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NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 19, 2022) -- I am now publishing here all the raw transcripts from the New Rochelle Board of Ethics investigation based on my ethics complaint. The newsletter is being sent first to paid subscribers at 2:00 pm on Friday August 19. This newsletter will be
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NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 19, 2022) -- No one did more to damage the perception of Noam Bramson before the ethics board than Steven Leventhal, Bramson’s attorney. The Mayor complained repeatedly that his deposition by the ethics board on April 4 was adversarial. If it was, it was so
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August 18, 2022
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August 17, 2022
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NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 16, 2022) -- On April 8, 2022, Council member Albert Tarantino testified in the Noam Bramson ethics investigation. Tarantino laid out his theory of the case on the Mayor’s response to the appointment of Kathleen Gill as Deputy City Manager. Unlike Hyden, he did so
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NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 16, 2022) -- On April 8, 2022, Council member Ivar Hyden testified in the Noam Bramson ethics investigation. When asked about the Mayor raising the idea that the next City Manager should come from the non-profit sector, he took it as a jumping-off point to unburden
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NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 15, 2022) -- The New Rochelle Board of Ethics spent a little time on the Mayor’s sudden interest in the composition of the Downtown Business Improvement Board after I published an article about a lunch meeting, what some at City Hall took to calling “Plan
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August 12, 2022
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NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 12, 2022) -- The New Rochelle Board of Ethics divided their line of questioning into my third allegation into two parts: Who is Alisa Kesten? Did the Mayor discuss with Council members adding non-profit experience to the job qualifications for City Manager? The simple answers are
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August 11, 2022
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August 10, 2022