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WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. December 28, 2012:
The Mobil Station at 174 Westchester Avenue was held up at 5 A.M. Thursday morning by three men, one armed with a handgun, according to The Journal News.
The attendent handed over money and lottery tickets. White Plains Police Detectives are asking anyone with information on the robbery to call 914-422-6200 oe 914-422-6223. Identities will be kept confidential.
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WPCNR Common Council Chronicle-Examiner. December 28, 2012 UPDATED 5:15 P.M. E.S.T.:
Unlike the U.S. Congress, four members of the Common Council met Thursday evening and again this morning at 8:45 A.M. to approve an ordinance dissolving the company that originally built 150 Lake Street, the 68-unit Section 8 apartments near the Ebersole Rink.
The ordinance passed this morning enables the city to receive $467,000, due the city under the terms of the Public Housing Finance Law, from the new company which will own 150 Lake Street, White Plains Affordable Housing Development Fund Company, Incorporated, owned by the same owner Mark Soja.
The company being dissolved was known as 150 Lake Street Associates, LP.
The passing of the ordinance by the Council in two separate votes of 4-0 by Councilpersons Benjamin Boykin,Dennis Krolian, John Martin and Beth Smayda, paves the way for White Plains Affordable Housing Development Fund Company to rehabilitate the 68 apartments.
John Callahan, Corporation Counsel for the city, told WPCNR that the $467,000 has not as yet been earmarked for any specific purpose, that it will go into the city general fund.
Callahan said the sudden meetings (noticed at approximately 3 P.M. Thursday afternoon), were called to approve the dissolution at the request of the developer, otherwise the developer stood to lose tax credits.
WPCNR has placed a call to the developer, and hopes to learn more about how and when the renovation would proceed, and the financing, if any, involved.
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WPCNR Southend Times. December 27, 2012:
A rough count of the locations of persons licensed to own a handgun in White Plains. The locations were disclosed by a Westchester County wide map published by the Journal News this week based on data obtained by a Journal News freedom of information request.
The map, if you count up the dots in White Plains, indicates that there appear to be about 611 registered Gun Licenseholders in the city out of 31,030 registered voters, or about 2% of the adult registered voters population of the city. (There are approximately 57,000 residents in the city of White Plains.)
The area of the city with the most gun licensees is the Highlands from south of Post Road, east to Mamaroneck Avenue to the Scarsdale border with 137 households licensed to own a gun.
The next most heavily Licensed-up area is the North end of town above I-287, including, Woodcrest Heights, Garrestson Road to North White Plains with 80 Gun Licensees.
In the North Broadway area from I-287 to Hamilton Avenue, including Ferris Avenue and Eastview and Church Street, there are 59 residents licensed to carry a gun.
Fisher Hill West of Post Road shows 48 Gun License Holders; Battle Hill, west of Route 119 has 59 licensees, and Eastview, East of North Broadway has 22.
There are very little gun license owners in the heart of the downtown. The most of any one area is Carhart, 7.
In the Highlands from Post Road South to Scarsdale, including Soundview Manor, there are 137 residents with gun licenses.
In Rocky Dell, there were 12 gun licenses.
South of Ridgeway, to the West of Mamaroneck AvenueMamaroneck there were 52 Gun Licensee locations, and in the Gedney Farms neighborhood there were 66. In Haviland Manor east of North Street there were 46 Gun License holders, 31 of them in the Rosedale Section.
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WPCNR PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DAY. By the WPCNR ROVING PHOTOGRAPHER. December 27, 2012 UPDATED DECEMBER 29. 2012:
A backhoe could be seen delivering multiple coups de gras to the former Cappelli Enterprise sales offices today.
The perfectly viable and taxable office building, built in 2005, is being torn down as part of the original Ritz Carlton approval, to build an as yet, undesigned, off the tax rolls, vest pocket park that will provide green space between the Ritz on the left and Grace Church on the right.
John Callahan, Corporation Counsel for the City, told WPCNR, Louis Cappelli, the owner is expected to come back to the Common Council in the spring to discuss his suggested design of the park. Callahan said the previous building, (now being demolitioned), was taxable, but added that Cappelli Enterprises is not deeding the city the park. Cappelli Enterprises will continue to own whatever park design ends up being acceptable to the Council, Callahan said. Callahan said the future park land would be on the city tax roll as land, and would be assessed as land.
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WPCNR MR. AND MRS. WHITE PLAINS POLL. December 26, 2012:
The Journal News published an interactive map on their website (compiled by filing a freedom of information request) this weekend that shows the locations and identifies persons in Westchester and Rockland County, who have gun permits.
By zooming in on the White Plains area on the map, you can see the locations, names and addresses of persons on your block who have pistol permits.
The map is located at http://www.lohud.com/interactive/article/20121223/NEWS01/121221011/Map-Where-gun-permits-your-neighborhood–
The map raises a question whether neighbors should have the right to know who has gun permits in their neighborhood, and whether or residents in a neighborhood should be notifieed by police and the county when new gun licenses are granted to persons living near them much as when persons are notified when sex offenders move into their neighborhood.
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WPCNR MILESTONES. December 26, 2012:
John Dolce longtime Commissioner of Public Safety for the City of White Plains through 2002, died Monday at the age of 83.
A native of New Britain,he was born June 27, 1929 the son of Francis and Theresa Dolce. He attended New York University on a football scholarship and finished college in three years, graduating from Adelphi University.
Dolce began his career with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, rising to assistant special agent in charge of the New York field office.
In 1965, he accepted a position as the deputy public safety commissioner with the city of White Plains. He eventually became commissioner of public safety and served in the position until his retirement in 2002.
He married Lola Perazzo on Nov. 6, 1954.
