Pelham Taxpayers Fund Porn Cover-Up
The dramedy-mystery show Desperate Housewives pales with what's going on in zip code 10803....
The salacious side of the Village of Pelham Manor has it all, including porn, good 'ole retaliation, rampant rumors, and the everyday pre-teen stunt of letting the dogs loose on your foe- and so says a federal lawsuit against the VIllage of Pelham Manor and its manager, John Pierpont.
The federal court action has been generating impressive legal fees for over 3 years, but no worry, though, the taxpayers are footing the legal bills for both the village, and personally for the village manager John Pierpont.
And recently, the second highest federal court in America, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, agreed that there's some merit to the case when it sent the case back to the Federal District Court in White Plains for more proceedings.
The allegations contained in the federal lawsuit include the ultimate firing of an employee, a Mr. Pignone, who was apparently seeking to secure a better compensation package for village employees. But then rumors, alleged to have been started by John Pierpont, circulated saying that the employee was only looking out for himself. The self-serving stories, of course, angered the other employees, and that's when the "...campaign of harassing conduct..." began in the small suburban village of Pelham Manor government.
"On one occasion someone within the employ of the Village of Pelham Manor left a pornographic picture on [the former employee's] windshield of two males engaging in oral sex," according to the publicly available March 23, 2010 filed federal action.
Village Manger Pierpont is also accused of intentionally letting his dogs loose when the employee was required to be on Pierpont family property, and despite being asked to confine the canines.
"On two occasions [the employee] found a fake rat hung in his locker."
The harassment got so bad at one point, according to the filing, that the employee Pignone was hospitalized at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle, and needed oxygen.
One retired resident of Pelham Manor was outraged when he heard about the three-year-old lawsuit, saying, "It's the first I've heard of this lawsuit, and it sounds like a cover-up of wasteful spending of my hard-earned tax dollars."
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CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FEDERAL LAWSUIT
Christopher Pignone
v.
Village of Pelham Manor and John Pierpont,
as the Administrator of the Village of Pelham Manor
and in his individual capacity