This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 10, 2025) — After two grueling months of persistence, I finally received 1,621 pages of emails to or from Stanley Bernstein to New Rochelle officials, spanning 2020 to 2025, in response to my
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 8, 2025) — Have successfully orchestrated a March 2024 coup to replace a professional, ethical City Manager (Kathleen Gill) with a spineless, unethical sock-puppet (Wil Melendez), Mayor Yadira Ramos and her cronies have looked for
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 6, 2025) — My how time flies. It has now been two years since Loli and I moved to Ireland. We left New York out of JFK on the evening of July 3, 2025 and arrived at Dublin Airport on July 4, 2025. We brought with us six
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 6, 2025) — Four candidates in the May 20, 2025, New Rochelle Board of Education election ran active campaigns, raising and spending thousands of dollars to secure voter support, while a fifth candidate, Myriam Decime, did not run an active campaign and reported no financial activity. Elana
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 29, 2025) — I spent a fair amount of time this week reporting out straight news stories for Talk of the Sound as opposed to analysis and opinion for Words in Edgewise. I reported exclusively on an ICE Raid at Heritage Homes in New Rochelle where agents took
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 22, 2025) — It is now 39 months since I began reporting on corruption at New Rochelle City Hall. My sense is the DA investigation phase (mostly based on my reporting) is coming to close and we are fast approaching the charging and prosecution phase. To put this
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 15, 2025) — Typically, I would mix in some personal material with the news but I will skip my being up at Croke Park to see Leinster Rugby Win the URC Championship last night. The latest is that while subpoenas have been quietly dropping over the past few
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 15, 2025) — As the criminal investigation by the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office has moved into the subpoena phase (really meaning that targets of the investigation are now on notice) I figure I may as well drop records that are relevant but not been given their
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 15, 2025) — As the criminal investigation by the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office has moved into the subpoena phase (really meaning that targets of the investigation are now on notice) I figure I may as well drop records that are relevant but not been given their
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 15, 2025) — It has been more than 14 months since I first expressed my outrage with the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office (and Mimi Rocah, in particular) over the failure to prosecute Noam Bramson in 2022 for illegally attempting to fire Kathleen Gill and get himself
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 15, 2025) — This is an email I sent to members of the New Rochelle City Council moments ago. Dear City Council and Staff, Some of you have received subpoenas from a Westchester County Grand Jury as part of an ongoing investigation into corruption at City Hall. This
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 11, 2025) — As we approach the end of the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office investigation into corruption in New Rochelle City Hall, Sustainable Westchester, and points beyond, I wanted to revisit an email exchange I had with one of the targets of the criminal investigation, Stanley
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 8, 2025) — WOW! This has been a busy week, and the New Rochelle Council Meeting on Tuesday is a chock-a-block with more busy-ness. I broke the news that NRPD Commissioner Robert Gazzola was leaving at the end of the month, that the New York State DEC was
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 7, 2025) — Here is a good example of the nature of the corrupt, illegal stonewalling of my FOIL requests. In this case, my investigating over $1,000,000 in no-bid contracts handed out by
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (June 6, 2025) — The City of New Rochelle recently announced it awarded $1.12 million to eight businesses through its Retail Tenant Improvement Fund, what the city describes as a “key component” of the Vanguard New Rochelle Downtown Retail Strategy launched in October 2024 to revitalize the
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 2, 2025) — Two weeks ago I reported on a mysterious “larger project” planned for Quaker Ridge Road in New Rochelle, as revealed in responses to bidder questions for RFP #5790, a concrete pavement rehabilitation project between Van Meter Fens and Weaver Street. Now we have an answer.
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 2, 2025) — A recent announcement by the Trump Administration has igniting a heated debate over local policies and federal authority over immigration law. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has accused Westchester County (and multiple areas across upstate New York) of violating federal immigration law by
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 2, 2025) — Six months ago, on December 2, 2024, I received a cease-and-desist letter from Lalit K. Loomba and Andrew C. Quinn of The Quinn Law Firm, representing New Rochelle Corporation Counsel Dawn Warren and Development Commissioner Adam Salgado. The letter demanded I retract reporting published on
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 1, 2025) — I’m pressing forward with my lawsuit against attorney Lalit K. Loomba and The Quinn Law Firm for copyright infringement. The U.S. Southern District of New York assigned a docket number, and my complaint is now uploaded to ECF. By next week, I’ll
DUBLIN, IRELAND (May 29, 2025) — I’ve been covering New Rochelle for years, and the May 13 City Council meeting on regulating massage establishments was a masterclass in incompetence. The council tackled a serious issue—curbing illicit massage parlors tied to prostitution and human trafficking—but Mayor Yadira Ramos’ inability