

In case you’re just getting back from vacation, yesterday the New York Times unwrapped a 3 month long investigation with a lengthy front page article into Governor Cuomo’s apparent farce of a state anti-corruption commission – The Moreland Commission, by name. It’s a bombshell but in journalism practice it’s just a likely overture to the main feature to come – charges by the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara across the New York political and patronage spectrum netting up dozens of low and high powered operators statewide.

One of Mr. Bharara’s likely prime targets is political fixer Larry “The Brain” Schwartz. In Rye, boy do we know Larry. In his old job Mr. Schwartz extinguished political fires for his prior boss, Westchester County Executive Andy “My-Chauffer-is-Waiting” Spano. Rye’s Hen Island was one of those fires and multiple Westchester County Department of Health officials who shared truths about the conditions here are now – retired or working elsewhere. In order to assist Mr. Bharara in his important work, we Rye Good Government Reformers have issued an invitation to him to join us for lunch in Rye.

We’d like to tell Mr. Bharara about this and about Mr. Schwartz’s working relationship concerning Hen Island with Kevin Plunkett, formerly Rye’s own Corporation Counsel and currently Deputy County Executive to Gubernatorial Candidate Rob Astorino. Mr. Plunkett also happens to be the brother of William Plunkett, prior Governor George Pataki’s former law partner. Kevin Plunkett was brought into Rye by former Mayor Steve Otis – who has now become a Democratic NYS assemblyman. Rye’s largest financial fraud in its over 300 year history secretly began under their joint municipal oversight and the matter is currently working its way through the county courts.

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While we wait for a mutually convenient lunch date to open up, the U.S. Attorney might view the first minute of this Hen Island documentary linked below. The careers of almost every public employee pictured on this July 17th 2007 inspection soon changed. The backroom powers of Mr. Schwartz and his GOP counterpart Mr. Plunkett are not to be dismissed lightly.

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