More Details Emerge About Federal Subpoena

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a subpoena to the Town of Patterson commanding the deliverance of "all records maintained by the building, zoning, and planning departments" relating to the home of New York State Senator Vincent Leibell. This includes all "permits, applications, correspondence, inspection reports, drawings, engineering reports, and records of violations" dating from January 1, 2003 to the present. The subpoena commands the items be delivered by June 23, 2010. This information was obtained via Freedom of Information Act request this week.

The records will be delivered to Assistant U.S. Attorney Perry Carbone. Mr. Carbone, represented the government in the successful corruption and tax fraud case against former NYC police commissioner Bernard Kerik.

The subpoena in Patterson came just weeks after subpoenas of the county government as part of a still unknown federal grand jury investigation. As was first reported in the June 3 Courier, according to an anonymous source close to the matter, a U.S. attorney had requested, and received, unredacted copies of invoices and vouchers “associated with Santangelo, Randazzo & Mangone as a [law] firm and as sole practitioners.”

At the time, Vincent Tamagna, chairman of the County Legislature, told the Courier that Putnam County had been subpoenaed to “produce certain specified records to the Grand Jury for the Southern District of New York” that included invoices and “how the county procured outside legal services.”

Additionally, there have been reports that the Carmel Town Hall was served with subpoenas in recent weeks. It is not known whether these three incidents are connected. The Courier will continue to follow these matters closely.