EX-CORTLANDT EMPLOYEE AND PEEKSKILL LANDSCAPER PLEAD GUILTY IN ILLEGAL DUMPING SCHEME

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Ex-Cortlandt employee and Peekskill landscaper plead guilty in illegal dumping scheme--Jonathan Bandler

Rockland/Westchester Journal News

Cortlandt's former assistant general foreman and the owner of a Peekskill landscaping company pleaded guilty Monday to an illegal dumping scheme and have agreed to pay $2.4 million in restitution.

Over two years, in exchange for cash bribes, Robert Dyckman gave Glenn Griffin access to the town's Environmental Services site on Arlo Lane, where Griffin's Landscaping Corp. would dump unauthorized materials. The company was then paid by the town to remove the material.

In announcing the guilty pleas, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams assailed Dyckman for using "his important public position to enrich himself and damage public lands" by allowing Griffin to dump the harmful material. Griffin turning around and billing the town to remove what he had illegally dumped was "brazen," Williams said.

Griffin also pleaded guilty to a separate bid-rigging scheme that bilked Croton Harmon schools and the Verplanck fire district out of $133,000. MORE AT Ex-Cortlandt employee, Peekskill contractor plead guilty dumping scheme (lohud.com)