September 25, 2001
Frank Rossi, Residency Officer #4
Human Resources Division
Buffalo City Hall
Buffalo, NY 14201
Dear Mr. Rossi: RE: Residency Non-enforcement
I have had no response to repeated requests for enforcement of City Charter residency laws on top appointees, known for years to live in suburbs in open defiance of city law. I was prosecuted 3X by District Attorney Frank Clark (& ADA Drmacich) for exposing non-residency of the City Treasurer in 1995. My 11th prosecution was just dismissed on absurd false charges of ‘felony Faxing’ & harassment- by-bike filed by Clark-Drmacich for now-fired Residency Officer #3, Independence Party Chair & BMHA BD member Charlie Flynn (I have exposed his corruption).
The top non-resident appointees are:
1) BMHA Assistant Exec. Thomas A Williams, who moved to Thompson Rd, Clarence in 1995 when appointed to his now-$73,000/year patronage job, with a mere GED. He alleges he lives with his mother-in-law on devastated West Ave., even listing a phone (881-1949) there.
2) Comptroller Nanula’s Public Relations Officer, Anthony Fina lives in his longtime home in N Tonawanda in Niagara County. His pretend residence in a free room at 521 Lafayette was recently documented by Gerhardt Yaskow
3) Pitts-appointee Lawrence Stitts, who directs Johnny B Wiley Athletic Field, Jefferson & Best from the Council President’s Office (1 mile away), lives on Tonawanda Creek Rd, East Amherst, not in an attic apartment on inner-city Schuele near E. Delavan.
4) City Hearing Officer Greg Fina, Esq., supervised by primary-winning City Court “for the people” candidate Joe Fiorella, has lived in Kenmore since 1990, not in a shabby Delaware Ave. apartment. There is powerful appearance he helped launch the just- sentenced King brother’s HUD-FHA scam from his last real city residence. (The Kings used 296 Baynes as their address [Fina held mortgage] until selling it in 1999. HUD foreclosed in 1996 for $103,000, reselling it for $8,000, losing over $95,000 on one house).
I need an immediate response as to your investigation & planned prosecution of these dramatic high level scofflaws. Troublingly, they have full support of the Mayor, Comptroller & Council President, while unions have an obvious defense of “selective enforcement” at lower levels.
It appears to be a top-level conspiracy against both taxpayers & a ‘new improved’ City Charter. I await your speedy response.
Urgently,
Richard Kern, MSW
cc. M. Kuzma, Esq; Corporation Counsel
354 Baynes St. Buffalo, NY 14213 (716) 882-2388 Kernwatch@AOL.com
WEBSITE: www.Kernwatch.com
