Friday, April 19, 2013

Another Police Cover-Up in Pelham: Weapons and Grenades Missing


Another Police Cover-Up in Pelham: Weapons and Grenades Missing
April 19, 2013

A stock pile of evidence, including military tear gas grenades and an Army shoulder-fired M79 grenade launcher- items formerly safe-guarded by the Pelham Manor police department- are missing.

The incredible allegations were revealed many months ago, but only recently has confirmation of the troubling event been advanced, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.

The allegations involve the Pelham Manor Police Chief, Al Mosiello, and his boss, Village Manager John T. Pierpont.  

Undocumented workers were reportedly employed to clean out the basement of the Pelham Manor Police Department.  Apparently unknown to the undocumented workers, the items included explosive evidence.  At some point, an Army shoulder-fired M79 grenade launcher and a cache of military grade tear gas grenades were moved by the workers to an outside area adjacent to the police station, and from where the items disappeared.

More alarming, however, is the allegation that Mosiello and Pierpont failed to report, as required, the missing firearms and explosives to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (the "ATF").  

The ATF is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice and is charged with investigating and preventing federal offenses involving the unlawful use, trafficking and control of firearms and explosives.  In 2001, the ATF initiated "Project Safe Neighborhoods," an initiative apparently unknown to the top administrators of the Pelham Manor Police Department. 

Inquiries are on-going.........

Friday, April 12, 2013

Pelham Taxpayers Fund Porn Cover-Up


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."

Check back soon for more on this story………..


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