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"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
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May 7th 2026 Edition
"UPDATE ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION, CONTINUED - STENCH OF CORRUPTION EMANATING FROM POESTENKILL TOWN HALL HAS HONEST PEOPLE GAGGING AND THROWING UP IN THEIR MOUTHS - A MASTER CLASS IN HOW TO DEFRAUD THE TAXPAYERS, CONTINUED!"
Yes, people, we should all feel real proud as big-time corruption comes to Poestenkill on steroids as the Poestenkill town board goes what is known today in America, and the world, for that matter, since we are all connected, FULL MAGA, with the able assistance of Phil Danaher, who mistakes Poestenkill for some fascist crap hole where "tough guy" lawyers like Phil can tell American citizens here in Poestenkill that they can't ask questions about what is going on here in Poestenkill.
But enough of that for now, because once legal action gets going to challenge this corruption growing like a societal cancer in Poestenkill thanks to Michelle Garafolo, the most openly corrupt supervisor this town has ever been cursed with, there will be time for that later.
So, back to the flim-flam.
At the end of Tom Russell's very stupid farce of a public hearing on Water District No. 2 on 25 April 2024,Tom, June, Eric, Frank and David simply rubber-stamped a Resolution already made out for them before the farcical hearing ever happened, where they approved a version of the plan amended in April of 2024 by Laberge which had never been before the taxpayers in a classic case of BAIT AND SWITCH, so that we have no idea what was approved on 27 June 2024, AFTER the farcical hearing on 25 April 2024, other than that it wasn't what was before the public on 25 April 2024.
So the easily-fooled and PRO-CORRUPT in Poestenkill led like lambs to the slaughter voted to approve something they had no clue as to what they were voting on, the consequences to those of us who aren't stupid, and who are ANTI-CORRUPT, albeit a very small minority here in Water District No. 2, are severe, as § 209-g(1) of Article 12-a of New York State Town Law provides that after a certified copy of the final order of the Poestenkill town board adopted pursuant to the provisions of Article 12-a establishing Poestenkill Water District No. 2 was duly recorded in the office of the Rensselaer County Clerk, and when so recorded, such determination or order shall be presumptive evidence of the regularity of the proceedings for the establishment of Poestenkill Water District No. 2, of the proceedings instituted for the construction of such improvement and of all other action taken by said town board in relation thereto.
So thanks to the PRO-CORRUPTION faction here in Poestenkill, we are all very royally screwed, because we do not have a clue now as to what is approved, and what we are being forced to have to pay for, as TAX SLAVES.
And we know something major was changed between 25 April 2024 and 23 April 2026, for this reason.
In the August 2022 report of the Laberge Group used by the town to secure the funding for the Water District No. 2, in the section titled PROJECT BACKGROUND AND HISTORY in sub-section g) Other Environmental Factors, we had stated that the Town, as required to submit for certain grant funds, had completed the required SEQRA review, declaring water district no. 2 to be an "unlisted" SEQRA" action requiring no review, and had made a Determination of Significance under SEQRA (6 NYCRR Part 617), and that the Town Board (Hammond, Wohlleber, Hass, Butler, Van Slyke) had issued a Negative Declaration on September 8th, 2022, which declared as follows:
Upon review of the information recorded on this EAF, as noted, plus this additional support information within the attached Preliminary Engineering Report and considering both the magnitude and importance of each identified potential impact, it is the conclusion of the Town of Poestenkill as lead agency that:
A. This project will result in no significant adverse impacts on the environment, and, therefore, an environmental impact statement need not be prepared.
Accordingly, this negative declaration is issued.
end quotes
So, in 2022, Water District No. 2 was an unliusted action.
Fast forward to 23 April 2026 when Michelle, Eric, Frank, David and Rodney, Poestenkill's MAGA's, in the grand corrupt style befitting of MAGA's, rubber-stamped a resolution they had already prepared for them by Phil before the so-called public hearing began, where in the second Whereas clause on p. 2, it was clearly stated as follows:
WHEREAS, the capital improvements hereinafter described, as proposed, has been determined to be a Type I Action pursuant to the regulations of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation promulgated pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”), which it has been determined will not have any significant adverse impact on the environment, which determination remains in effect in connection herewith;
Determined to be a Type I Action?
By whom?
And for what?
Nobody knows.
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THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
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POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
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"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 9th 2026 Edition
"CONTINUATION OF UPDATE ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION AS STENCH OF CORRUPTION EMANATING FROM POESTENKILL TOWN HALL CONTINUES TO HAVE HONEST PEOPLE IN POESTENKILL GAGGING AND THROWING UP IN THEIR MOUTHS - A MASTER CLASS IN HOW TO DEFRAUD THE TAXPAYERS, CONTINUED - FORENSIC ANALYSTS UNCOVER A VERY IMPRESSIVE LIST OF FELONIES!"
Before we get back to the details of the blatant criminal activity in Poestenkill in connection with the creation of Poestenkill Water District No. 2 by Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 which forensic investigators say has produced one impressive list of felonies, we need to go back to 1986, where the New York State Legislature in the Legislative Findings of New York State Penal Law § 460.00, stated as follows, to wit:
The legislature finds and determines as follows:
Organized crime in New York state involves highly sophisticated, complex and widespread forms of criminal activity.
The diversified illegal conduct engaged in by organized crime, rooted in the illegal use of force, fraud, and corruption, constitutes a major drain upon the state's economy, costs citizens and businesses of the state billions of dollars each year, and threatens the peace, security and general welfare of the people of the state.
The money and power derived by organized crime through its illegal enterprises and endeavors is increasingly being used to infiltrate and corrupt businesses, unions and other legitimate enterprises and to corrupt our democratic processes.
This infiltration takes several forms with legitimate enterprises being employed as instrumentalities, injured as victims, or taken as prizes.
Yes, people, Poestenkill has indeed been taken as a prize by Laberge, although it might be more accurate to say Poestenkill was handed to Laberge as a prize by corrupt elected officials here in Poestenkill, and when we focus on the sentence in the Legislative Findings that states that the money and power derived by organized crime through its illegal enterprises and endeavors is increasingly being used to corrupt our democratic processes, we find they are talking about the dystopia that Poestenkill has become today where our so-called "democratic processes" have been corrupted to the point of where we don't have any, as was proven by Tom Russell, Frank Burzesi, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass, and June Butler on the evening of 25 April 2024 when Tom and Frank and Eric and David and June all affixed their signatures to an official document riddled with falsehoods and titled Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, which document, as we see from the minutes of the 11 July 2024 Poestenkill Town Board meeting with Tom, Frank, David and June all present and accounted for, was then used to procure $600,000 in Rensselaer County taxpayer funds from "Believe in Steve" McLaughlin, the MAGA Rensselaer County Executive, to wit:
Update on Water District #2 organization & funding efforts following the Referendum passage - Supervisor Russell stated the Town received the monies from Rensselaer County.
The resolution creating the water district has been forwarded to the Laberge Group with revision that the Town Attorney, Ian Silverman, is addressing.
Ongoing work with the Intermunicipal Agreement with Brunswick to transport additional water.
He noted that the Laberge Group may be doing some surveying this fall.
Councilman Hass suggested placing the monies from Rensselaer County into treasuries since we will be holding onto the monies for an extended period.
As to the impressive list of felonies our team of forensic investigators has uncovered to date, it is their belief that when Tom Russell, Frank Burzesi, a licensed professional engineer in NY who has no excuse of ignorance available to him by virtue of his licensure, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and June Butler affixed their signatures to the official public document titled Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 on the evening of 25 April 2024, they knowingly and willfully acted in violation of New York State Penal Law § 175.40, issuing a False Certificate, a Class E Felony which applies when public servants such as Tom Russell, Frank Burzesi, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and June Butler, who are authorized to create official documents, intentionally issue a false certificate or instrument with the intent to defraud, deceive, or injure.
That, people, is exactly what our stalwarts on the Poestenkill town board did to us on the evening of 25 April 2024, with utter contempt for our "democratic processes" - they issued a false certificate or instrument with the intent to defraud, deceive, or injure, and how their supporters in the PRO-CORRUPTION faction here in Poestenkill not only cheered them on, but defended them as well.
Then we jump to the Poestenkill town board obtaining the $600,000 of Rensselaer County taxpayer dollars from "Believe in Steve," by "offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree in alleged violation of New York State Penal Law § 175.35, a Class E Felony, for knowingly filing false records with intent to defraud.
And when Tom and Frank and Eric and David and June actually got their hands on that money, that our forensic investigators allege would trigger charges of larceny, although that is a complex subject still under investigation.
Why that citizen investigation is going on is because those of us in the ANTI-CORRUPTION faction in Poestenkill are very much alone, and we know it, for as Eric Wohlleber made in candescently clear to his cohorts on 23 April 2026, the PRO-CORRUPTION faction in Water District No. 2 outweighs the ANTI-CORRUPTION faction in Water District No. by 88 to 18 or 83% to 17%, and right now, the money and power to influence the outcome of this contest are very much in the hands of the PRO-CORRUPTION faction in Water District No. 2, so we in the ANTI-CORRUPTION faction in Water District No. 2 are being run over by "Steamroller" Michelle Garafolo and buried.
We will get no outside help from the NYSAG, the Comptroller or the Rensselaer County DA and we know it, as like the state's police, they all defer to the "power," and right now here in Poestenkill, that "power," which is raw political power, is very much in the hands of the majority PRO-CORRUPTION factor that is backing the action of Michelle, Frank, Eric, David and Rodney on the evening of 23 April 2026 as they attempt to capitalize on the original fraud of 25 April 2024.
And, people, that is where the ANTI-CORRUPTION faction in Poestenkill is right now, frantically compiling a lawsuit in a race with the clock set ticking by Michelle and Eric and David and Frank and Rodney and Phil, their loyal lawyer on the evening of 23 April 2026, as Michelle tries to capitalize on the 2024 fraud that produced Water District No. 2 in the first place.
More is yet to come on what is a breaking story, so stay tuned.
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"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 9th 2026 Edition
"CONTINUATION OF UPDATE ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION AS STENCH OF CORRUPTION EMANATING FROM POESTENKILL TOWN HALL CONTINUES TO HAVE HONEST PEOPLE IN POESTENKILL GAGGING AND THROWING UP IN THEIR MOUTHS - A MASTER CLASS IN HOW TO DEFRAUD THE TAXPAYERS, CONTINUED - FORENSIC ANALYSTS UNCOVER A VERY IMPRESSIVE LIST OF FELONIES!"
Before we get back to the details of the blatant criminal activity in Poestenkill in connection with the creation of Poestenkill Water District No. 2 by Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 which forensic investigators say has produced one impressive list of felonies, we need to go back to 1986, where the New York State Legislature in the Legislative Findings of New York State Penal Law § 460.00, stated as follows, to wit:
The legislature finds and determines as follows:
Organized crime in New York state involves highly sophisticated, complex and widespread forms of criminal activity.
The diversified illegal conduct engaged in by organized crime, rooted in the illegal use of force, fraud, and corruption, constitutes a major drain upon the state's economy, costs citizens and businesses of the state billions of dollars each year, and threatens the peace, security and general welfare of the people of the state.
The money and power derived by organized crime through its illegal enterprises and endeavors is increasingly being used to infiltrate and corrupt businesses, unions and other legitimate enterprises and to corrupt our democratic processes.
This infiltration takes several forms with legitimate enterprises being employed as instrumentalities, injured as victims, or taken as prizes.
