• Landscaping

    Business owner and former Cortlandt official are accused of fraud

    A previous town of Cortlandt employee and the owner of a landscaping organization have been arrested Thursday and indicted on general public corruption and fraud fees in relationship with an unlawful dumping plan on a town-owned lot. Robert Dyckman, 51 of Verplanck, a previous assistant basic foreman with the town of Cortlandt, and Glenn Griffin, 53, of Cortlandt Manor, the proprietor, president and principal of Griffin’s Landscaping Company, have been arrested and indicted, in accordance to Damian Williams, the U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York. Griffin also was indicted in relationship with a independent bid-rigging plan in the village of Croton-on-Hudson and the hamlet of Verplanck. The…

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  • New Art

    Alec Baldwin Hosts New ‘Art Fraud’ Podcast

    Amagansett property owner Alec Baldwin is web hosting iHeartRadio’s new Art Fraud podcast primarily based on fellow Hamptonite Michael Shnayerson‘s 2012 Vainness Fair report on Manhattan’s now-infamous Knoedler Gallery, which unknowingly, or knowingly — relying on who you talk to — offered dozens of Summary Expressionist forgeries and defrauded collectors out of thousands and thousands of dollars above virtually two many years. Baldwin’s desire could have been piqued due to his personal history as a sufferer of a fraudulent art sale. Portion of the wildly well-liked correct crime style of podcasts, brought to the fore by Sagaponack native Sarah Koenig‘s Serial in 2014, the eight-episode Art Fraud sequence is touted…

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