Supervisor Hires Madison Avenue Private Investigators

Mr Feiner is not happy. Both of his anti-incorporation meetings found his representatives floundering and unable to make the case of why incorporation would not be good for the Town of Greenburgh. He knows he needs to step up his game and can certainly make more opportunities for phony forums, but he desperately needs a win. He may have found a way without getting his hands dirty...

Mr Feiner has hired the private investigative firm named Stanton Private Investigators, of 275 Madison Avenue, 35th Floor, New York, New York, to investigate the validity of the ballot signatures the Edgemont Incorporation Committee turned into Mr Feiner. You may recall we previously wrote that Jeff Sherwin of the Edgemont Incorporation Committee arrived at Town Hall bearing 1400 signature petitions and a $6,000 filing fee to initiate the incorporation process. The legal department would not allow Mr Sherwin his right of filing his petitions or pay the required fee until Mr Feiner returned from vacation. 

Residents in Edgemont are now being blanketed in a door-to-door canvas by Stanton associates who are seeking every person who signed the petition to invalidate as many as possible. We assume they are following Mr Feiner’s orders by asking each of the people who have signed the incorporation petition to sign another document (pictured below). BY SIGNING THIS CAREFULLY CRAFTED NEW DOCUMENT, THE PETITION SIGNERS ARE CANCELLING THEIR ORIGINAL PETITION SIGNATURE! IF YOU FAVOR INCORPORATION, DO NOT SIGN THIS NEW DOCUMENT!

Here's the trick portion of the letter that most unassuming residents will be fooled by. The Edgemont Incorporation boundaries are the same as the Greenville Fire District boundaries. By signing this document, the resident is agreeing to items numbered 3 and 4, which states you were told the proposed territory would be the same as the Edgemont School district. Our sources tell us this was never the case. Number 4 states you were never shown the proposed map or voter registration list. Again, our sources assured us that maps were shown and always available.

In the end, Mr Feiner has gone out of his way to flout his anti-Edgemont incorporation campaign. It is incumbent by law for the Supervisor to validate the petition signatures. To do this, he could have utilized volunteers, interns or he himself could go out and knock on doors asking residents if they signed the petitions. He could have also made phone calls or sent emails. Rather, he has chosen to hire a Madison Avenue Private investigation firm to, we believe, deceive Edgemont residents into invalidating their own signatures! Who is paying for this and how much will this latest folly cost taxpayers? This disgraceful behavior needs to stop. Only then will we get A Better Greenburgh.