Yes, people, Poestenkill has indeed been taken as a prize by Laberge, although it might be more accurate to say Poestenkill was handed to Laberge as a prize by corrupt elected officials here in Poestenkill, and when we focus on the sentence in the Legislative Findings that states that the money and power derived by organized crime through its illegal enterprises and endeavors is increasingly being used to corrupt our democratic processes, we find they are talking about the dystopia that Poestenkill has become today where our so-called "democratic processes" have been corrupted to the point of where we don't have any, as was proven by Tom Russell, Frank Burzesi, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass, and June Butler on the evening of 25 April 2024 when Tom and Frank and Eric and David and June all affixed their signatures to an official document riddled with falsehoods and titled Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, which document, as we see from the minutes of the 11 July 2024 Poestenkill Town Board meeting with Tom, Frank, David and June all present and accounted for, was then used to procure $600,000 in Rensselaer County taxpayer funds from "Believe in Steve" McLaughlin, the MAGA Rensselaer County Executive, to wit:
Update on Water District #2 organization & funding efforts following the Referendum passage - Supervisor Russell stated the Town received the monies from Rensselaer County.
The resolution creating the water district has been forwarded to the Laberge Group with revision that the Town Attorney, Ian Silverman, is addressing.
Ongoing work with the Intermunicipal Agreement with Brunswick to transport additional water.
He noted that the Laberge Group may be doing some surveying this fall.
Councilman Hass suggested placing the monies from Rensselaer County into treasuries since we will be holding onto the monies for an extended period.
As to the impressive list of felonies our team of forensic investigators has uncovered to date, it is their belief that when Tom Russell, Frank Burzesi, a licensed professional engineer in NY who has no excuse of ignorance available to him by virtue of his licensure, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and June Butler affixed their signatures to the official public document titled Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 on the evening of 25 April 2024, they knowingly and willfully acted in violation of New York State Penal Law § 175.40, issuing a False Certificate, a Class E Felony which applies when public servants such as Tom Russell, Frank Burzesi, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and June Butler, who are authorized to create official documents, intentionally issue a false certificate or instrument with the intent to defraud, deceive, or injure.
That, people, is exactly what our stalwarts on the Poestenkill town board did to us on the evening of 25 April 2024, with utter contempt for our "democratic processes" - they issued a false certificate or instrument with the intent to defraud, deceive, or injure, and how their supporters in the PRO-CORRUPTION faction here in Poestenkill not only cheered them on, but defended them as well.
Then we jump to the Poestenkill town board obtaining the $600,000 of Rensselaer County taxpayer dollars from "Believe in Steve," by "offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree in alleged violation of New York State Penal Law § 175.35, a Class E Felony, for knowingly filing false records with intent to defraud.
And when Tom and Frank and Eric and David and June actually got their hands on that money, that our forensic investigators allege would trigger charges of larceny, although that is a complex subject still under investigation.
Why that citizen investigation is going on is because those of us in the ANTI-CORRUPTION faction in Poestenkill are very much alone, and we know it, for as Eric Wohlleber made in candescently clear to his cohorts on 23 April 2026, the PRO-CORRUPTION faction in Water District No. 2 outweighs the ANTI-CORRUPTION faction in Water District No. by 88 to 18 or 83% to 17%, and right now, the money and power to influence the outcome of this contest are very much in the hands of the PRO-CORRUPTION faction in Water District No. 2, so we in the ANTI-CORRUPTION faction in Water District No. 2 are being run over by "Steamroller" Michelle Garafolo and buried.
We will get no outside help from the NYSAG, the Comptroller or the Rensselaer County DA and we know it, as like the state's police, they all defer to the "power," and right now here in Poestenkill, that "power," which is raw political power, is very much in the hands of the majority PRO-CORRUPTION factor that is backing the action of Michelle, Frank, Eric, David and Rodney on the evening of 23 April 2026 as they attempt to capitalize on the original fraud of 25 April 2024.
And, people, that is where the ANTI-CORRUPTION faction in Poestenkill is right now, frantically compiling a lawsuit in a race with the clock set ticking by Michelle and Eric and David and Frank and Rodney and Phil, their loyal lawyer on the evening of 23 April 2026, as Michelle tries to capitalize on the 2024 fraud that produced Water District No. 2 in the first place.
More is yet to come on what is a breaking story, so stay tuned.
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POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 14th 2026 Edition
"FURTHER UPDATE ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION - TAXATION BASED ON FRAUD WILL NOT STAND!"
Yes, people, fraud!
Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026 is what is known as a false instrument, which is an authentic-looking document that contains materially false or misleading information.
The false instrument that is Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026, which was unanimously approved on the evening of 23 April 2026 by Michelle Garafolo, Frank Burzesis as NYSPE 070866, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and Rodney Rescott carries forward a fraud on the Poestenkill taxpayers that is embodied in the false instrument that is Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, which false instrument was approved on the evening of 25 April 2024 by Thomas Russell, Frank Burzesi as NYSPE 070866, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and June Butler.
The materially false statement in the false instrument that is Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2025 approved by Thomas Russell, Frank Burzesi as NYSPE 070866, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and June Butler on the evening of 25 April 2024 is contained in the first Whereas clause on p.1 of Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 wherein was stated as follows:
WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Poestenkill (“Town Board”) has duly caused to be prepared a Map, Plan and Report for the Town of Poestenkill Water District No. 2, including a map showing the boundaries of the proposed Water District No. 2, a general plan to serve the proposed water district, and a report on the proposed method of operation thereof;
That statement is false on its face because there never has been a Map, Plan and Report for Water District No. 2.
And that statement carries forward a fraud on the taxpayers of Poestenkill on 11 May 2023 when the people of Poestenkill were presented with nothing more than a series of Power Point slides by Michelle's engineer, Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464.
A competent engineer would know that Power Point slides do not constitute a map, plan and report prepared by a competent engineer, duly licensed by the state of New York, showing the boundaries of the proposed district and a general plan of the proposed sewer, drainage or water system, as the case may be, and a report of the proposed method of operation as is required by New York Town Law § 209-c, and thus would be guilty of fraud and dishonesty, which constitutes professional misconduct according to New York Education Law § 6509(2), "practicing the profession fraudulently, beyond its authorized scope, with gross incompetence, with gross negligence on a particular occasion or negligence or incompetence on more than one occasion;" and New York Education Law § 6509(9), "committing unprofessional conduct, as defined by the board of regents in its rules or by the commissioner in regulations approved by the board of regents."
If the engineer were in turn to plead that he did not know that Power Point slides did not satisfy the requirements of New York Town Law § 209-c, he is admitting incompetence, which he is required by 8 NYCRR § 29.3(1) to report to the Education Department.
If he pleads that he was doing what the town board told him to do, he is admitting to aiding and abetting unlawful practice of the profession in violation of New York Education Law § 7202.
Nor can they say they are following the advice of counsel, which is an admission of incompetence and misconduct.
In short, a professional engineer has no excuses to commit professional misconduct and like with murder, there is no statute of limitations that allows a professional engineer to get past responsibility for his misconduct by outwaiting the ticking of a clock.
Thus, for all acts of professional misconduct by professional engineers involved with Poestenkill Water District No. 2 going back to 2021 and coming forward to the moment in time when on the evening of 23 April 2026, Professional Engineer Frank Burzesi, NYSPE 070866, acting under color of law as a sworn public officer of the Municipal Corporation in the state of New York that is the town of Poestenkill, took the final action in what is alleged to be a constructive fraud with regard to the formation of Water District No. 2 going back in stages to 2021, and coming forward with successive false instruments, each legitimizing the previous false instrument into the public record in Poestenkill, which constructive fraud continued with an instrument titled Public Interest Order and Resolution #24-2026, being accepted by the town board into the record on 23 April 2026, which instrument, Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026, is what is known as a false instrument, which is an authentic-looking document that contains materially false or misleading information.
Which now raises the legal question, which can only be resolved in a Court of actual law, not the fake law we are dished out here in Poestenkill, where according to our own town records, after the false instrument known as Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 was approved by Frank Burzesi on 25 April 2024, which false instrument was based on fraud and dishonesty back on 11 May 2023, according to the minutes of the 11 July 2024 Poestenkill Town Board meeting, we have as follows:
The resolution creating the water district has been forwarded to the Laberge Group with revision that the Town Attorney, Ian Silverman, is addressing.
So, according to that, the false instrument known as Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, which false instrument, approved by Frank Burzesi on 25 April 2024, served to legitimize the unprofessional conduct by Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464, on 11 May 2023, was sent back to Ronald Joseph Laberge as NYSPE 065464 by Poestenkill to be revised into who knows what, because the 88 people who voted to approve Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 on 27 June 2024 had absolutely no idea of what they were approving, just that they thought they were going to get a lot of money out of it, when the truth is that it is Laberge who is going to get a lot of money out of them, instead.
The Resolution creating the water district in 2024 was based on Power Point slides that Ronald Joseph Laberge presented to the gullible taxpayers of Poestenkill on 11 May 2023, and on 27 June 2024, 88 people put it on the record that they were in approval with the fraud, thus making it a legal entity, the fraud, that is.
When the hearing was re-opened on 23 April 2024, when Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 was approved, Frank Burzesi approved it based on a different set of Power Point slides than had been billed as the Map, Plan and Report on 11 May 2023.
And on 25 April 2024, Frank Burzesi watched as Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464 engaged in what professional engineers know as HUCKSTERISM, where the term is known by professional engineers like Frank Burzesi to refer to the practice of using aggressive, showy, or deceptive methods to promote, advertise, or sell a product, which is this case is Water District No. 2, a legal chimera, because based on fraud, it doesn't have a true legal existence as an improvement district.
As to the key characteristics of HUCKSTERISM such as Frank Burzesi is promoting here in Poestenkill as a means of gaining fraudulent approval of water districts, they, include the high-pressure tactics prioritizing the sale of the services of Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464 over transparency and genuine customer needs.
Then we have deceptive claims, as in Ronald Joseph Laberge as NYSPE 065464 exaggerating the value or quality of shoddy, cheap, or even worthless items, in this case, the soaker hose known as Poestenkill Water District No. 1.
And who can forget the performative showmanship of Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464, using his flashy presentations as to all the money he could bring into Poestenkill, and his charismatic gimmicks, the ever-changing Power Point slides, to distract from the actual lack of substance of the goods being sold, which were empty Power Point slides that mean absolutely nothing since they have no formal existence as legal instruments, not bearing anywhere on them the stamp of a competent engineer licensed to practice as an engineer in the state of New York with a duty to safeguard life, health and property.
The final step in the fraud is for Phil Danaher to get the false instrument known as Poestenkill Resolution # 24-2026 that was accepted into the record as a public document and approved the same evening by Frank Burzesi, who by doing so, legitimized the acts of consecutive fraud in connection with the approval of Water District No. 2 going back to 2021 into the hands of some outside bond counsel, and then we are truly done, as we are going to be taxed and taxed and taxed some more based on that fraud with no recourse available, as we saw on 23 April 2026, when only one person had the courage to stand up and ask why they were there that night.
As for the usual suspects, they were more than happy to have the fraud approved.
And that is now the ball of wax and can of worms that have been handed to the Poestenkill Eighteen, or the minority Anti-Corruption faction in Poestenkill Water District No. 2 by the team of forensic analysts who have been working diligently to unravel this slick maze of a scam perpetrated on its own inhabitants by the Municipal Corporation of Poestenkill.
Sadly, the prospects of getting this into Court for a challenge before Phil Danaher can get that false instrument into the hands of this bond counsel are diminishing by the day, as this fraud is so complex that it is almost impossible to articulate to a Judge exactly what happened.
What the next step will be in this race against time is difficult to now predict.
