Don't know the details there bumble but I do know She (deSarbo) had a major hand in the hiring of Jon Craig Surprise and had a major role in a huge promotion in that office. Her father got a signicant assessment redux for no apparent reason other than his alliance with Jon Craig Surprise. Told you law enforcement was sniffin. Wait there is more to come!!!
SCHENECTADY COUNTY Former CSEA head facing charge Ex-treasurer, union drop suits BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter
The legal futures of two former local union officials tied to the larger Steven Raucci saga went in opposite directions this week, with one being arrested on a burglary charge and another seeing a lawsuit against her summarily dropped. Joanne DeSarbo, 49, of Schenectady, former president of CSEA Local 847, was arrested Thursday, accused of burglarizing a Schodack home in January 2007. It’s the same home that former union head and alleged arsonist Steven Raucci is accused of trying to bomb that same month. DeSarbo is accused of burglarizing the home, belonging to another CSEA employee, and taking a gold ring and a tennis bracelet, state police said. The burglary is alleged to have been personal in nature, Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney said. He declined to elaborate, noting that unlike the Raucci allegations, DeSarbo’s case will be prosecuted in Rensselaer County. DeSarbo was arraigned in Schodack Town Court Thursday evening on one count of second-degree burglary and released on her own recognizance. She is being represented by attorney Kenneth Litz. State police also declined to say whether DeSarbo’s alleged break-in was before or after Raucci’s alleged Jan. 12, 2007 acts, or whether DeSarbo knew about them. Schodack Police Chief Bernhard Peter in February characterized Raucci as hitting his target there after “he decided to get involved” and “be helpful.” Peter spoke after Raucci’s arrest. He could not be reached for comment Friday. Raucci is accused in Schodack of placing a device with a cigarette fuse at the home of CSEA employee Laura Balogh, the same month as DeSarbo is accused of burglarizing the home. The Raucci device did not go off. Balogh has worked in the agency’s health benefits department, newspaper records show. Meanwhile, another former Local 847 union official, former treasurer Cynthia Chevalier, saw a lawsuit related to her alleged union activities dropped Wednesday. The state CSEA filed suit last month against Chevalier, Local 847’s longtime treasurer, claiming she refused to turn over requested financial records after suggestions of improprieties. Through her attorney, Chevalier answered the allegations in papers, saying she was perfectly willing to help get the documents, but that the state CSEA never came to get them. Then, in February, the documents were handed over to state police investigators, she said. Carney has confirmed investigators reviewed similar documents. He also confirmed Friday that Chevalier is not a criminal target. Chevalier also filed a countersuit, claiming she was being set up as a scapegoat. It was Wednesday that both sides officially dropped their claims. CSEA officials could not be reached for comment. Chevalier was represented by attorney John Hoke. He said the papers spoke for themselves. Hoke is also representing another figure in the Raucci case, Ronald Kriss. Kriss was one of the first people to publicly blow the whistle on Raucci, filing a federal suit against him early last year. Raucci was president of the school district’s CSEA unit. The entire Local 847, which represents Schenectady County employees, was placed into administratorship Feb. 23, shortly after Raucci’s initial arrest. The move stripped board members, including DeSarbo and Chevalier, of their titles. Carney said he would have more to say on any connections between the alleged DeSarbo burglary and Raucci when Raucci’s long-awaited indictment is released, possibly next week. DeSarbo’s attorney, Litz, declined to comment Friday. Litz is also the part-time town justice in Rotterdam. Part-time town justices are allowed to have a practice of their own, provided they don’t practice in their home county. The 60-year-old Raucci, who has since retired from his school post, is suspected in at least a dozen incidents that prosecutors believe can be prosecuted, and others that may simply be too old to prosecute. He would damage cars of people who simply disagreed with him, slashing tires, damaging paint or blowing windshields out, Carney said previously. One couple reported their car being vandalized five times and said that Raucci had publicly denounced the husband. Raucci allegedly threatened to ........http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00101
Wasn't this Joanne DeSarbo, still president of the CSEA when they were requesting financial copies from that Chevalier woman? If I remember correctly, this Chevalier woman only produced one year and they asked for three....or something like that. I think it was back in Nov or December of 2008.
Was or is this Chevalier woman married to a RP officer? And is this the same Desarbo that was a dispatcher for Rotterdam?
well bum that desarbo that is a dispatcher for rotterdam is my sister in law and is not the one in question...so there you go again with your non sense
well bum that desarbo that is a dispatcher for rotterdam is my sister in law and is not the one in question...so there you go again with your non sense
No nonsense BG. I was just asking a simple question. If ya read it again, there were no accusations.
And by the way, thanks for the answer.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Carl Strock THE VIEW FROM HERE Sch’dy school board jiggered jobs twice
Carl Strock can be reached at 395-3085 or by e-mail at carlstrock@dailygazette.com.
