04/28/08 - Do you really think it was Greenwich Senior Citizens who were involved in counterfeiting beach passes?

Town Of Greenwich Is Going To Put An End To The Senior Citizen Beach Card Counterfeiting Gangs.

Park's Department Head Joseph Siciliano has another dumb idea.

Joesph Siciliano is going to put holograms on senior citizen passes this year in order to stop the beach pass counterfeiters in Town.

Who the heck is going to make fake senior citizen beach passes?

Duh, Would Someone Please Tell Joseph Sicilano The Town Of Greenwich gives out senior citizen beach for
FREE !!!

Why isn't Joseph Siciliano smart enough to put the holograms on this years beach card, which costs $27 per person?

Better yet why isn't Joseph Siciliano smart enough to get holograms on parking stickers that cost $100 each?

Why isn't Joseph Sicilano smart enough to protect the taxpayers by calling one of the hundreds of firms that quickly deliver holograms?

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It's easy to get 1,000 holigrams for less than $200.

Here Is A Good Example Of
Incompetent-High-Paid Greenwich Town Administrators Pretending To Be At Work....

Currently, beach cards have the town seal printed on them as well as a bar code, though the town does not plan to scan the bar codes until next year.

Why isn't Joseph Siciliano smart enough to realize that Hand-held bar code scanners are cheap !!!!

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The Park pass bar codes are going to be in sequential order.

It is very easy to program a barcode scanner to accept pass numbers 00001 - 19145 and to reject all of the other numbers.

When is the Greenwich News Media Outlets Going To Start Asking Objective Questions That Deliver Hard Hitting Journalism That Protects The Single Family Home Owners And Taxpayers Of Greenwich?

Please read this Greenwich Time article and tell me if you see one quote from a Greenwich citizen or an opposing politician that thinks the public trust has been violated and that tax dollars are being mismanaged.

Beach cards to get holograms

To outsmart would-be counterfeiters, the town is introducing holograms on beach cards issued to senior citizens this year.

Next year, the town will put the holograms, which feature the town seal, on all beach cards. Currently, cards have the town seal printed on them as well as a bar code, though the town does not plan to scan the bar codes until next year. Beachgoers who try to enter Greenwich Point or Byram parks with counterfeit cards will also be in for a rude awakening next year.

"The town is embarking on a program where we'll be scanning all beach cards instead of a visual check," said Tom Greco, manager of business services operations for the parks department.

The town's introduction of added security layers to its beach cards comes as the police investigate an alleged counterfeiting caper involving the highly coveted passes, municipal parking stickers and marina permits.

Right now, much of what investigators have to go on in the case is a binder received in February from an anonymous tipster containing copies of the fake materials. It also identified the person allegedly running the operation, who police have said is a suspect and would not identify.

The alleged suspect in the case also has declined, through his attorney, to be interviewed by police, police have said.

Park officials said they were planning the measures before the scheme came to light.

"I want to reduce the risk of falsifying cards,"...Blah...Blah....Blah....Blah...

Here's how it works In Greenwich:

High paid Government Officials make bad decisions that lead to very expensive failures.

The single family home owners are forced to pay for the expensive screw ups .

The Town of Greenwich spins those failed decisions, and the Greenwich press only types what failed Town Administrators spew out.

Then the reporters just put the town spew through a spell check and go home to listen to the World's Greatest Communication Hoax (WGCH) read the "spin clips" in the morning.

There is no accountability in Greenwich, because Greenwich reporters don't have the journalistic balls to ask Town Administrators hard hitting questions that expose the truth.

Greenwich reporters are afraid to do a simple Google search on the cost and ease of applying holograms on beach passes, because they would have to go back and ask some Town Administrators some real hard hitting questions.

It is much easier to run a Town Press Release through the spell check and then go home.

Warning:
Weak Reporting Can Be Outsourced To India

Indians speak English and can run press releases through a spell check.

Complete Greenwich RTM Meetings can now viewed by an Indian Reporter via the internet.

An Indian Reporter can make a free skype call to get a quote from the First Selectman, School Superintendent or any other public official listed on the Town Web Site.

Photo's can be emailed to India.

Technology Marches On....

Weak local news reporting

can and has beeen

outsourced to India

Your city's news - from India

The job posting was a head-scratcher:

"We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA."

Outsourcing first claimed manufacturing jobs, then hit services such as technical support, airline reservations and tax preparation. Now comes the next frontier: local journalism. ...

Read The Full Story:

A news site hires two to cover Pasadena from afar. That helps a shoestring budget go further.