It is a given that having ignored the law as written all along during the Water District No. 2 approval process that Poestenkill intends to plow on regardless.
Can the Poestenkill Eighteen get the fraud stopped?
Stay tuned!
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 14th 2026 Edition
"FURTHER UPDATE ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION - TAXATION BASED ON FRAUD WILL NOT STAND!"
Yes, people, fraud!
Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026 is what is known as a false instrument, which is an authentic-looking document that contains materially false or misleading information.
The false instrument that is Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026, which was unanimously approved on the evening of 23 April 2026 by Michelle Garafolo, Frank Burzesis as NYSPE 070866, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and Rodney Rescott carries forward a fraud on the Poestenkill taxpayers that is embodied in the false instrument that is Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, which false instrument was approved on the evening of 25 April 2024 by Thomas Russell, Frank Burzesi as NYSPE 070866, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and June Butler.
The materially false statement in the false instrument that is Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2025 approved by Thomas Russell, Frank Burzesi as NYSPE 070866, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and June Butler on the evening of 25 April 2024 is contained in the first Whereas clause on p.1 of Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 wherein was stated as follows:
WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Poestenkill (“Town Board”) has duly caused to be prepared a Map, Plan and Report for the Town of Poestenkill Water District No. 2, including a map showing the boundaries of the proposed Water District No. 2, a general plan to serve the proposed water district, and a report on the proposed method of operation thereof;
That statement is false on its face because there never has been a Map, Plan and Report for Water District No. 2.
And that statement carries forward a fraud on the taxpayers of Poestenkill on 11 May 2023 when the people of Poestenkill were presented with nothing more than a series of Power Point slides by Michelle's engineer, Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464.
A competent engineer would know that Power Point slides do not constitute a map, plan and report prepared by a competent engineer, duly licensed by the state of New York, showing the boundaries of the proposed district and a general plan of the proposed sewer, drainage or water system, as the case may be, and a report of the proposed method of operation as is required by New York Town Law § 209-c, and thus would be guilty of fraud and dishonesty, which constitutes professional misconduct according to New York Education Law § 6509(2), "practicing the profession fraudulently, beyond its authorized scope, with gross incompetence, with gross negligence on a particular occasion or negligence or incompetence on more than one occasion;" and New York Education Law § 6509(9), "committing unprofessional conduct, as defined by the board of regents in its rules or by the commissioner in regulations approved by the board of regents."
If the engineer were in turn to plead that he did not know that Power Point slides did not satisfy the requirements of New York Town Law § 209-c, he is admitting incompetence, which he is required by 8 NYCRR § 29.3(1) to report to the Education Department.
If he pleads that he was doing what the town board told him to do, he is admitting to aiding and abetting unlawful practice of the profession in violation of New York Education Law § 7202.
Nor can they say they are following the advice of counsel, which is an admission of incompetence and misconduct.
In short, a professional engineer has no excuses to commit professional misconduct and like with murder, there is no statute of limitations that allows a professional engineer to get past responsibility for his misconduct by outwaiting the ticking of a clock.
Thus, for all acts of professional misconduct by professional engineers involved with Poestenkill Water District No. 2 going back to 2021 and coming forward to the moment in time when on the evening of 23 April 2026, Professional Engineer Frank Burzesi, NYSPE 070866, acting under color of law as a sworn public officer of the Municipal Corporation in the state of New York that is the town of Poestenkill, took the final action in what is alleged to be a constructive fraud with regard to the formation of Water District No. 2 going back in stages to 2021, and coming forward with successive false instruments, each legitimizing the previous false instrument into the public record in Poestenkill, which constructive fraud continued with an instrument titled Public Interest Order and Resolution #24-2026, being accepted by the town board into the record on 23 April 2026, which instrument, Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026, is what is known as a false instrument, which is an authentic-looking document that contains materially false or misleading information.
Which now raises the legal question, which can only be resolved in a Court of actual law, not the fake law we are dished out here in Poestenkill, where according to our own town records, after the false instrument known as Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 was approved by Frank Burzesi on 25 April 2024, which false instrument was based on fraud and dishonesty back on 11 May 2023, according to the minutes of the 11 July 2024 Poestenkill Town Board meeting, we have as follows:
The resolution creating the water district has been forwarded to the Laberge Group with revision that the Town Attorney, Ian Silverman, is addressing.
So, according to that, the false instrument known as Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, which false instrument, approved by Frank Burzesi on 25 April 2024, served to legitimize the unprofessional conduct by Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464, on 11 May 2023, was sent back to Ronald Joseph Laberge as NYSPE 065464 by Poestenkill to be revised into who knows what, because the 88 people who voted to approve Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 on 27 June 2024 had absolutely no idea of what they were approving, just that they thought they were going to get a lot of money out of it, when the truth is that it is Laberge who is going to get a lot of money out of them, instead.
The Resolution creating the water district in 2024 was based on Power Point slides that Ronald Joseph Laberge presented to the gullible taxpayers of Poestenkill on 11 May 2023, and on 27 June 2024, 88 people put it on the record that they were in approval with the fraud, thus making it a legal entity, the fraud, that is.
When the hearing was re-opened on 23 April 2024, when Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 was approved, Frank Burzesi approved it based on a different set of Power Point slides than had been billed as the Map, Plan and Report on 11 May 2023.
And on 25 April 2024, Frank Burzesi watched as Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464 engaged in what professional engineers know as HUCKSTERISM, where the term is known by professional engineers like Frank Burzesi to refer to the practice of using aggressive, showy, or deceptive methods to promote, advertise, or sell a product, which is this case is Water District No. 2, a legal chimera, because based on fraud, it doesn't have a true legal existence as an improvement district.
As to the key characteristics of HUCKSTERISM such as Frank Burzesi is promoting here in Poestenkill as a means of gaining fraudulent approval of water districts, they, include the high-pressure tactics prioritizing the sale of the services of Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464 over transparency and genuine customer needs.
Then we have deceptive claims, as in Ronald Joseph Laberge as NYSPE 065464 exaggerating the value or quality of shoddy, cheap, or even worthless items, in this case, the soaker hose known as Poestenkill Water District No. 1.
And who can forget the performative showmanship of Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464, using his flashy presentations as to all the money he could bring into Poestenkill, and his charismatic gimmicks, the ever-changing Power Point slides, to distract from the actual lack of substance of the goods being sold, which were empty Power Point slides that mean absolutely nothing since they have no formal existence as legal instruments, not bearing anywhere on them the stamp of a competent engineer licensed to practice as an engineer in the state of New York with a duty to safeguard life, health and property.
The final step in the fraud is for Phil Danaher to get the false instrument known as Poestenkill Resolution # 24-2026 that was accepted into the record as a public document and approved the same evening by Frank Burzesi, who by doing so, legitimized the acts of consecutive fraud in connection with the approval of Water District No. 2 going back to 2021 into the hands of some outside bond counsel, and then we are truly done, as we are going to be taxed and taxed and taxed some more based on that fraud with no recourse available, as we saw on 23 April 2026, when only one person had the courage to stand up and ask why they were there that night.
As for the usual suspects, they were more than happy to have the fraud approved.
And that is now the ball of wax and can of worms that have been handed to the Poestenkill Eighteen, or the minority Anti-Corruption faction in Poestenkill Water District No. 2 by the team of forensic analysts who have been working diligently to unravel this slick maze of a scam perpetrated on its own inhabitants by the Municipal Corporation of Poestenkill.
Sadly, the prospects of getting this into Court for a challenge before Phil Danaher can get that false instrument into the hands of this bond counsel are diminishing by the day, as this fraud is so complex that it is almost impossible to articulate to a Judge exactly what happened.
What the next step will be in this race against time is difficult to now predict.
It is a given that having ignored the law as written all along during the Water District No. 2 approval process that Poestenkill intends to plow on regardless.
Can the Poestenkill Eighteen get the fraud stopped?
Stay tuned!
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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May 18th 2026 Edition
"FURTHER UPDATE ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION - POESTENKILL AS A GRIFTER - TAXATION OF THE POESTENKILL EIGHTEEN BASED ON FRAUD CONDONED AND ENCOURAGED BY THE PRO-CORRUPTION POESTENKILL EIGHTY-EIGHT WILL NOT STAND - DOCUMENTATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS NOW ON-GOING - WHEN FIRST THESE FRAUDSTERS SET OUT TO DECEIVE THE GULLIBLE IN POESTENKILL WATER DISTRICT NO. 2, OF WHOM THERE WERE MANY, WHAT A WONDERFULLY TIGHT WEB THEY DID WEAVE"
Yes, people - BE POESTENKILL PROUD!
For as the team of forensic investigators seeking justice for the Poestenkill Eighteen, which under-privileged minority group in Poestenkill has within it three residents over 80 years of age, now known as the WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 ELDERLY VICTIMS THREE, the swindling of whom is what gives this fraud on those people by the GRIFTER Poestenkill a real special Poestenkill flavor, have uncovered an honest-to-goodness first-time-ever textbook case of a Municipal Corporation, Poestenkill, using "grift," which is a fraudulent scheme, scam, or confidence game used to obtain money, in this case first the bank accounts of the three elderly victims of the Poestenkill Eighteen, who all live in the second or third-class neighborhood of Poestenkill on the wrong side of Rt. 66 on Liberty Lane, and then the property of the ELDERLY VICTIMS THREE when they can no longer pay the water tax on their land, through deception, which makes Poestenkill, who is executing this deception, a grifter, plain and simple, a mark of true distinction here in Rensselaer County where an indictment of a public official wins them a pay raise, while a conviction gets their name on a building as a sign of honor.
As we all saw here in Poestenkill on the evening of the 23 April 2026 town board public hearing on Resolution #24-2026, how Grifting, which is an art form, works is by exploiting of trust. (Cue, Youtube, Poestenkill Special Town Meeting Water district #2 4/23/26 @ 20:32, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzZLuKrUCbU )
And as we all saw on the evening of 11 May 2023 at the Poestenkill Water District No. 2 public hearing, where Ronald Joseph Laberge as NYSPE 065464 made it clear on the record that was being presented that night was in his own words "approximate numbers," Grifters rely on cleverness, manipulation, and the victim's trust rather than physical force.
And here is where a difference in opinion has entered in: while related to the broad concepts of fraud or theft, "grift" usually refers to smaller-scale ripoffs, like selling fake products, in this case Water District No. 2, for which there was no map, plan and report on 11 May 2023 as Laberge himself freely admitted, running rigged games such as the 27 June 2024 Referendum on Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, which alleged false instrument served to give existence to Poestenkill Water District as a TAXING VEHICLE for Poestenkill, which is what this Water District No. 2 CON JOB was all about, fleecing the elderly in Water District No. 2 because they are so very easy to exploit, or fake charities.
As to Poestenkill being defined today as a "grifter," we must consider that a grifter is a con artist or scammer who uses deception, tricks, or fraud to swindle people out of their money, which is exactly what Poestenkill intends to do, and has started the process of doing, on the evening of 23 April 2026, when Michelle Garafolo, up from MAGA Florida as a confidence trickster to swindle the elderly in Poestenkill in order to make a name for herself in Rensselaer County political circles as player to be reckoned with, along with Frank Burzesi as NYSPE 070866, the old trusty political stalwarts Eric Wohlleber and David Hass, and joined by political new-comer Rodney Rescott, executed Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026, which official Poestenkill record is based on patently false statements that at least Frank Burzesi, Eric Wohlleber and David Hass would know were false at the time they voted to approve Resolution #24-2026 on 23 April 2026, making Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026 an alleged false instrument as that term would be used in a prosecution for willful violation of New York Penal Law § 175.35, presenting a written instrument to a public office or public servant while knowing it contains false statements, with the knowledge or belief that it will become part of that office's official records with the intent to defraud the state or any political subdivision.
