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$2.4M Scheme: Ex-Town Employee, Business Owner In Region Admit To Illegal Dumping Plot $2.4M Scheme: Ex-Town Employee, Business Owner In Region Admit To Illegal Dumping Plot
$2.4M Scheme: Ex-Town Employee, Business Owner In Region Admit To Illegal Dumping Plot A former Northern Westchester town employee has admitted to allowing a business owner to illegally dump unauthorized material at an environmentally fragile facility in exchange for cash bribes, federal officials announced.  Verplanck resident Robert Dyckman, age 52, and Cortlandt Manor resident Glenn Griffin, age 55, both pleaded guilty to charges related to the $2.4 million scheme, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Monday, Aug. 26.  According to federal officials, Dyckman, the former Assistant General Foreman for the Town o…

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by Ben Crnic
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Local Man Charged In Hudson Valley Cemetery Boat Dumping Incident Local Man Charged In Hudson Valley Cemetery Boat Dumping Incident
Local Man Charged In Hudson Valley Cemetery Boat Dumping Incident A man has been charged after a boat was allegedly illegally dumped near a cemetery in the Hudson Valley. The 19-foot boat was dumped in Putnam County on Friday, Sept. 2 in the area of the Union Valley Cemetery in Carmel. According to Lt. Michael Bodo of the Carmel Police, responding officers found a Sunbird Corsair dumped on cemetery property. After inspecting the vessel, officers found that all identifiable markings had been intentionally removed from the boat, Bodo said. Shortly thereafter, the Carmel Police Marine Unit working in conjunction with Carmel Police detectives …

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by Kathy Reakes