By Alex Pham

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

May 11, 2007

When is local journalism not really local? When it's about Pasadena and written by someone in India. James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend to cover the Pasadena City Council.

One lives in Mumbai and will be paid $12,000 a year. The other will work in Bangalore for $7,200. The council broadcasts its meetings on the Web. From nearly 9,000 miles away, the outsourced journalists plan to watch, then write their stories while their boss sleeps India is 12.5 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time. "A lot of the routine stuff we do can be done by really talented people in another time zone at much lower wages," said Macpherson, 51, who used to run a clothing business with manufacturing help from Vietnam and India.

So, on the Indian version of Craigslist, he posted an ad that said in part, "We do not believe that geographic distance between California and India will present unsurmountable problems, and that working together with you will result in your development of a keen working knowledge of this city's affairs." Dozens replied. One of the two chosen had attended the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Rob Gunnison, the director of school affairs there, is dismayed. "It just seems so fundamental to journalism to be there," Gunnison said. "I still can't quite believe it's not a hoax."

It's not. Macpherson plans to run his first batch of outsourced stories Tuesday. The Pasadena native runs the website, which he said gets 45,000 visitors a month, on a shoestring budget from his condo with help from his wife, a data entry worker and two interns. Macpherson plans to hire half a dozen more Indian reporters. He'll add some local flavor by doing interviews, then e-mailing the recordings to India. "When you instant-message someone in Mumbai, it's like looking over her shoulder," he said.

Larry Wilson, editor of the 30,000-circulation Pasadena Star-News newspaper, scoffed. "To pretend you can get the feel and the culture of a town as complicated and interesting as Pasadena by e-mailing and doing things over the Internet is nutty," he said.

AND NOW HERE IS THE PUNCH LINE

GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATOR'S LIKE THE IDEA OF OUTSOURCING REPORTING TO INDIA

Ann Erdman, spokeswoman for the city of Pasadena, thinks the approach is a little odd. But "as long as they get their facts correct, I'm a happy camper," she said.

If Greenwich Time Editor And Chief Joe Pisani Is Not Careful

He And His Crew May Find Themselve's On

The Unemployment Line While There Jobs Are Outsourced.

Please read more:

02/18/08 - The Parks Department Has Another Beach Pass Scandal. Will The Police Be Called? Will the person reponsible be punished?

02/19/08 - Coverup? - Why Isn't This Felony Being Investigated By The Police Department?

02/20/08 - Is The Coverup Comming To An End? - Police Commisioner Tesei Lights A Fire Under Police Chief Ridberg's Rear End.

02/21/08 - Stop The Coverup - Since When Is Joesph Siciliano A Criminal Investigator?

03/18/08 - First Selectman Peter Tesei said, "Every effort should be made to identify the culprit and prosecute the person."

04/21/08 - You Can Blame This Screw Up On High Paid Parks Department Head Joesph "I Thought I Could Handle A Police Investigation" Sicilano

04/22/08 - See The Channel 2 Video - Fakes Allowing Many Access To Exclusive Waterfront

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Please send your comments and news tips to Bangalore.

Press releases should be sent to Mumbai.

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Lunch, anyone?

For those who can't decide...

03/18/08 - First Selectman Peter Tesei said, "Every effort should be made to identify the culprit and prosecute the person."

Division of Criminal Justice

Office of the Chief State’s Attorney

Is The Parks Department Cover up Coming To An End?

An anonymous whistle Blower Reported A Felony To The Town The First Week Of February And His Complaint Was Ignored By The Parks Department Head Joseph Siciliano.

The anonymous whistle blower was left with no option, but to report the crime to Neil Vigdor Of The Greenwich Time.

Everyone in Greenwich wants to know why there was almost a month long delay in reporting the fake beach passes to the Greenwich Police Department.

The individual who allegedly produced the was identified in the Binder,

Please see:

02/18/08 - The Parks Department Has Another Beach Pass Scandal. Will The Police Be Called? Will the person reponsible be punished?

Yet, Joseph Siciliano did not inform the Greenwich Police Department That A Crime Had Been Reported To Him.

Please read:

02/19/08 - Coverup? - Why Isn't This Felony Being Investigated By The Police Department?

Finally, First Selectman And Police Commissioner Peter Tesei had to ordered Joseph Siciliano to give the binder to Greenwich Police Department and get a police investigation started.

First Selectman Peter Tesei, has told the Greenwich Media, "There needs to be a zero tolerance. That's why it needs to be handled by the police."