As the term "grifter" is a slang term for a confidence man, and legally, if that term still means something, the behaviors of a grifter like Poestenkill fall under criminal offenses like fraud, larceny, or theft.
So, in a legal and practical sense, while critics on the forensic investigatory team argue that a municipal corporation like Poestenkill in a court of law would not be legally classified as a "grifter," they are forced to have to agree that where it can clearly be demonstrated based on real, incontrovertible and uncontestable factual evidence such as exists in this case of alleged constructive fraud that Poestenkill has engaged in fraud against its inhabitants, Poestenkill itself can be held liable for official misconduct, civil fraud, or civil rights violations.
As to why Poestenkill in a Court of law would not be considered a true grifter, just a wanna-be, municipalities in New York are governed by administrative law, state statutes, and public accountability, leading to different legal distinctions.
So, where the term "grifter," which fits Poestenkill like a fine-crafted glove, generally describes an individual or a private enterprise utilizing confidence games for personal financial gain such as we all saw in Poestenkill on 11 May 2023 at the Poestenkill fire house regarding Water District No. 2 (cue, News 10 video of May 11, 2023 public hearing
https://www.news10.com/video/proposed-5 ... l/8640983/ ), municipal corporations such as Poestenkill are legally recognized local governments intended to provide public services, manage infrastructure, and collect taxes.
Accordingly, when and if a municipal government such as Poestenkill or its elected officials such as Michelle Garafolo, Frank Burzesi, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and Rodney Rescott intentionally deceive inhabitants to extract money, e.g., fraudulent tax assessments, that would be referred to as official corruption, misfeasance, or fraud.
Thus, the victims of municipal fraud, in this case the Poestenkill Eighteen, have legal recourse rather than just labeling the entity a "grifter," which legal recourse includes filing lawsuits under the New York State False Claims Act for misuse of public funds, pursuing constitutional violations under federal civil rights laws like 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the deprivation of property without due process, or reporting the misconduct directly to the New York State Authorities.
To do that last, report the misconduct directly to the New York authorities, it is first necessary to do all the very tedious work of going through the entire record concerning Water District No. 2, which record goes back past a 12/23/21 PFOA UPDATE: BY Bob Brunet, Water Manager/Public Health Coordinator of Poestenkill wherein was stated as follows:
At the December 16th Town Board meeting the Board approved engaging the LaBerge Group to work on expanding our Water District and likely establishing a second Water District #2.
We believe that we can obtain very significant grant monies to help accomplish this.
And so they have!
Fraud pays!
And we are the ones now stuck with the bill!
Stay tuned - this is a breaking story!
Updates as they occur!
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 18th 2026 Edition
"FURTHER UPDATE ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION - POESTENKILL AS A GRIFTER - TAXATION OF THE POESTENKILL EIGHTEEN BASED ON FRAUD CONDONED AND ENCOURAGED BY THE PRO-CORRUPTION POESTENKILL EIGHTY-EIGHT WILL NOT STAND - DOCUMENTATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS NOW ON-GOING - WHEN FIRST THESE FRAUDSTERS SET OUT TO DECEIVE THE GULLIBLE IN POESTENKILL WATER DISTRICT NO. 2, OF WHOM THERE WERE MANY, WHAT A WONDERFULLY TIGHT WEB THEY DID WEAVE"
Yes, people - BE POESTENKILL PROUD!
For as the team of forensic investigators seeking justice for the Poestenkill Eighteen, which under-privileged minority group in Poestenkill has within it three residents over 80 years of age, now known as the WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 ELDERLY VICTIMS THREE, the swindling of whom is what gives this fraud on those people by the GRIFTER Poestenkill a real special Poestenkill flavor, have uncovered an honest-to-goodness first-time-ever textbook case of a Municipal Corporation, Poestenkill, using "grift," which is a fraudulent scheme, scam, or confidence game used to obtain money, in this case first the bank accounts of the three elderly victims of the Poestenkill Eighteen, who all live in the second or third-class neighborhood of Poestenkill on the wrong side of Rt. 66 on Liberty Lane, and then the property of the ELDERLY VICTIMS THREE when they can no longer pay the water tax on their land, through deception, which makes Poestenkill, who is executing this deception, a grifter, plain and simple, a mark of true distinction here in Rensselaer County where an indictment of a public official wins them a pay raise, while a conviction gets their name on a building as a sign of honor.
As we all saw here in Poestenkill on the evening of the 23 April 2026 town board public hearing on Resolution #24-2026, how Grifting, which is an art form, works is by exploiting of trust. (Cue, Youtube, Poestenkill Special Town Meeting Water district #2 4/23/26 @ 20:32, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzZLuKrUCbU )
And as we all saw on the evening of 11 May 2023 at the Poestenkill Water District No. 2 public hearing, where Ronald Joseph Laberge as NYSPE 065464 made it clear on the record that was being presented that night was in his own words "approximate numbers," Grifters rely on cleverness, manipulation, and the victim's trust rather than physical force.
And here is where a difference in opinion has entered in: while related to the broad concepts of fraud or theft, "grift" usually refers to smaller-scale ripoffs, like selling fake products, in this case Water District No. 2, for which there was no map, plan and report on 11 May 2023 as Laberge himself freely admitted, running rigged games such as the 27 June 2024 Referendum on Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, which alleged false instrument served to give existence to Poestenkill Water District as a TAXING VEHICLE for Poestenkill, which is what this Water District No. 2 CON JOB was all about, fleecing the elderly in Water District No. 2 because they are so very easy to exploit, or fake charities.
As to Poestenkill being defined today as a "grifter," we must consider that a grifter is a con artist or scammer who uses deception, tricks, or fraud to swindle people out of their money, which is exactly what Poestenkill intends to do, and has started the process of doing, on the evening of 23 April 2026, when Michelle Garafolo, up from MAGA Florida as a confidence trickster to swindle the elderly in Poestenkill in order to make a name for herself in Rensselaer County political circles as player to be reckoned with, along with Frank Burzesi as NYSPE 070866, the old trusty political stalwarts Eric Wohlleber and David Hass, and joined by political new-comer Rodney Rescott, executed Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026, which official Poestenkill record is based on patently false statements that at least Frank Burzesi, Eric Wohlleber and David Hass would know were false at the time they voted to approve Resolution #24-2026 on 23 April 2026, making Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026 an alleged false instrument as that term would be used in a prosecution for willful violation of New York Penal Law § 175.35, presenting a written instrument to a public office or public servant while knowing it contains false statements, with the knowledge or belief that it will become part of that office's official records with the intent to defraud the state or any political subdivision.
As the term "grifter" is a slang term for a confidence man, and legally, if that term still means something, the behaviors of a grifter like Poestenkill fall under criminal offenses like fraud, larceny, or theft.
So, in a legal and practical sense, while critics on the forensic investigatory team argue that a municipal corporation like Poestenkill in a court of law would not be legally classified as a "grifter," they are forced to have to agree that where it can clearly be demonstrated based on real, incontrovertible and uncontestable factual evidence such as exists in this case of alleged constructive fraud that Poestenkill has engaged in fraud against its inhabitants, Poestenkill itself can be held liable for official misconduct, civil fraud, or civil rights violations.
As to why Poestenkill in a Court of law would not be considered a true grifter, just a wanna-be, municipalities in New York are governed by administrative law, state statutes, and public accountability, leading to different legal distinctions.
So, where the term "grifter," which fits Poestenkill like a fine-crafted glove, generally describes an individual or a private enterprise utilizing confidence games for personal financial gain such as we all saw in Poestenkill on 11 May 2023 at the Poestenkill fire house regarding Water District No. 2 (cue, News 10 video of May 11, 2023 public hearing
https://www.news10.com/video/proposed-5 ... l/8640983/ ), municipal corporations such as Poestenkill are legally recognized local governments intended to provide public services, manage infrastructure, and collect taxes.
Accordingly, when and if a municipal government such as Poestenkill or its elected officials such as Michelle Garafolo, Frank Burzesi, Eric Wohlleber, David Hass and Rodney Rescott intentionally deceive inhabitants to extract money, e.g., fraudulent tax assessments, that would be referred to as official corruption, misfeasance, or fraud.
Thus, the victims of municipal fraud, in this case the Poestenkill Eighteen, have legal recourse rather than just labeling the entity a "grifter," which legal recourse includes filing lawsuits under the New York State False Claims Act for misuse of public funds, pursuing constitutional violations under federal civil rights laws like 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the deprivation of property without due process, or reporting the misconduct directly to the New York State Authorities.
To do that last, report the misconduct directly to the New York authorities, it is first necessary to do all the very tedious work of going through the entire record concerning Water District No. 2, which record goes back past a 12/23/21 PFOA UPDATE: BY Bob Brunet, Water Manager/Public Health Coordinator of Poestenkill wherein was stated as follows:
At the December 16th Town Board meeting the Board approved engaging the LaBerge Group to work on expanding our Water District and likely establishing a second Water District #2.
We believe that we can obtain very significant grant monies to help accomplish this.
And so they have!
Fraud pays!
And we are the ones now stuck with the bill!
Stay tuned - this is a breaking story!
Updates as they occur!
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 25th 2026 Edition
"THE MEMORIAL DAY EDITION IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE, GIVING THEIR LIVES TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WE IN POESTENKILL'S WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 TODAY NO LONGER HAVE - APPROVAL OF RATE INCREASE FOR WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 TRIGGERS 42 USC 1983 ACTION FOR DEPRIVATION OF 14th AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS RIGHTS - POESTENKILL HONORED AS A PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT ABUSER COMMUNITY!"
In one of those many ironies associated with the upside-down, self-serving, self-dealing politics of Rensselaer County, according to the minutes of the 10 November 2022 Poestenkill Town Board meeting, then-Supervisor Hammond reported that Senator Daphne Jordan honored the Town with a Proclamation recognizing the Town of Poestenkill as a Purple Heart Community.
So the question on this Memorial Day, which used to be called Decoration Day when I was young here in Poestenkill, is what did Poestenkill ever do for a veteran with a Purple Heart that would earn it a commendation as a Purple heart Community?
According to the internet, a Purple Heart Community in New York is a municipality such as Poestenkill that has passed an official resolution to honor local military veterans who were wounded or killed in combat.
Supposedly, it is a non-partisan tribute designed to publicly show appreciation and support for the nation's oldest military medal, the Purple Heart.
And here is where things get real strange because the goal is to express gratitude to combat-wounded veterans, foster a supportive environment for military families, and promote patriotism.
As to Poestenkill expressing gratitude to combat-wounded veterans here in Poestenkill, we just had a vivid example of that with Poestenkill stripping twice-wounded combat veteran Paul Plante of his 1st Amendment right to petition the government with respect to the approval of the false instrument which created Poestenkill Water District No. 2 on 25 April 2024, and which false instrument was then laundered through the "system" on the evening of 23 April 2026, when the original false instrument became the basis for a new false instrument unilaterally and arbitrarily raising the taxation rate in Water District No. 2.
And as to judicial relief pursuant to 42 USC 1983 at this point of the constructive fraud associated with Water District No. 2, like the stink associated with some large, dead animal rotting in a roadside ditch, what we witnessed the Garafolo Regime officially record on the evening of 23 April 2026 was not a legitimate municipal action.
To the contrary, it was a false instrument designed to bypass the mandatory procedural safeguards of New York Town Law.
