Recommended Reading, November 17, 2024

Robert Cox

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DUBLIN, IRELAND (November 17, 2024) — After a week in Germany and Austria, I am back in Ireland. It can always change but as of now my next trip will be in April. I am considering Croatia which many people have recommended but nothing for sure at the time.

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There has been a ton of reaction and game playing within New Rochelle City Hall to my latest series. I am shifting my Thimblerig series just a bit to insert a Part VII that will be a collection of updates on different bits of news and information that came out of reporting and publishing the first six parts. Part VII will be a Premium article.

The New Rochelle Thimblerig — Part VI

I came across an absurd article from Pew Charitable Trust in which the stenographer (or so-called “reporter”) and Noam Bramson make it out the Noam was/is responsible for development in New Rochelle. He had no role whatsoever except taking credit for other people’s work. As a ceremonial Mayor he could have no role under the Charter, what the administration (Chuck, Kathleen) did was to keep Noam as far away from the work of staff as possible because Noam could only screw things up, and when he pressured Chuck Strome to appoint him Development Commissioner he ended up in a criminal investigation.

Here is my email to the idiot who wrote the fake news account of Noam supposedly presiding over development in New Rochelle:

My sense is that either you do not know the government of New Rochelle has a council-manager form of government (so Noam had no role whatsoever in the development you are interviewing him about as if he did) or you are a friend of Noam writing a puff piece as a personal favor (as has happened before).
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Maybe you are unaware that in 2022 the New Rochelle Board of Ethics sustained charges against him for pressuring the City Manager to appoint him Development Commissioner, a position for which he was wholly unqualified to hold.
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He was investigated by the DA in 2022 but they decided to file charges. He had additional sustained ethics allegations in 2023. He is under investigation now by two agencies. Other than that I thought your article was an interesting attempt by Noam to rehabilitate his image.

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