02/20/08 - Is The Coverup Comming To An End? - Police Commisioner Tesei Lights A Fire Under Police Chief Ridberg's Rear End.

02/21/08 - Stop The Coverup - Since When Is Joesph Siciliano A Criminal Investigator?

Neil Vigdor Of The Greenwich Time Reported today that beech cards, parking stickers and marina permits have been reported to Kevin T.
Kane's Connecticut State's Attorneys Office.

Police David Ridberg, to date has also refused to identify the individual who is accused of producing the counterfeit materials.

Worse yet, while Joseph Siciliano was pussy footing arround with the binder of evidence, the alleged counterfeiter ran and got an attorney. Now guess who is not talking to Greenwich Police Detectives?

For The Record:

When Greenwich Roundup Is Able To Get The Binder Of Forged Governmental Instraments, We Will Display Copy's Of Everything So That The Single Family Home Owners And Taxpayer's Can See Who Is Stealing From Them.

If we have to.... We Will File A Freedom Of Information Request For The Binder Of Forged Government Documents.

The Good News Is That Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg, says that the Greenwich Police Department is seeking help from the Conneticut State's Attorney's Offiices.

Now the Single Family Home Owners And Taxpayer's will get action, because KEVIN T. KANE, the Conneticut State's Attorney has a strong record of bringing person's who conterfiet Government Documents to justice.

Friday, March 07, 2008
Former DMV Worker Sentenced in License Scam
	A former state Department of Motor Vehicles worker from Ansonia was sentenced to prison today for her role in a scheme to provide fraudulent drivers’ licenses to a half-dozen individuals.

Friday, March 07, 2008
New Fairfield Man Charged with Forging EMT License
	A New Fairfield man was arrested today and charged with forging an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) license and using it to obtain a position with the New Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department ambulance service.

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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

~Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959

03/16/08 - Good Government In Action: "There are vehicles here that they can use. They don't need to take them home," First Selectman Peter Tesei said

Tesei wants to end town-vehicle policy

Calling it a costly and unnecessary perk, First Selectman Peter Tesei wants to put an end to furnishing municipal department heads with town-owned vehicles, many of whom use them to drive home at the end of the work day.

A number of department heads live out of town, with some commuting from as far away as Milford and Ridgefield. The town pays for their gas.

Tesei said he would rather that senior managers drive their personal vehicles to work and use the municipal motorpool for town business....

... The cost-saving initiative follows several other reforms ordered by Tesei to guard against the misuse of municipal cars and trucks, including the requirement that all vehicles bear the town seal. A list of the 300 vehicles in the municipal fleet was also posted on the town's Web site for the public to see....

... The new policy would not apply to police and fire brass, who have about eight cars assigned between them.

Parks Director Joseph Siciliano, who is assigned a town vehicle and lives in Norwalk, said there are some special circumstances where the assignment of a town vehicle is appropriate. "I think that there's an additional work requirement outside the normal work day, whether it's for meetings, or emergency call-out or seven-day operations, that should be considered when compensation packages are being made," Siciliano said.
Town officials said there have been instances when employees who are not issued cars as part of their jobs have driven town-owned cars home, however.

Elizabeth Linck, the town's fleet director, said it was quite possible that unauthorized employees were driving municipal vehicles home.....

More Local News From The Greenwich Time

Children fill up their Easter baskets at Lions Club event

When the starting horn went off, Tami Oppenheimer, 32, picked up two-year-old Tyler and ran to the other side of a field filled with eggs.

Seniors weigh costs of reverse mortgages

Dee Lewis has refinanced her Glenville home five or six times so she would have enough money to pay her property taxes.

Bagpipes abound at St. Patrick's Day parade

March is high season for Gregor MacIntyre, pipe major of the Greenwich Pipe Band.

USA Boxing may step into the ring in Stamford

USA Boxing, which has governed Olympic-style pugilism since 1888, is looking at Connecticut, especially Stamford, as the location for an East Coast office.

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- George Orwell,
Preface to Animal Farm (1946)

02/21/08 - Stop The Coverup - Since When Is Joesph Siciliano A Criminal Investigator?

Joseph siciliano And The Parks Department Are Now In Charge Of Felonies In Greenwich.

Who’s forging beach passes? Greenwich begins investigation

By Ken Borsuk, Staff Reporter - Greenwich Post

An internal investigation is under way into what could be counterfeit beach passes, parking stickers and marina permits.

(Comment: The Criminals Have Been Tipped Off And Are Probably Destroying Evidence While Parks Director And Key Stone Cop Joesph Siciliano Screws Up This Felony Investigation.)