The Town Board on the evening of 23 April 2026, under the supervision, guidance and direction of Philip Danaher, Esquire, the sworn Officer of the Court who serves as the lawyer for the Garafolo Regime, unilaterally entered a resolution to increase the authorized expenditures for Water District No. 2, entirely stripping the district's property owners of their statutory due process rights, including their right to a permissive referendum.
Under New York law, a special improvement district is a distinct legal entity held in trust.
The taxpayers and property owners within the district are the equitable owners and primary beneficiaries of its assets; the Town Board are merely fiduciaries and administrators of those assets.
This fiduciary relationship means the Board cannot arbitrarily seize financial control, or unilaterally encumber the district with unvoted debt, without strictly adhering to statutory procedure.
By entering this document titled "In the Matter of a Proposed Increase... in the Maximum Amount Authorized to be Expended" into the official town records, the Board committed a procedural due process violation under the Fourteenth Amendment in that they have executed a legal maneuver that changes the maximum amount authorized to be expended without giving the equitable owners the notice and opportunity to be heard that are guaranteed by law.
Thus, pursuant to 42 USC 1983, the affected inhabitants are challenging the false instrument created on the evening of 23 April 2026 with regard to the increase in the taxation rate in Water District No., which is being described in Court papers as a "prodigious engine of fraud."
The 42 USC 1983 action is intended to demonstrate to a Court of Law that the governing body of Poestenkill on the evening of 23 April 2026, that being the Garafolo Regime, acting as fiduciaries for Water District No. 2, fundamentally breached their duties and deprived the residents of their constitutionally protected property interests without due process of law.
Thus, the 42 USC 1983 action asks the Court to review the official record and declare Poestenkill Resolution #245-2026 void ab initio, which is a Latin legal term meaning "to be treated as invalid from the outset."
In other words, as used herein, it describes an action, in this case the approval of Resolution #24-2026 on 23 April 2026, that never had any legal effect, so that the law treats the situation as if the agreement or action had never occurred or existed.
A Court's declaration that Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026 is void ab initio will completely erase any legal rights, titles, or obligations that may have been transferred while the void agreement appeared active.
And unlike a "voidable" contract, an action that is void ab initio cannot be validated, ratified, or fixed by a referendum approving it, as was the case with the 27 June 2024 Water District No. 2 Referendum intended to put the veneer of legitimacy on the original false instrument, Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, approved by the Russell Regime on the evening of 25 April 2024.
With the 42 USC 1983 action, the Court will be requested to restore all parties to the exact position they were in before the invalid action took place, on the grounds that Resolution #24-2026, being clearly enacted in violation of the New York Constitution and US Constitution is void ab initio, meaning it never should have been enforced and any taxes collected need to be refunded.
On the evening of 23 April 2026, it will be alleged that the Garafolo Regime breached their fiduciary trust, as under NY Town Law, a special water district is essentially a trust.
While the Board exercises administrative control over the infrastructure and operations, it is the taxpayers of the district who are the ones footing the bill, which makes the taxpayers the equitable "owners" of the district’s assets, not the Town Board, as Philip and the Garafolo Regime seem to think, as they set themselves up in dictatorial capacity over the taxpayers of Poestenkill trapped in Water District No. 2 who have been literally stripped of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights in Water District No. 2 as if they were second-class citizens in some third-world, banana republic craphole.
So, on this Memorial Day, where we honor those Purple Heart recipients who gave their lives in defense of the freedoms we in Water District No. 2 do not enjoy today, we certainly have a lot to think about, such as who will Poestenkill field as their legal "DREAM TEAM" this time around, as defending Poestenkill from its citizens it is depriving of their Constitutional rights becomes a lucrative financial opportunity for the lawyer's community in the Greater Capital District.
And there for the moment the Gazette will rest.
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 25th 2026 Edition
"THE MEMORIAL DAY EDITION IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE, GIVING THEIR LIVES TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WE IN POESTENKILL'S WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 TODAY NO LONGER HAVE - APPROVAL OF RATE INCREASE FOR WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 TRIGGERS 42 USC 1983 ACTION FOR DEPRIVATION OF 14th AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS RIGHTS - POESTENKILL HONORED AS A PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT ABUSER COMMUNITY!"
In one of those many ironies associated with the upside-down, self-serving, self-dealing politics of Rensselaer County, according to the minutes of the 10 November 2022 Poestenkill Town Board meeting, then-Supervisor Hammond reported that Senator Daphne Jordan honored the Town with a Proclamation recognizing the Town of Poestenkill as a Purple Heart Community.
So the question on this Memorial Day, which used to be called Decoration Day when I was young here in Poestenkill, is what did Poestenkill ever do for a veteran with a Purple Heart that would earn it a commendation as a Purple heart Community?
According to the internet, a Purple Heart Community in New York is a municipality such as Poestenkill that has passed an official resolution to honor local military veterans who were wounded or killed in combat.
Supposedly, it is a non-partisan tribute designed to publicly show appreciation and support for the nation's oldest military medal, the Purple Heart.
And here is where things get real strange because the goal is to express gratitude to combat-wounded veterans, foster a supportive environment for military families, and promote patriotism.
As to Poestenkill expressing gratitude to combat-wounded veterans here in Poestenkill, we just had a vivid example of that with Poestenkill stripping twice-wounded combat veteran Paul Plante of his 1st Amendment right to petition the government with respect to the approval of the false instrument which created Poestenkill Water District No. 2 on 25 April 2024, and which false instrument was then laundered through the "system" on the evening of 23 April 2026, when the original false instrument became the basis for a new false instrument unilaterally and arbitrarily raising the taxation rate in Water District No. 2.
And as to judicial relief pursuant to 42 USC 1983 at this point of the constructive fraud associated with Water District No. 2, like the stink associated with some large, dead animal rotting in a roadside ditch, what we witnessed the Garafolo Regime officially record on the evening of 23 April 2026 was not a legitimate municipal action.
To the contrary, it was a false instrument designed to bypass the mandatory procedural safeguards of New York Town Law.
The Town Board on the evening of 23 April 2026, under the supervision, guidance and direction of Philip Danaher, Esquire, the sworn Officer of the Court who serves as the lawyer for the Garafolo Regime, unilaterally entered a resolution to increase the authorized expenditures for Water District No. 2, entirely stripping the district's property owners of their statutory due process rights, including their right to a permissive referendum.
Under New York law, a special improvement district is a distinct legal entity held in trust.
The taxpayers and property owners within the district are the equitable owners and primary beneficiaries of its assets; the Town Board are merely fiduciaries and administrators of those assets.
This fiduciary relationship means the Board cannot arbitrarily seize financial control, or unilaterally encumber the district with unvoted debt, without strictly adhering to statutory procedure.
By entering this document titled "In the Matter of a Proposed Increase... in the Maximum Amount Authorized to be Expended" into the official town records, the Board committed a procedural due process violation under the Fourteenth Amendment in that they have executed a legal maneuver that changes the maximum amount authorized to be expended without giving the equitable owners the notice and opportunity to be heard that are guaranteed by law.
Thus, pursuant to 42 USC 1983, the affected inhabitants are challenging the false instrument created on the evening of 23 April 2026 with regard to the increase in the taxation rate in Water District No., which is being described in Court papers as a "prodigious engine of fraud."
The 42 USC 1983 action is intended to demonstrate to a Court of Law that the governing body of Poestenkill on the evening of 23 April 2026, that being the Garafolo Regime, acting as fiduciaries for Water District No. 2, fundamentally breached their duties and deprived the residents of their constitutionally protected property interests without due process of law.
Thus, the 42 USC 1983 action asks the Court to review the official record and declare Poestenkill Resolution #245-2026 void ab initio, which is a Latin legal term meaning "to be treated as invalid from the outset."
In other words, as used herein, it describes an action, in this case the approval of Resolution #24-2026 on 23 April 2026, that never had any legal effect, so that the law treats the situation as if the agreement or action had never occurred or existed.
A Court's declaration that Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026 is void ab initio will completely erase any legal rights, titles, or obligations that may have been transferred while the void agreement appeared active.
And unlike a "voidable" contract, an action that is void ab initio cannot be validated, ratified, or fixed by a referendum approving it, as was the case with the 27 June 2024 Water District No. 2 Referendum intended to put the veneer of legitimacy on the original false instrument, Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, approved by the Russell Regime on the evening of 25 April 2024.
With the 42 USC 1983 action, the Court will be requested to restore all parties to the exact position they were in before the invalid action took place, on the grounds that Resolution #24-2026, being clearly enacted in violation of the New York Constitution and US Constitution is void ab initio, meaning it never should have been enforced and any taxes collected need to be refunded.
On the evening of 23 April 2026, it will be alleged that the Garafolo Regime breached their fiduciary trust, as under NY Town Law, a special water district is essentially a trust.
While the Board exercises administrative control over the infrastructure and operations, it is the taxpayers of the district who are the ones footing the bill, which makes the taxpayers the equitable "owners" of the district’s assets, not the Town Board, as Philip and the Garafolo Regime seem to think, as they set themselves up in dictatorial capacity over the taxpayers of Poestenkill trapped in Water District No. 2 who have been literally stripped of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights in Water District No. 2 as if they were second-class citizens in some third-world, banana republic craphole.
So, on this Memorial Day, where we honor those Purple Heart recipients who gave their lives in defense of the freedoms we in Water District No. 2 do not enjoy today, we certainly have a lot to think about, such as who will Poestenkill field as their legal "DREAM TEAM" this time around, as defending Poestenkill from its citizens it is depriving of their Constitutional rights becomes a lucrative financial opportunity for the lawyer's community in the Greater Capital District.
And there for the moment the Gazette will rest.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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May 27th 2026 Edition
"ON THE ABSOUTELY STUPID TRAFFIC PATTERNS IN POESTENKILL!"
This morning, at about 7:45 PM, I found myself passing the time of day sitting at the end of the raceway in Poestenkill known as Weatherwax Road, at its intersection with Rt. 66, watching a continuous stream of traffic heading west towards Troy in the one lane of Rt. 66, while at the same time, watching another continuous stream of traffic heading east in the other lane, so that entry onto Rt. 66 from Weatherwax Road was a distinct impossibility.
And while I was sitting there getting older and not doing much else other than getting older watching lines of cars streaming both ways, like we are in Los Angeles, doesn't someone come along heading eastbound, who wanted to turn left onto Weatherwax Road, which was another distinct impossibility.
So the inevitable happened, with a line of eastbound cars being blocked up on Rt. 66 going back towards Algonquin Beach Road, which is the prime set-up for a chain reaction collision.
Not being able to get out, I was forced to back up, and then go Liberty Lane to Rt. 351, and turn right on Rt. 351 to get to the Rt. 66 intersection, where there is a traffic light.
At the same time I was attempting to head east on Liberty Lane, a road I actually live on, a road that is supposed to be posted "no through traffic" as is the case with Algonquin Beach Road, I realized that I was taking my life in my hands, because to avoid the absolute mess on 66 in front of the Algonquin Middle School, where west-bound vehicles are trying to cut across the east-bound lane of 66 to get into Algonquin Middle School, a stream of cars off 351 use Liberty Lane around 7:30 AM and after use Liberty Lane westbound as a high-speed way to avoid the mess of 66.
The "no through traffic" signs do not exist on Liberty Lane because of the town board's indifference to the plight of those on the wrong side of Rt. 66 in Poestenkill.
Highway Superintendent D.J. Goyer has confirmed to me that the road is posted for "no through traffic" because it is narrow with lousy sight lines and is not meant for a heavy volume of traffic.
He also confirmed for me that the signs had been removed by order of the town board.
