Recommended Reading, January 12, 2025

The New Rochelle Thimblerig — Part XXIII

DUBLIN, IRELAND (January 12, 2025) — My reporting over the course of 2024 was focused on public sector corruption in Westchester County, which includes the transfer of large sums of taxpayer money to questionable entities, primarily for the purpose of events and workforce development. I did not set out looking into

The New Rochelle Thimblerig — Part XXII

DUBLIN, IRELAND (January 10, 2025) — I need to publish the material that follows because it is the best way I can make the various investigators see another manifestation of the corruption in New Rochelle City Hall — Dawn Warren interfering in my lawful access to public records. I do not recommend

The New Rochelle Thimblerig — Part XXI

DUBLIN, IRELAND (January 9, 2025) — As reported in the previous installment of this series, all the Kingdom Community Consultants (“KCC”) with the New Rochelle Corporation for Local Development (“CLD”) are invalid, illegal and were routinely violated by both KCC and the CLD. The contracts should never have been allowed, and

The New Rochelle Thimblerig — Part XX

DUBLIN, IRELAND (January 7, 2025) — There are plenty of ways to consider the contracts between Kingdom Community Consultants (“KCC”) and the New Rochelle Corporation for Local Development (“CLD”) — none of them good. They are all invalid, illegal and were routinely violated by both KCC and the CLD. The contracts should

My Response to Lawfare by Dawn Warren, Adam Salgado, and the City of New Rochelle

DUBLIN, IRELAND (January 6, 2025) — Until now, I have not directly addressed the cease and desist letter from Dawn Warren and Adam Salgado and the threatened litigation funded by Will Melendez, Yadira Ramos-Herbert, Shane Osinloye, David Peters, Sara Kaye, and Martha Lopez. I will do so now.

New Rochelle Officials Facing Multiple Criminal Investigations

DUBLIN, IRELAND (January 6, 2025) — The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office has been quietly conducting a wide-ranging criminal probe of New Rochelle City Hall for the past 9 months. The investigation began as an inquiry into the attempted removal of then-City Manager Kathleen Gill by Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert on

Recommended Reading, January 5, 2025

The New Rochelle Thimblerig — Part XIX

DUBLIN, IRELAND (January 5, 2025) — All the Booker T. Washington Vocational Institute contracts between the New Rochelle Corporation for Local Development (“CLD”) and Kingdom Community Consultants, LLC (“KCC”) were illegal because all of them contained a modified No Discrimination clause in the boilerplate language found in typical municipal contracts.

The New Rochelle Thimblerig — Part XVIII

DUBLIN, IRELAND (January 4, 2025) — Kingdom Community Consultants, LLC (“KCC”) is a Domestic Limited Liability Company (#5962257) which first filed with New York State on March 12, 2021. It is an LLC, not a tax-exempt organization, so the precise nature of its ownership structure and its financial records are hidden.

The New Rochelle Thimblerig — Part XVII

DUBLIN, IRELAND (January 2, 2025) — This is a number: $1,168,915.06. That’s the punchline for what will be a multipart arc within my Thimblerig series. Kingdom Community Consultants LLC (“KCC”), is yet another organization with no particular expertise in event management being paid exorbitant sums by the