According to Joseph Siciliano, the town’s director of parks and recreation, the department was provided with a binder earlier this month containing copies of the allegedly counterfeit material and information that identified who is believed to be responsible. Mr. Siciliano said he reviewed the material and the department is proceeding with an internal look.

(Comment: Meanwhile The Felon Is Removing And Destroying His Computer Hard Drive)

“I have photocopies of what is supposedly a knockoff,” Mr. Siciliano said. “We’ve been investigating since these were provided to our office. There are photocopies in here of passes from 2005 and 2006, but none from last year. We are looking at the names and addresses on the copies and we will see where we go from here.”

(Comment: Why Is Th is Taking So Long? Maybe Mr. Siciliano taking on-line courses at the Gibbs School of Criminal Justice In Norwalk?)

Mr. Siciliano said the material was “delivered” to the office, but declined to provide any more information about who had brought it there and why.

(Comment: Some On Walked In To Mr. Siciliano's Office And Reported A Felony And Theft From His Employer, Why Didn't Mr. Siciliano Immediately Pick Up The Phone And Call The Greenwich Police Department?)

“We are going to pursue this and we will either end up with something we can provide the police department to act on, or it will be a dead end,” Mr. Siciliano said. “We are continuing to pursue this to the best of our ability.”

(Comment: To The "Best Of Your Ability" !!! Hello, You Are Not Propperly Trained To Conduct A felony Investigation !!!! Call The Police Department !!!!)

As of Tuesday, the Greenwich Police Department was not involved in the matter other being informed about it.

“This is being handled by the Parks and Recreation Department,” Public Information Officer Lt. Daniel Allen said Tuesday. “They have spoken to me and we told them that we would assist them in any form or fashion if they require our assistance.”

Lt. Allen said the ball is now in the department’s court as to how it wants to proceed. However, there are already strong urgings from Town Hall that the police should get involved.

(Comment: The Greenwich Police Department Is Aware Of A Felony Being Committed Against The Town, And It Has Not Immediately Started An Investigation. Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg Should Immediately Send A Greenwich Police Detective To The Parks Department To Gather All Evidence Involving This Felony.)

When reached for comment on Monday, First Selectman Peter Tesei told the Post he felt this should be a police investigation and not something done internally by the department.

“Any offense of this nature, whether it involves beach passes or parking stickers, is an offense,” Mr. Tesei said. “Joe Siciliano should not be unilaterally undertaking an investigation. That’s not his job. He’s been made aware of something and this should now be turned over to the police. End of story.”
(Comment: Mr. Siciliano Is Being Insubordinate For Not Following First Selectman Peter Tesei's Directions. Why Is Mr. Siciliano Being So Stuborn? Is He Trying To Protect Someone?)

Mr. Tesei said he had been briefed by Mr. Siciliano on the matter and planned to meet with him again this week.

On Tuesday, Mr. Siciliano confirmed that Mr. Tesei had made his wishes clear. He said the investigation is still focused on background work he termed “homework” and that he was doing work the police would need to proceed with any criminal investigation. He said he would turn the investigation over to the police when there was something concrete to provide, and he believed Mr. Tesei understood.
(Comment: Please See Previous Comment. Mr. Siciliano Is Being Ridiculous.)

One factor hindering the investigation, Mr. Siciliano said, was that the passes were from 2005 and 2006 and it would be hard to track down the information needed because the department’s database is updated every year and the previous year’s data is eliminated.
(Comment: It Is Hard For Mr. Siciliano To Track Down Information, Because He Is Not A Trained Greenwich Police Investigator With Years Of Experience. The Greenwich Police Department Even Has Experience At Recovering Computer Data That Has Been Deleted.)

“We’ve been getting some dead ends on some information and we don’t have the information to go on for other leads,” Mr. Siciliano said.
(Comment: This Guy Is Siciliano Is Unreal. Stop The Coverup And Call The Proffessional Criminal Investigators At The Greenwich Police Department. The Phone Number Is 622-8000.)

PLEASE LOOK AT THESE PREVIOUS POSTS:

• 02/16/08 - Greenwich investigates fake copies of coveted beach passes (Updated)
• 02/18/08 - The Parks Department Has Another Beach Pass Scandal. Will The Police Be Called? Will the person reponsible be punished?
• 02/19/08 - Coverup? - Why Isn't This Felony Being Investigated By The Police Department?
• 02/20/08 - Is The Coverup Comming To An End? - Police Commisioner Tesei Lights A Fire Under Police Chief Ridberg's Rear End.