Coming to the Rt. 66/351 intersection from West Sand Lake at about 6:15 AM, one encounters a stream of traffic coming southbound on 351 wishing to turn left or eastbound on 66, which they can't do because of a stream of cars and gravel trucks heading northbound on 351, with the result that if one is heading northbound on 351 and wishes to turn left on Liberty Lane, good luck getting past that line of southbound traffic blocked up by the car at the head of the line at the stoplight trying to turn left on 66 across on-coming traffic on 351.
Coming home in the evening around 6:15 PM down Rt. 43 westbound in neighboring Sand Lake, whose traffic patterns are at least as screwed up as those in Poestenkill, if not more so, because they work harder at botching up traffic patterns than does Poestenkill, which town is always behind Sand Lake when it comes to botch-jobs and simply slip-shod, idiotic planning, which Poestenkill is quite incompetent at, one comes to the intersection of 43, where invariably, some poor soul in the eastbound lane will be attempting to enter Rt. 351 northbound by cutting across oncoming westbound traffic on Rt. 43, which backs up traffic in that lane towards West Sand Lake.
And at the same time that mess is going on, there is a line of cars sitting at the end of 351, and invariably, the car in front will want to turn left off 351 onto 43 eastbound, which isn't happening because that car has to cross the on-coming west-bound traffic on 43 so there is a line of cars stuck on the end of 351.
Continuing northbound on 351, one comes to the intersection with 66, where across 66, one sees a line of cars heading southbound on 351 who aren't moving because the first car in line wants to turn left off of 351 onto 66 heading eastbound which they can't do, because of the line of traffic on 351 heading north-bound.
And when one comes to Liberty Lane to turn left, one is confronted with the line of cars southbound on 351 who aren't moving because of one car at the head of the line trying to turn left against on-coming traffic northbound on 351.
And then we hear rocket scientists like Dominic Jacangelo on 23 April 2026 talking about major development on 66 between Algonquin Beach Road and Snyder's Corners Road as a result of the approval of Water District No. 2.
How absolutely idiotic that is, is beyond words to describe.
Where does Dominic is his lack of wisdom and foresight think those cars are going to go?
Oh, right, Dominic doesn't think, so he doesn't know and really doesn't care.
Which is why we have the mess today.
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"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
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May 27th 2026 Edition
"ON THE ABSOUTELY STUPID TRAFFIC PATTERNS IN POESTENKILL!"
This morning, at about 7:45 PM, I found myself passing the time of day sitting at the end of the raceway in Poestenkill known as Weatherwax Road, at its intersection with Rt. 66, watching a continuous stream of traffic heading west towards Troy in the one lane of Rt. 66, while at the same time, watching another continuous stream of traffic heading east in the other lane, so that entry onto Rt. 66 from Weatherwax Road was a distinct impossibility.
And while I was sitting there getting older and not doing much else other than getting older watching lines of cars streaming both ways, like we are in Los Angeles, doesn't someone come along heading eastbound, who wanted to turn left onto Weatherwax Road, which was another distinct impossibility.
So the inevitable happened, with a line of eastbound cars being blocked up on Rt. 66 going back towards Algonquin Beach Road, which is the prime set-up for a chain reaction collision.
Not being able to get out, I was forced to back up, and then go Liberty Lane to Rt. 351, and turn right on Rt. 351 to get to the Rt. 66 intersection, where there is a traffic light.
At the same time I was attempting to head east on Liberty Lane, a road I actually live on, a road that is supposed to be posted "no through traffic" as is the case with Algonquin Beach Road, I realized that I was taking my life in my hands, because to avoid the absolute mess on 66 in front of the Algonquin Middle School, where west-bound vehicles are trying to cut across the east-bound lane of 66 to get into Algonquin Middle School, a stream of cars off 351 use Liberty Lane around 7:30 AM and after use Liberty Lane westbound as a high-speed way to avoid the mess of 66.
The "no through traffic" signs do not exist on Liberty Lane because of the town board's indifference to the plight of those on the wrong side of Rt. 66 in Poestenkill.
Highway Superintendent D.J. Goyer has confirmed to me that the road is posted for "no through traffic" because it is narrow with lousy sight lines and is not meant for a heavy volume of traffic.
He also confirmed for me that the signs had been removed by order of the town board.
Coming to the Rt. 66/351 intersection from West Sand Lake at about 6:15 AM, one encounters a stream of traffic coming southbound on 351 wishing to turn left or eastbound on 66, which they can't do because of a stream of cars and gravel trucks heading northbound on 351, with the result that if one is heading northbound on 351 and wishes to turn left on Liberty Lane, good luck getting past that line of southbound traffic blocked up by the car at the head of the line at the stoplight trying to turn left on 66 across on-coming traffic on 351.
Coming home in the evening around 6:15 PM down Rt. 43 westbound in neighboring Sand Lake, whose traffic patterns are at least as screwed up as those in Poestenkill, if not more so, because they work harder at botching up traffic patterns than does Poestenkill, which town is always behind Sand Lake when it comes to botch-jobs and simply slip-shod, idiotic planning, which Poestenkill is quite incompetent at, one comes to the intersection of 43, where invariably, some poor soul in the eastbound lane will be attempting to enter Rt. 351 northbound by cutting across oncoming westbound traffic on Rt. 43, which backs up traffic in that lane towards West Sand Lake.
And at the same time that mess is going on, there is a line of cars sitting at the end of 351, and invariably, the car in front will want to turn left off 351 onto 43 eastbound, which isn't happening because that car has to cross the on-coming west-bound traffic on 43 so there is a line of cars stuck on the end of 351.
Continuing northbound on 351, one comes to the intersection with 66, where across 66, one sees a line of cars heading southbound on 351 who aren't moving because the first car in line wants to turn left off of 351 onto 66 heading eastbound which they can't do, because of the line of traffic on 351 heading north-bound.
And when one comes to Liberty Lane to turn left, one is confronted with the line of cars southbound on 351 who aren't moving because of one car at the head of the line trying to turn left against on-coming traffic northbound on 351.
And then we hear rocket scientists like Dominic Jacangelo on 23 April 2026 talking about major development on 66 between Algonquin Beach Road and Snyder's Corners Road as a result of the approval of Water District No. 2.
How absolutely idiotic that is, is beyond words to describe.
Where does Dominic is his lack of wisdom and foresight think those cars are going to go?
Oh, right, Dominic doesn't think, so he doesn't know and really doesn't care.
Which is why we have the mess today.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 28th 2026 Edition
"WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE - ENGINEER'S REPORT OF INVESTIGATION SAID TO BE DEVASTATING EVIDENCE OF PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT BY FRANK BURZESI AND RONALD JOSEPH LABERGE AS MICHELLE'S GOBSMACKINGLY PUCKISH SCHEME TO BILK THE ELDERLY IN POESTENKILL AND DEPRIVE THEM OF THEIR PROPERTY TO BENEFIT INVESTORS AND DEVELOPERS CRUMBLES INTO DUST ALONG WITH WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 WHICH NEVER HAD A LAWFUL EXISTENCE REGARDLESS OF THAT FRAUDULENT REFERENDUM - RESEARCHERS CALL IT A TAXPAYER RIP-OFF SCAM THAT THE FAMOUS GRIFTER 'DEVIL BILL' ROCKEFELLER WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE THAN PROUD TO CALL HIS OWN!"
Yes, people, here in New York, where Poestenkill is located as a mere political subdivision, not a separate sovereign state as the RULERS of Poestenkill would have it be, there actually is a legal term for the outcome of a referendum that attempts to validate a document submitted in violation of Penal Law 175.35.
New York Penal Law 175.35 defines the felony offense of Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree, which is a Class E felony.
New York Penal Law 175.35 makes it a crime to present a false written document to a government agency with the intent to defraud.
Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 is on its face a false instrument made and filed for no other purpose than to defraud the taxpayers of Poestenkill, the taxpayers of Rensselaer County, the taxpayers of New York state and the taxpayers of America as Poestenkill the Brave and Free sets very lofty goals for itself.
Willy Sutton robbed banks because that is where the money was.
Our fraudsters rob every level of government, because the money there is far easier to get than robbing banks and the scores, as we have clearly seen from the take to date with the financial figures for Water District No. 2 are really quite substantial, up in the millions for nothing more than the promise on a cocktail napkin to build the equivalent of a functioning bridge to the moon, some day when the stars are in the proper alignment, and the sheer beauty of the scheme is that nobody has to account for that money and where it went after the fact.
And as a result of Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 being a false instrument on its face, the 88 to 18 Referendum vote on 27 June 2024 to approve the false instrument and the underlying fraud that caused it to happen is what is known among the lawyer set like Phil Danaher as void ab initio, meaning it is considered to have no legal effect from the beginning or fundamentally ultra vires as in acting beyond the scope of legal power.
Now, follow this - because Penal Law 175.35 criminalizes the act of knowingly submitting or recording a false written instrument with the intent to defraud, it constitutes a Class E felony.
Thus, the popular vote or referendum by the 88 people in Poestenkill on 27 June 2024 cannot legally "cure" or ratify the inherently fraudulent and/or illegal filing of Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 on 25 April 2024.
For the record, a referendum is meant to pass lawful legislation or local measures.
Thus an instrument like Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2004 that violates a felony statute like Penal Law 175.35 cannot be validated by a public vote on 27 June 2024 by the 88 people in the Majority Pro-Corruption faction in Poestenkill, and let's face it, people, we are all neighbors, so we all know who they are, because the illegality of the underlying document, Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2004 nullifies the result.
Thus, the outcome of the 27 June 2024 Referendum on Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 is treated as a legal nullity, and since the Referendum passed 88 to 18, the Court is being prayed to invalidate it entirely because the "instrument" upon which the vote was based is legally invalid and a product of criminal fraud.
Talk about tiny backwards Poestenkill leaping into national prominence as a Fraudster par Excellence!
And here we come to the red meat - the passage of the Referendum on 27 June 2024 does absolutely nothing to protect the perpetrators.
The crime of Offering a False Instrument for Filing is already complete the moment the false document is presented to a public office with the belief that it will be recorded.
As to the term "gobsmackingly puckish" as applied to Michelle's attempt to further rip-off the taxpayers of Poestenkill with her Resolution #24-2026 scam on 23 April 2026 with the usual SHILLS in the audience, it describes an attitude, joke, or personality that is playfully mischievous, roguish, or impish to an astonishing, mind-boggling degree, such as Michelle Garafolo coming to Poestenkill from Florida thinking and believing she could actually get away with ripping off vulnerable senior citizens in Poestenkill with impunity.
What a crack-pot that idea was.
As to the term "gobsmackingly puckish" when applied to Michelle's attempt to further rip-off the taxpayers of Poestenkill with her Resolution #24-2026 scam on 23 April 2026, it captures a sense of impish, fun-loving trouble-making that is so extreme, dramatic, or unexpected it leaves onlookers stunned.
Yes, it did.
And now, the pay-back comes, so in the end, the joke may well be on Michelle, instead.
And if there is any disappointment as to how the development of the legal case is going, it is because Dominic Jacangelo and Greg Pattenaude cannot be included as co-conspirators and defendants.
Ah, well, there is always tomarrow.
Stay tuned.
