Q&A with Darius Chafizadeh of Harris Beech, Counsel to the New Rochelle Board of Ethics

Robert Cox

Jun 2, 2024 — 7 min read

DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 2, 2024) — A few weeks ago, I had an email Q&A with Darius Chafizadeh, Partner, Harris Beech PLLC about his role as outside counsel for the New Rochelle Board of Ethics.

I am still struggling to understand how the same attorney who wrote the legally unsound, political document posing as a decision by the New Rochelle Board of Ethics in response to my ethics complaint against Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert could also produce the well-reasoned, throughly researched legal opinion provided to the City of New Rochelle which concurred with a New Rochelle Board of Ethics advisory opinion dated December 31, 2023.

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