08/31/2026
🚨 MORONI'S LAWYER WANTS MY PAGE SCRUBBED. READ WHAT THEY TRIED TO DELETE.
Clarkstown — eleven days ago, I posted the Town's own numbers, filed a sworn ethics complaint, and asked the Rockland County District Attorney to open an investigation. Six days later, Deputy Supervisor Al Moroni's lawyer sent me the letter attached below: delete everything within 24 hours, and publish a "retraction."
Here is my answer, in writing, attached. And here it is for every resident of this town:
NOTHING GETS DELETED. NOTHING GETS RETRACTED. I stand behind every word.
Because none of what follows is my claim. It is what the Rockland County Business Journal has reported — from the contractor's own invoices and Mr. Moroni's own text message — and what the Town's own Accounts Payable records document:
• In 2024, a contractor replaced the A/C at the Deputy Supervisor's home for roughly $5,600 (materials only, the labor free) on a job that typically runs $12,000 to $13,000, per the invoices the contractor shared with the Journal. The contractor believed the discounted work "could help him score a contract with the town."
• Last week, the Journal published Moroni's own text message about that job, in his own words: "gave me $5,000, versus $8,500!!" — with a thank-you by name to two town officials, "kudos to you, Mike and Garabet," and "a dinner on me" for the three of them.
• The following year, that contractor was awarded a $99,000 town contract, renewed in 2026 for four years. And between August 2024 and July 2026, the Town paid his company $1,022,802.07 across 139 invoices (information straight from the Town's own Accounts Payable records).
If that is what it appears to be, it may be corruption. Whether it is or isn't is not for his lawyer to decide, and not for me to decide. It is for investigators with subpoena power, which is exactly why the ethics complaint and the DA request were filed, and exactly why they stay filed.
⚠️ And to Mr. Moroni: if you want to sue me over the Town's own records — bring it. A LAWSUIT DOESN'T SILENCE ME; it hands me subpoena power of my own. I will DEPOSE you, under oath, about the discount, the text messages, the contract, and every one of those 139 invoices — on a public docket, where every resident of Clarkstown can read the transcript. New York's anti-SLAPP law makes officials who sue their critics without a basis pay their critics' legal fees. Ask your lawyer what discovery means before you ask a court to protect you from your own paper trail.
Clarkstown: this is your town and your money, and you get to demand better. Here is what you can do today:
👉 SHARE this post — they demanded it be deleted; make sure every neighbor reads it first.
👉 SHOW UP at the next Town Board meeting and ask one question: why is he now in charge of the very department that oversees this contractor's work? (Per the Journal, he was named Interim Director of Engineering & Facilities Management.)
👉 SPEAK UP — demand the Board suspend him pending an outside investigation, and release the findings publicly. The town cannot investigate itself.
A public official's answer to documented questions should be answers — not a lawyer's letter demanding a critic's silence. Nothing gets deleted. Nothing gets retracted. And Clarkstown gets the truth, wherever it leads.
— Eugene