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 28th 2026 Edition
"WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE - ENGINEER'S REPORT OF INVESTIGATION SAID TO BE DEVASTATING EVIDENCE OF PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT BY FRANK BURZESI AND RONALD JOSEPH LABERGE AS MICHELLE'S GOBSMACKINGLY PUCKISH SCHEME TO BILK THE ELDERLY IN POESTENKILL AND DEPRIVE THEM OF THEIR PROPERTY TO BENEFIT INVESTORS AND DEVELOPERS CRUMBLES INTO DUST ALONG WITH WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 WHICH NEVER HAD A LAWFUL EXISTENCE REGARDLESS OF THAT FRAUDULENT REFERENDUM - RESEARCHERS CALL IT A TAXPAYER RIP-OFF SCAM THAT THE FAMOUS GRIFTER 'DEVIL BILL' ROCKEFELLER WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE THAN PROUD TO CALL HIS OWN!"
Yes, people, here in New York, where Poestenkill is located as a mere political subdivision, not a separate sovereign state as the RULERS of Poestenkill would have it be, there actually is a legal term for the outcome of a referendum that attempts to validate a document submitted in violation of Penal Law 175.35.
New York Penal Law 175.35 defines the felony offense of Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree, which is a Class E felony.
New York Penal Law 175.35 makes it a crime to present a false written document to a government agency with the intent to defraud.
Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 is on its face a false instrument made and filed for no other purpose than to defraud the taxpayers of Poestenkill, the taxpayers of Rensselaer County, the taxpayers of New York state and the taxpayers of America as Poestenkill the Brave and Free sets very lofty goals for itself.
Willy Sutton robbed banks because that is where the money was.
Our fraudsters rob every level of government, because the money there is far easier to get than robbing banks and the scores, as we have clearly seen from the take to date with the financial figures for Water District No. 2 are really quite substantial, up in the millions for nothing more than the promise on a cocktail napkin to build the equivalent of a functioning bridge to the moon, some day when the stars are in the proper alignment, and the sheer beauty of the scheme is that nobody has to account for that money and where it went after the fact.
And as a result of Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 being a false instrument on its face, the 88 to 18 Referendum vote on 27 June 2024 to approve the false instrument and the underlying fraud that caused it to happen is what is known among the lawyer set like Phil Danaher as void ab initio, meaning it is considered to have no legal effect from the beginning or fundamentally ultra vires as in acting beyond the scope of legal power.
Now, follow this - because Penal Law 175.35 criminalizes the act of knowingly submitting or recording a false written instrument with the intent to defraud, it constitutes a Class E felony.
Thus, the popular vote or referendum by the 88 people in Poestenkill on 27 June 2024 cannot legally "cure" or ratify the inherently fraudulent and/or illegal filing of Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 on 25 April 2024.
For the record, a referendum is meant to pass lawful legislation or local measures.
Thus an instrument like Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2004 that violates a felony statute like Penal Law 175.35 cannot be validated by a public vote on 27 June 2024 by the 88 people in the Majority Pro-Corruption faction in Poestenkill, and let's face it, people, we are all neighbors, so we all know who they are, because the illegality of the underlying document, Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2004 nullifies the result.
Thus, the outcome of the 27 June 2024 Referendum on Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 is treated as a legal nullity, and since the Referendum passed 88 to 18, the Court is being prayed to invalidate it entirely because the "instrument" upon which the vote was based is legally invalid and a product of criminal fraud.
Talk about tiny backwards Poestenkill leaping into national prominence as a Fraudster par Excellence!
And here we come to the red meat - the passage of the Referendum on 27 June 2024 does absolutely nothing to protect the perpetrators.
The crime of Offering a False Instrument for Filing is already complete the moment the false document is presented to a public office with the belief that it will be recorded.
As to the term "gobsmackingly puckish" as applied to Michelle's attempt to further rip-off the taxpayers of Poestenkill with her Resolution #24-2026 scam on 23 April 2026 with the usual SHILLS in the audience, it describes an attitude, joke, or personality that is playfully mischievous, roguish, or impish to an astonishing, mind-boggling degree, such as Michelle Garafolo coming to Poestenkill from Florida thinking and believing she could actually get away with ripping off vulnerable senior citizens in Poestenkill with impunity.
What a crack-pot that idea was.
As to the term "gobsmackingly puckish" when applied to Michelle's attempt to further rip-off the taxpayers of Poestenkill with her Resolution #24-2026 scam on 23 April 2026, it captures a sense of impish, fun-loving trouble-making that is so extreme, dramatic, or unexpected it leaves onlookers stunned.
Yes, it did.
And now, the pay-back comes, so in the end, the joke may well be on Michelle, instead.
And if there is any disappointment as to how the development of the legal case is going, it is because Dominic Jacangelo and Greg Pattenaude cannot be included as co-conspirators and defendants.
Ah, well, there is always tomarrow.
Stay tuned.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 30th 2026 Edition
"WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE - THE WAVE OF MICHELLE'S CORRUPT WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 SCAM HAS CRASHED AND PARTED ON THE ROCK OF THE DEFIANCE OF THOSE FEW ON LIBERTY LANE IN POESTENKILL WHO PREFER THE LIBERTY THEY ENJOYED AS AMERICAN CITIZENS IN POESTENKILL BEFORE MICHELLE CAME HERE FROM FLORIDA WITH HER SCHEME TO BILK THE ELDERLY ON LIBERTY LANE TO ECONOMIC SLAVERY TO MICHELLE AND HER ENGINEER RONALD JOSEPH LABERGE NYSPE 065464 AND ARE WILLING TO STAND UP TO MICHELLE AND FIGHT FOR IT - IN POESTENKILL, MICHELLE, WHICH ISN'T FLORIDA, WHEN YOU THINK YOU CAN COME HERE WITH YOUR SCAM TO BILK THE ELDERLY IN THIS TOWN 'LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY,' YOU WILL FIND THIS BABY FIGHTS BACK, AND HARD!"
It is an axiom among the members of the legal trade here in Rensselaer County that it is beyond cavil that there is no possible way for a non-lawyer citizen who has been deprived of their Fourteenth Amendment due process rights in a scam like the Poestenkill Water District No. 2 SCAM, which began back on 16 December 2021, when Poestenkill councilman Eric Wohlleber and Poestenkill councilman Dave Hass hatched an almost bullet-proof scheme to use the professional engineer's license of Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464 in a Confidence Scam to reap a financial windfall from the town taxpayers, the Rensselaer County taxpayers, the taxpayers of the Averill Park School District, the taxpayers of New York state and the taxpayers of the United States of America, and lucrative the scheme has been to date, to be able to do a thing about it because of the almost impenetrable sovereign immunity of the municipal corporation, which is considered a "person" and the "state actor" in a challenge pursuant to 42 USC 1983.
And in fact, because of that sovereign immunity, which protects Poestenkill itself from being brought before a court of law where the 14th Amendment rights Poestenkill denies its own citizens in Poestenkill exists big-time for PERPS like Poestenkill accused of being a criminal town, it is also an axiom among the members of the legal trade here in Rensselaer County that it is beyond cavil that the only possible way for a non-lawyer citizen who has been deprived of their Fourteenth Amendment due process rights in a scam like the Poestenkill Water District No. 2 SCAM to prevail against the sovereign immunity of Poestenkill is for the PERP, Poestenkill in this case, to have for its elected members of its governing town board a collection of arrogant idiots, dolts, imbeciles, morons and others of that ilk being advised by an arrogant, stupid lawyer, because absent that necessary combination of arrogance and ignorance which serves to hand the plaintiff a freebie SLAM-DUNK, it can't be done.
Has that combination here in Poestenkill been reached with Michelle's slick scam public hearing on 23 April 2026 to have Dominic Jacangelo, Greg Pattenaude and Susan Gibbons from Algonquin Estates each put their seal of approval on an increase the tax levy or lien on all of the encumbered parcels of land now included in Water District No. 2 for Ron Laberge to feed off of as he pleases by simply handing Michelle another Resolution for her to rubber-stamp?
Stay tuned.
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"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
May 30th 2026 Edition
"WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE - THE WAVE OF MICHELLE'S CORRUPT WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 SCAM HAS CRASHED AND PARTED ON THE ROCK OF THE DEFIANCE OF THOSE FEW ON LIBERTY LANE IN POESTENKILL WHO PREFER THE LIBERTY THEY ENJOYED AS AMERICAN CITIZENS IN POESTENKILL BEFORE MICHELLE CAME HERE FROM FLORIDA WITH HER SCHEME TO BILK THE ELDERLY ON LIBERTY LANE TO ECONOMIC SLAVERY TO MICHELLE AND HER ENGINEER RONALD JOSEPH LABERGE NYSPE 065464 AND ARE WILLING TO STAND UP TO MICHELLE AND FIGHT FOR IT - IN POESTENKILL, MICHELLE, WHICH ISN'T FLORIDA, WHEN YOU THINK YOU CAN COME HERE WITH YOUR SCAM TO BILK THE ELDERLY IN THIS TOWN 'LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY,' YOU WILL FIND THIS BABY FIGHTS BACK, AND HARD!"
It is an axiom among the members of the legal trade here in Rensselaer County that it is beyond cavil that there is no possible way for a non-lawyer citizen who has been deprived of their Fourteenth Amendment due process rights in a scam like the Poestenkill Water District No. 2 SCAM, which began back on 16 December 2021, when Poestenkill councilman Eric Wohlleber and Poestenkill councilman Dave Hass hatched an almost bullet-proof scheme to use the professional engineer's license of Ronald Joseph Laberge, NYSPE 065464 in a Confidence Scam to reap a financial windfall from the town taxpayers, the Rensselaer County taxpayers, the taxpayers of the Averill Park School District, the taxpayers of New York state and the taxpayers of the United States of America, and lucrative the scheme has been to date, to be able to do a thing about it because of the almost impenetrable sovereign immunity of the municipal corporation, which is considered a "person" and the "state actor" in a challenge pursuant to 42 USC 1983.
And in fact, because of that sovereign immunity, which protects Poestenkill itself from being brought before a court of law where the 14th Amendment rights Poestenkill denies its own citizens in Poestenkill exists big-time for PERPS like Poestenkill accused of being a criminal town, it is also an axiom among the members of the legal trade here in Rensselaer County that it is beyond cavil that the only possible way for a non-lawyer citizen who has been deprived of their Fourteenth Amendment due process rights in a scam like the Poestenkill Water District No. 2 SCAM to prevail against the sovereign immunity of Poestenkill is for the PERP, Poestenkill in this case, to have for its elected members of its governing town board a collection of arrogant idiots, dolts, imbeciles, morons and others of that ilk being advised by an arrogant, stupid lawyer, because absent that necessary combination of arrogance and ignorance which serves to hand the plaintiff a freebie SLAM-DUNK, it can't be done.
Has that combination here in Poestenkill been reached with Michelle's slick scam public hearing on 23 April 2026 to have Dominic Jacangelo, Greg Pattenaude and Susan Gibbons from Algonquin Estates each put their seal of approval on an increase the tax levy or lien on all of the encumbered parcels of land now included in Water District No. 2 for Ron Laberge to feed off of as he pleases by simply handing Michelle another Resolution for her to rubber-stamp?
Stay tuned.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
June 8th 2026 Edition
"WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE - A SWIM THROUGH THE WORLD'S LONGEST CLOGGED SEWER - THE NAMES THAT WILL GO DOWN IN INFAMY - WE SHALL NOT SOON FORGET!"
As an experienced and tenacious litigator like our very own Philip Danaher, Esquire at Law, would tell you, assuming you could get Phil to stop by your house after hours for some pizza and a brewsky or two, and to let his hair down to talk shop to you like the lawyers do with each other when they are in the safe company of other lawyers who know the game and aren't squeamish about how it is played, everything related to a civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 USC 1983 for intentional deprivation of 14th Amendment procedural and substantive due process of law depends on the administrative record related to the justiciable controversy at issue in the civil rights action.
