This is the same Peter Iasillo (who to this day introduces himself as Mayor Iasillo) who was a target of an FBI sting operation back in the 1970s and he now wants Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden to replace the corruption busting Mayor Dennis Pilla.
"Iasillogate"
This is the same Peter Iasillo who was involved in a 1993 ethics probe involving secret audiotapes that ultimately led him to leave public office, as well as, a previous year-long ethics investigation involving the Landmark Building and now wants the ethically challenged Bart "The Bigot" Didden to be the next mayor of Port Chester.
Long time Port Chester residents remember when five Port Chester officials, including its Mayor Iasillo, the Police Chief and the Village Manager, were being charged with a breach of ethics for buying condominiums before they were made available to the public at The Landmark, the former Lifesavers factory in the village.
Who can forget how Mayor Peter Iasillo, Joseph Coletti, a Village Trustee; John Grosse, the Chief of Police; Richard Falanka, the Village Clerk; Michael D. Ritchie, the Village Manager, and, in the words of the charge, ''all other village officials, officers and employees similarly situated.''
The complaint, filed with the three-member Village Board of Ethics by two Village Trustees, said the officials voted to rezone the property or performed other official acts in connection with the building and meanwhile ''had their names secretly placed on a preferred list'' in order to be first purchasers.
It also charges that the price was raised 5 percent to other buyers after the officials had bought their units, which were advertised as ''affordable'' that started out at $98.000.
Monroe Y. Mann, the lawyer for Vincent Sapione and Nicholas Fusco, the Trustees who filed the complaint, said 400 people had lined up to buy the condominiums and some of them had camped out for one, two or three nights to keep their place in line. When the office opened, 40 or 50 of the 199 condominiums had been sold at the lower price to Mayor Iasillo, the Police Chief, The Village Clerk, other officials, village employees, their relatives, contractors, business associates and other insiders.
Anthony B. Gioffre, a former State Senator, and Dominick D. Pierro, a County Legislator also were rumored to be in on the secret deal to scoop up affordable housing condominiums units at a discount price..
Mr. Pierro got one of those affordable housing condominiums as part of a three-member corporation - including his law partner, John Colangelo, and a third person whose name he said he refused to disclose.
After Mayor Iasillo and his friends got their discounted affordable housing units. The Prices for the affordable housing units were raised 5 percent.
This meant that EMTs,Firefighters, Police Officers, Nurses, Teachers and other Port Chester residents who waited in line had to pay $5,000 to $15,000 more than the early buyerspaid for the affordable condominiums, which were priced in the beginning at $98,000.
It was widely reported that Mayor Iasillo and the other officials bought the affordable housing condominium units for investment or immediate resale because they all own their own homes Port Chester.
The corrupt and greedy Port Chester officials who had homes got discounted affordable housing units so they could flip them for a quick profit.
The Ethics Board, which was established six years ago, has never had a case come before it until Iasillogate came before it.
Now the master mind of Iasillogate wants you to vote for Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
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