I have been nosing around in the affairs of the Schenectady City School District, trying to understand how the head of buildings and grounds, Steve Raucci, was able to impose a reign of terror for so long without being exposed — if the criminal charges against him are correct —and here is something I have discovered. Raucci was not officially “supervisor of buildings and grounds,” which is a Civil Service classification that would have required him to take an exam. Rather, in March 2003, the Board of Education appointed him “head utility worker,” a job classification that did not require an exam. (Before that he was a mere “maintenance worker.”) A few months later, when the then-head of buildings and grounds, Lou Semione, got elevated to “energy management supervisor,” the board abolished the position of supervisor of buildings and grounds, leaving Raucci with that responsibility, and that power, but without the official title and therefore without the inconvenience of having to take a competitive exam. This worked out nicely for the board and for the school administration. Raucci was now both supervisor of the school district’s 100-plus maintenance workers and president of the CSEA unit representing those workers, a post that he already held. He was thus in a position to bully workers into doing campaign work for Jeff Janiszewski’s hand-picked school board candidates, when Janiszewski became board president, and for passage of the board’s annual school budget, which a number of workers have said that he in fact did. He steered them to CSEA headquarters in Latham to work the phone bank and to Schenectady taverns to stuff envelopes, sometimes on school time, when they were supposed to be working. If any of those workers had wanted to complain they would have had to file a grievance against their supervisor through their union president, and since Raucci was both their supervisor and their union president, you won’t be surprised to learn that they filed no such grievances, or at least no such grievances ever made their way through Raucci’s hands into official channels. I filed a Freedom of Information request to see all the grievances that Raucci submitted during his tenure, and there were none — zero — after he became “head utility worker,” though there were a couple before that, when he was a mere maintenance worker. So it was a cozy little arrangement that the school board and the school administration had with Mr. Raucci. He kept labor peace, you might say, and he did the dirty work for their campaigns, while they provided him with a managerial job allowing him to make upwards of $100,000 a year, with overtime, without the nuisance of a qualifying exam. They may not have known he was planting explosives, as he is charged with doing, but they certainly knew he was filing no labor grievances, and they certainly knew he was delivering campaign workers for them. Indeed, Janiszewski, as board president, was one of those who supervised the campaign workers. The school board, it should be noted, was not a stranger to manipulating jobs. In August 2004, it created the job of “behavior intervention specialist” for Janiszewski’s wife, Catherine, who had previously been a teacher’s aide making approximately $12 an hour. The new job would have required a competitive exam, according to Civil Service rules, except that the county Civil Service Commission didn’t approve the job, instead asking the school district for clarification of the duties associated with it. Alas, the district did not respond to that request and thus did not get the job approved but kept Mrs. Janiszewski employed in the new gig anyway, at a salary, last year, of $44,870. That is, the district didn’t respond until I started snooping around, and then suddenly, after a delay of almost five years, they did come back with an expanded job description, which makes very entertaining reading if you happen to get hold of it, and this past Tuesday the Civil Service Commission did grant approval, so now the position of “behavior intervention specialist” is finally official, and at some point Mrs. Janiszewski will have to take an exam for the job if she wants to keep it. You may well ask, Can the school district do that? Can they fill a supposedly competitive job for fi ve years without competition and without Civil Service approval? “It is a violation of Civil Service law,” Joe McQueen, spokesman for Schenectady County told me. “The Civil Service Commission is now aware of this and will be reviewing the situation.” So we’ll see what, if anything, comes of it, though I don’t expect anyone to go to prison over it. But anyway, that gives you an idea of how the Schenectady City School District has been operating, so if anyone tells you that Steve Raucci’s activities were a wild aberration and there was no way anyone could have known what he was doing, don’t believe him. As I’ve said before, Raucci was part ...............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01100
So Mr. Strock is saying that Raucci's job was 'created'. Gee, doesn't that sound like Ed Kosiur's 'created' position too? No civil service test required, huh? (dontcha love unions?)
I'm just waiting for the democratic dynasty to fall just like Rome did. It is inevitable.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The woods are on fire and these idiots run for re-election!
Only in Schenectady Benny!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
They will walk into power because "They care about the kids."
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Every County Krat from Scary Gary, Son of Sam, to Nisky Bruce are shoving Mrs. Linda Bellick down the City sheeple's throats-for a 3rd term! If she had a clue, we'd have seen it before now. She is also still "committed"!
Of course, she never heard of the Mad Bomber and voted to give him a full retirement! It's a bit harder to be re-elected when you have well funded, popular opponents. No more free passes. Did you hear the OTHER incumbent is leaving to watch his kids? -ROTFLMAO-Yes only in Schenectady-the worst school bored in this State.
The real sad part is that there is no one stepping up to the plate to change things. So WHO is the alternative? We all know what is wrong.....but what and most importantly WHO will take over and fix it?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
PDQ AKA MACEJKA. I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT DID YOU OR YOUR BIG DADDY DO WHEN YOU FOUND OUT CONSTANTINO WAS ROBBING THE TAXPAYERS? NOTHING. WHAT DID YOU OR YOUR BIG DADDY DO WHEN YOU HEARD FROM TAXPAYERS THEIR ASSESSMENT WAS WRONG? NOTHING. WHAT DID YOU OR YOUR BIG DADDY DO WHEN YOU LOST YOUR STATE JOB BECAUSE YOU WERE INVESTIGATED BY THE STATE INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR GAMBLING AND THREATENING PEOPLE TO PAY YOU? OH RIGHT. YOU GOT YOUR DEMGUYS TO GIVE YOU A JOB IN ROTTERDAM TOWN GOVERNMENT. YOU DEMGUYS TRIED THIS FBI THING FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS TO TRY AND DEFEAT ANYONE YOU DISAGREED WITH. FROM WOODWARD TO SIGNORE. MAYBE YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SHOULD FEAR THE AUTHORITIES? HOW BAD YOU MESSING UP GUILDERLAND TAXPAYERS?
HeHeHe If you only knew WILLIAM Your empire is crumbling and you concern yourself with attacking Sally and me. Hmmmmm maybe we hit a nerve there Pauly Shore. You are sadly mistaken and its not fair to assume I am someone other than a spouse of a former, future and present elected official. You poor pitiful louse. You owe a big time apology to PDQ and Sally. Putrid hate spewing from the typical Woodweird and Signore boosters!!! Ronnie Eggman do you here me????
Logged
The woods are on fire and these idiots run for re-election!