Dolce is survived by his wife; two sons, John Dolce, of Virginia, and Timothy Dolce, of Yonkers; two daughters, Patricia Kelleher, of Brewster, N.Y., and Christine Wiseman, of Bethel, Conn.; a sister, Theresa Tancredi; and six grandchildren. He was predeceased by a daughter, Cathy Ann, in 1967.
Visitation is from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday at McMahon, Lyon and Hartnett Funeral Home in White Plains. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in White Plains. Burial will follow at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale.
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BAH! HUMBUG! FREE METER PARKING DUMPED BY HUMBUGS AT CITY HALL.
WPCNR MAMARONECK AVENUE AMBLER. By John F. Bailey. December 22, 2012:
I wheeled into the White Plains downtown Saturday to do some Christmas Shopping at the City Center.
My fantasy was of obtaining one of the free parking meter spaces on Mamaroneck Avenue and selected side streets.
I eagerly anticipate this every year since I can remember.
It has been a tradition on Christmas Week for the ruthless City of White Plains Parking Commissars and Parking Enforcement Officers to give back this token good will gesture to lure shoppers for years. There were not a lot of them, but at least it was up and down Mamaroneck Avenue. The “5th Avenue Westchester County.”
But something was wrong!
I was moving slow down the avenue, passing Maple Avenue, looking for the cheer of the red bags (shown above in a 2006 WPCNR photo).
Not a red meter “hoodie” was showing. I hit Post Road and Mamaroneck, still not a red free parking cover in sight.
By Martine Avenue, I was way worried. No red bag covered parking meter cheer did I see.
There were no Red Free Parking Spaces to be found in the heart of the shopping district.
Is the city this hardup for coin that one of the few pleasant things about Christmas in the downtown had to be eliminated, without telling anybody?
Come on. This is yet another public relations gaffe. A slap in the face to good will and cheer, and concern for people’s economic woes.
For anyone with the luck to get one of these parking spaces in past years, it made your day — an extra bit of warmth in years past and guaranteed worry-free parking.
What a dumb decison!
The Common Council might launch a city hall investigation on this one.
I do not care how much coin it cost the city to run this now defunct cheery promotion.
I can hear the excuses now: “People hogged the spaces, stayed too long.” “It created dangerous conflicts over free spots,” or “It conflicted with drinking traffic at the bars.”
The city must be in free fall on revenues to do something this dumb, cheap and mean.
Once again, another inept decision by the one-day-at-a-time seat-of-the-pants management at city hall.
Not even free parking in the municipal garage at city hall — which definitely would not create a parking hazard.
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WPCNR FBI WIRE. From the Federal Bureau of Investigation. December 20, 2012:
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Peter Madoff, the former chief compliance officer and senior managing director of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS), was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for crimes stemming from a two-count superseding information to which he pled guilty that charged him with, among other things, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, tax fraud, mail fraud, ERISA fraud, and falsifying records of an investment adviser.
The overt acts in the conspiracy count also included, among other things, making false statements to investors about BLMIS’s compliance program and the nature and scope of its Investment Advisory business. Madoff pled guilty in June 2012. He was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said, “Peter Madoff was a gatekeeper, who was supposed to guard against fraud, but instead enabled it—facilitating his brother Bernie’s breathtaking scheme by falsifying compliance records and lying to both regulators and clients of BLMIS. The decade he will spend in prison and the disgorgement of his assets are a just result. Our efforts to hold to account anyone and everyone who played a role in this unprecedented Ponzi scheme continue.”
According to the superseding information to which Madoff pled guilty and other court filings:
Madoff was employed at BLMIS from 1965 through December 2008. Beginning in 1969, he became the chief compliance fficer (CCO) and senior managing director of BLMIS. In his role as CCO, Madoff created false and misleading BLMIS compliance documents, as well as false reports that were filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that materially misstated the nature and scope of BLMIS’s Investment Advisory (IA) business.
Specifically, in his capacity as CCO, Madoff created numerous false compliance documents in which he stated that he had performed compliance reviews of the trading in the BLMIS IA business on a regular basis, when in reality, the reviews were never performed. The false statements were designed to mislead regulators, auditors, and IA clients.
Further, in August 2006, BLMIS registered as an investment adviser with the SEC. As a registered investment adviser, on at least an annual basis, BLMIS was required to file forms with the SEC that are used as part of the oversight process of investment advisers.
Madoff was integrally involved with both the SEC registration process and in the creation of the forms, known as “Forms ADV,” which were materially false and misleading. The numerous false statements in the Forms ADV created the false appearance that BLMIS’s IA business had a small number of highly sophisticated clients and far fewer assets under management than was actually the case. Madoff also misrepresented that he, as CCO, ensured that reviews of the IA trading were being performed.
In addition, from 1998 through 2008, Madoff engaged in a tax fraud scheme involving the transfer of wealth within the Madoff family in ways that allowed him to avoid paying millions of dollars in required taxes to the IRS. Most, if not all of the “wealth,” came directly or indirectly from IA client funds held at BLMIS. The schemes in which he engaged also allowed Bernard L. Madoff to evade his tax obligations. The methods by which Madoff engaged in tax fraud included the following:
Madoff also arranged for his wife to have a “no-show” job at BLMIS from which she received between approximately $100,000 to $160,000 per year in salary, a 401(k), and health benefits to which she was not entitled.
In December 2008, when the collapse of BLMIS was virtually certain, Madoff agreed with others to send the $300 million that remained in the IA accounts to preferred employees, family members and friends. BLMIS collapsed before the funds were ever disbursed. On December 10, 2008, one day prior to BLMIS’s collapse, Madoff also withdrew $200,000 from BLMIS for his personal use.
