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Ex-Cortlandt Worker, Business Owner Plead Guilty in Dumping Scheme--September 2, 2024--Rick Pezzullo
A former longtime Town of Cortlandt employee and owner of a prominent Peekskill-based landscaping company pled guilty last week for their involvement in an illegal dumping and bribery scheme at a town facility on Arlo Lane.
Robert Dyckman, 52, former Assistant General Foreman in Cortlandt’s Department of Environmental Service Highway Division, and Glenn Griffin, 55, owner, president and principal of Griffin’s Landscaping Corporation, could each face up to five years in prison when they are scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti on Dec. 5.
As first reported by Examiner Media in Jan. 2021, from 2018 until Feb. 2020, Dyckman allegedly gave Griffin and his employees unauthorized access to land behind the town’s salt dome at the end of Arlo Lane to dump hundreds of large truckloads of unauthorized materials such as thick concrete, cement with rebar, large rocks, and soil from projects outside Cortlandt.
The scheme also involved the submission of fraudulent invoices totaling more than $100,000 for work not performed...According to Williams, between 2015 and 2018, Griffin defrauded the Village of Croton-on-Hudson for work on its schools, and the hamlet of Verplanck for work at its fire department.
Williams stated Griffin made “sham, non-competitive, and inflated bids” on behalf of entities that Griffin did not work for or have authorization to submit bids on behalf of, so that Griffin would be the low bidder in a pool of purportedly competitive bids and receive public money for work on the projects.
Griffin pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Dyckman pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. MORE AT Ex-Cortlandt Worker, Business Owner Plead Guilty in Dumping Scheme | The Examiner News
A former longtime Town of Cortlandt employee and owner of a prominent Peekskill-based landscaping company pled guilty last week for their involvement in an illegal dumping and bribery scheme at a town facility on Arlo Lane.
Robert Dyckman, 52, former Assistant General Foreman in Cortlandt’s Department of Environmental Service Highway Division, and Glenn Griffin, 55, owner, president and principal of Griffin’s Landscaping Corporation, could each face up to five years in prison when they are scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti on Dec. 5.
As first reported by Examiner Media in Jan. 2021, from 2018 until Feb. 2020, Dyckman allegedly gave Griffin and his employees unauthorized access to land behind the town’s salt dome at the end of Arlo Lane to dump hundreds of large truckloads of unauthorized materials such as thick concrete, cement with rebar, large rocks, and soil from projects outside Cortlandt.
The scheme also involved the submission of fraudulent invoices totaling more than $100,000 for work not performed...According to Williams, between 2015 and 2018, Griffin defrauded the Village of Croton-on-Hudson for work on its schools, and the hamlet of Verplanck for work at its fire department.
Williams stated Griffin made “sham, non-competitive, and inflated bids” on behalf of entities that Griffin did not work for or have authorization to submit bids on behalf of, so that Griffin would be the low bidder in a pool of purportedly competitive bids and receive public money for work on the projects.
Griffin pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Dyckman pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. MORE AT Ex-Cortlandt Worker, Business Owner Plead Guilty in Dumping Scheme | The Examiner News
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