As Phil. said to be affectionately known by his fellow lawyers as "Bulldog" Danaher for his aggressive style of pursuing his causes, and by Michelle as her "dog," would tell you, for there to be a justiciable controversy that would trigger a successful civil rights action for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Town Board of Poestenkill leading to annulment of the false instrument titled Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 made and filed on the evening of 25 April 2024 by Tom Russell, Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi and June Butler creating Poestenkill Water District No 2 and thereby encumbering each and every parcel within the bounds of Water District No. 2, including some vacant parcels ripe for speculation, with a tax lien of $676.00 for thirty (30) years, and annulment of the false instrument titled Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026 made and filed by Michelle Garafolo, Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi, David Hass and Rodney Rescott on the evening of 23 April 2026, which false instrument raised the tax liens on all the encumbered parcels within the bounds of Water District No. 2 from $676.00 to $953.00, an increase of 40.68% thanks to the inflation caused by Trump's War against Iran, that justiciable controversy has got to be easily made out in the flow of the administrative record from the moment of inception of the scheme to defraud the taxpayers, which in this case began in 2021, through the various stages of the constructive fraud, known as constructive fraud because each subsequent step relies on the prior steps as foundations, which steps in this case first involved the regime of Keith Hammond from 2021 through to the end of 2023, when Keith got sacked by his planning board chairman Tom Russell, and Frank Buurzesi came on board to replace Harold Van Slyke, then the Tom Russell regime from January of 2024 through to December of 2025, when Tom Russell in turn got sacked by Michelle Garafolo and Rodney Rescott replaced June Butler.
Hence, in this case, where a very slick and very professional taxpayer scam was implemented in 2021 and made its first dividend for the fraudsters in April of 2024, the job of the forensic analysts preparing the report of the record that has to serve and support a federal civil rights action to put a decisive end to this taxpayer fraud scheme was very tedious, as before any analysis could occur, the record had to first be assembled so that every word said and every action taken or not taken is before the forensic analysts.
In this case, that process has been going on since 24 April 2026 and is just now nearing final completion.
With respect to making out the justiciable controversy with respect to a 42 USC 1983 action against Poestenkill itself as the perp, what that administrative record for Poestenkill Water District No. 2 now reveals is that in 2021, the Town of Poestenkill, a “State Actor” pursuant to 42 USC § 1983 where Intentional Deprivation of 14th Amendment Procedural Due Process of Law is alleged and proven by the facts in the administrative record, hatched a scheme by and through the Elected members of its Town Board under color of Article 12-a of the New York Town Law to reap a financial windfall by peddling a fictitious “Poestenkill Water District No. 2” to Rensselaer County, New York State and Federal Government Officials in exchange for $2,363,367.00 in Federal funding; $2,314,200.00 in New York state funding; a $600,000.00 contribution from Rensselaer County; and $272,433.00 from the affected taxpayers of the Town of Poestenkill through the issuance of serial bonds of the Town maturing in annual installments over a period of thirty (30) years, and as a result, the properties in the Town of Poestenkill within the bounds of Water District No. 2 are now unlawfully encumbered with a tax lien of $953.00 with no procedural or substantive due process of law ever afforded between December of 2021 and 23 April 2026 at every step or subsequent stage of what was a well-orchestrated and well-executed constructive fraud by the Town Board of Poestenkill acting as Fiduciaries for the taxpayers of Poestenkill between 16 December 2021 and 23 April 2026.
Stay tuned, this is a breaking story, don't change that dial, more is yet to come!
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
June 8th 2026 Edition
"WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE - A SWIM THROUGH THE WORLD'S LONGEST CLOGGED SEWER - THE NAMES THAT WILL GO DOWN IN INFAMY - WE SHALL NOT SOON FORGET!"
As an experienced and tenacious litigator like our very own Philip Danaher, Esquire at Law, would tell you, assuming you could get Phil to stop by your house after hours for some pizza and a brewsky or two, and to let his hair down to talk shop to you like the lawyers do with each other when they are in the safe company of other lawyers who know the game and aren't squeamish about how it is played, everything related to a civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 USC 1983 for intentional deprivation of 14th Amendment procedural and substantive due process of law depends on the administrative record related to the justiciable controversy at issue in the civil rights action.
As Phil. said to be affectionately known by his fellow lawyers as "Bulldog" Danaher for his aggressive style of pursuing his causes, and by Michelle as her "dog," would tell you, for there to be a justiciable controversy that would trigger a successful civil rights action for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Town Board of Poestenkill leading to annulment of the false instrument titled Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 made and filed on the evening of 25 April 2024 by Tom Russell, Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi and June Butler creating Poestenkill Water District No 2 and thereby encumbering each and every parcel within the bounds of Water District No. 2, including some vacant parcels ripe for speculation, with a tax lien of $676.00 for thirty (30) years, and annulment of the false instrument titled Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026 made and filed by Michelle Garafolo, Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi, David Hass and Rodney Rescott on the evening of 23 April 2026, which false instrument raised the tax liens on all the encumbered parcels within the bounds of Water District No. 2 from $676.00 to $953.00, an increase of 40.68% thanks to the inflation caused by Trump's War against Iran, that justiciable controversy has got to be easily made out in the flow of the administrative record from the moment of inception of the scheme to defraud the taxpayers, which in this case began in 2021, through the various stages of the constructive fraud, known as constructive fraud because each subsequent step relies on the prior steps as foundations, which steps in this case first involved the regime of Keith Hammond from 2021 through to the end of 2023, when Keith got sacked by his planning board chairman Tom Russell, and Frank Buurzesi came on board to replace Harold Van Slyke, then the Tom Russell regime from January of 2024 through to December of 2025, when Tom Russell in turn got sacked by Michelle Garafolo and Rodney Rescott replaced June Butler.
Hence, in this case, where a very slick and very professional taxpayer scam was implemented in 2021 and made its first dividend for the fraudsters in April of 2024, the job of the forensic analysts preparing the report of the record that has to serve and support a federal civil rights action to put a decisive end to this taxpayer fraud scheme was very tedious, as before any analysis could occur, the record had to first be assembled so that every word said and every action taken or not taken is before the forensic analysts.
In this case, that process has been going on since 24 April 2026 and is just now nearing final completion.
With respect to making out the justiciable controversy with respect to a 42 USC 1983 action against Poestenkill itself as the perp, what that administrative record for Poestenkill Water District No. 2 now reveals is that in 2021, the Town of Poestenkill, a “State Actor” pursuant to 42 USC § 1983 where Intentional Deprivation of 14th Amendment Procedural Due Process of Law is alleged and proven by the facts in the administrative record, hatched a scheme by and through the Elected members of its Town Board under color of Article 12-a of the New York Town Law to reap a financial windfall by peddling a fictitious “Poestenkill Water District No. 2” to Rensselaer County, New York State and Federal Government Officials in exchange for $2,363,367.00 in Federal funding; $2,314,200.00 in New York state funding; a $600,000.00 contribution from Rensselaer County; and $272,433.00 from the affected taxpayers of the Town of Poestenkill through the issuance of serial bonds of the Town maturing in annual installments over a period of thirty (30) years, and as a result, the properties in the Town of Poestenkill within the bounds of Water District No. 2 are now unlawfully encumbered with a tax lien of $953.00 with no procedural or substantive due process of law ever afforded between December of 2021 and 23 April 2026 at every step or subsequent stage of what was a well-orchestrated and well-executed constructive fraud by the Town Board of Poestenkill acting as Fiduciaries for the taxpayers of Poestenkill between 16 December 2021 and 23 April 2026.
Stay tuned, this is a breaking story, don't change that dial, more is yet to come!
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
June 9th 2026 Edition
"WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE - SOME EARLY MORNING THOUGHTS ON SECURITIES FRAUD IN WHAT IS NOW A VERY BADLY-DIVIDED CORRUPT SMALL TOWN!"
Yes, people, federal securities fraud as in violation of federal antifraud provisions such as Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 10b-5.
What did anyone think was happening on the evening of 23 April 2026 at Michelle's Water District No. 2 FARCE?
You, know, the FARCE on the evening of 23 April 2026 where Eric Wohlleber and Frank Buzesi were playing coy with their SHILLS in the audience, making out like maybe they wouldn't really jack up the tax liens on every encumbered parcel in Water District No. 2 from $676.00 to $953.00, an increase of 40.68% thanks to the inflation caused by Trump's tariffs, when they had made that determination to do so way back on 3 Aprill 2024!
Doesn't anyone remember our Phil on that evening talking about a bond counsel, and how the false instrument Michelle and Eric and Frank and David and Rodney were making and filing that evening was styled by the bond counsel, a fancy name for what is otherwise just another garden-variety lawyer, a dime a dozen, as a Public Interest Order to scam the buyers of Municipal Bonds on the open market?
It is our belief that issuing municipal bonds based on a known fraudulent "Public Interest Order" titled Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026, made and filed on 23 April 2026 by Michelle Garafolo, Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi, David Hass and Rodney Rescott under color of New York Town Law § 209 creates major civil and criminal liability for the town board, the bond counsel, and the municipality itself, and it is our goal to get that before a grand jury pursuant to § 6 of Article I of the New York State Constitution wherein is stated that the power of grand juries to inquire into the wilful misconduct in office of public officers, and to find indictments or to direct the filing of informations in connection with such inquiries, shall never be suspended or impaired by law, and of equal importance, no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
And that is where matters now stand!
We shall not forget!
And we will not remain silent.
Poestenkill has chosen to be a thief and rob its citizens!
And game is now on!
Stay tuned!
Dedicated to egalitarianism over pettifoggery and snobbery, and the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
"It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!"
"The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!"
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!"
"The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty."
June 9th 2026 Edition
"WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 FRAUD INVESTIGATION UPDATE - SOME EARLY MORNING THOUGHTS ON SECURITIES FRAUD IN WHAT IS NOW A VERY BADLY-DIVIDED CORRUPT SMALL TOWN!"
Yes, people, federal securities fraud as in violation of federal antifraud provisions such as Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 10b-5.
What did anyone think was happening on the evening of 23 April 2026 at Michelle's Water District No. 2 FARCE?
You, know, the FARCE on the evening of 23 April 2026 where Eric Wohlleber and Frank Buzesi were playing coy with their SHILLS in the audience, making out like maybe they wouldn't really jack up the tax liens on every encumbered parcel in Water District No. 2 from $676.00 to $953.00, an increase of 40.68% thanks to the inflation caused by Trump's tariffs, when they had made that determination to do so way back on 3 Aprill 2024!
Doesn't anyone remember our Phil on that evening talking about a bond counsel, and how the false instrument Michelle and Eric and Frank and David and Rodney were making and filing that evening was styled by the bond counsel, a fancy name for what is otherwise just another garden-variety lawyer, a dime a dozen, as a Public Interest Order to scam the buyers of Municipal Bonds on the open market?
It is our belief that issuing municipal bonds based on a known fraudulent "Public Interest Order" titled Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026, made and filed on 23 April 2026 by Michelle Garafolo, Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi, David Hass and Rodney Rescott under color of New York Town Law § 209 creates major civil and criminal liability for the town board, the bond counsel, and the municipality itself, and it is our goal to get that before a grand jury pursuant to § 6 of Article I of the New York State Constitution wherein is stated that the power of grand juries to inquire into the wilful misconduct in office of public officers, and to find indictments or to direct the filing of informations in connection with such inquiries, shall never be suspended or impaired by law, and of equal importance, no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
And that is where matters now stand!
We shall not forget!
And we will not remain silent.
Poestenkill has chosen to be a thief and rob its citizens!
And game is now on!
Stay tuned!