07/26/2021
What began as exposing a single $240,00 surety bond that the Town of Plainfield accepted through its unlicensed Town Engineer and uncertified zoning officer back in 2012 had lead now to a much larger problem / crime that was being committed in Plainfield by the Sweet administration (2007-2027).
1). Last year after much delay because of the Coronavirus issues the person who provided the $240,000 to Julian Development towards the Brunswick Mills project was charged and sentenced for his role in providing the Julian’s and other shady contractors by the FBI on other projects.
Leo M. Rush admitted guilt and received his sentencing which included restitution to the victims of over $2 million dollars. Due to his age and faulted health he was able to ward off prison time.
2). Following the “ Trail of Red Flags” of the Julian’s I found that the Town of Plainfield’s employees was not the only ones that took the bait that the Julian’s were giving Plainfield as far as who they were able to bribe and BS.
In early 2007 I was asked to assist the Town of Fairfield’s,CT taxpayers to look into some shady contracts that the Julian’s had with town employees of Fairfield,CT.
What I uncovered and it has not been spoken about in local media due to the embarrassing situation for Fairfield is that the Julian’s gave Fairfield officials at least 8 fraudulent surety bonds that were supplied by Leo Rush.
Several of those fraudulent surety bonds supplied by the Julian’s were related to federally funded RFP projects for work performed in Fairfield.
By law any municipal that accepts any surety bond must go through the due diligence process known as the “ Little Miller Act” or in some cases on the bigger projects “ The Miller Act.
If you follow any newspaper (other the the Norwich Bulletin) you could read over 60 news articles that explains the fraud uncovered in Fairfield.
As of today there are about 6 town officials of Fairfield ( along with Jason Julian) who have been arrested have been charged with the crime of giving Fairfield a fraudulent surety bonds along with the largest environmental contamination issues currently along the East Coast.
As is the claim of the police, state and federal agencies against cluster of “bad actors” in Fairfield for dumping contaminated soils that has affected over 60 properties in Fairfield.
Cost to perform repairs in Fairfield are targeting over $20 million dollars.
It is my claims that I have submitted to state and federal officials (2017) that just as the Julian’s were caught dumping contaminated soils out of Fairfield’s municipality’s yard to re-sell to Fairfield’s taxpayers that they were also importing twice as much contaminated soils to Fairfield under the licenses they held as licensed contaminated soil haulers rather then to dispose the contamination properly.
The Town of Plainfield through its unlicensed and unprofessional Engineering and Planning officials not only allowed the Julian’s to remove aggregate from he Brunswick Mills as the site was to be restored during the day but in July 2016 the Julian’s and Plainfield’s officials were caught trying to “ desolve” up to 68,000 cubic yards of contaminated soils that the Julian’s contaminated soils (assisted by the unlicensed Zoning officer Ryan Brais) by bringing heavy equipment to push the 68,000 off a cliff into the wetlands area along the Moosup Rivers edge against the property owners consent.
The day that was exposed the thrust of our claims. How truly corrupt the Sweet administration truly was.
To date we have issued invoices to Plainfield of the cost that exceeded $1 million dollars and that was just to pull the suspected contaminated soils out of the wetlands which now ruined the possibility of rebuilding the FERC licensed hydro project that was attached to the same property.
No response ever received by Plainfield’s officials.
The CTDEEP and the Fed’s are well aware that since 2017 I have demanded that the Town of Plainfield and CTDEEP perform a complete environmental study of the Brunswick Mills for traces of the suspected contaminated soils that the abutters of the Brunswick Mills have talked about repeatedly as they would report trucks entering my property in the middle of the night without our consent or knowledge.
Through the time period I committed to the redevelopment of the Brunswick Mills in 2008 I finally got the Julian’s removed frim my property against the wishes of the Sweet’s corrupt administration in 2017. My companies had sued the Julian’s repeatedly in State and Federal Courts.
We never lost one challenge but spent hundreds of thousands of defending our business.
How did Sweet’s administration handle all the scams that were being dished out to blow me out of the water?
At your expense as the taxpayers the Sweet administration put together three separate fraudulent property tax sales (2008-2019) to separate me from the Brunswick Mills project.
They were fraudulent in nature because they all contained the same flaw in language. I was being taxed for owning an abutting 6 acre property that was never cleaned up by the EPA for contamination.
In the most recent property tax sale (2019) knowing that the Julian’s and Plainfield’s officials re-polluted the Brunswick Mills I wanted nothing more to do with the property that the EPA had already paid $3.4 million dollars to clean up in 2004.
This update brings us now to the biggest ongoing federal and state investigation that is still under heavy review by law enforcement agencies.
a). A tip of the iceberg will expose how Plainfield’s Chairperson of the Planning and Zoning Commission had personally profited from every remediation project in Plainfield since at least 2003. This included all work performed at the InterRoyal Mills and the Brunswick Mills.
Recently, Meyer, Sweet and many former and current officials of Plainfield were interviewed by the Connecticut’s State’s Attorney’s Office and Connecticut’s State Police’s Major Crimes Unit over the past year.
None of this is going away anytime soon.
John Meyer had his hands not only in ever form of remediation but also in the creation of wording each contract so that he could direct and profit from each remediation project within Plainfield.
b). While a much deeper investigation is taking place to expose the balance of the fraud there are those who have opened up a separate investigation of the Region 1 EPA for their lack of enforcement over the past 14 years.
The EPA and Plainfield had signed up with me in a binding agreement to assist me on the remediation of the Brunswick Mills.
That turned out to bring a rouse. Over 600 email complaints sent to the EPA over a 14 period and absolutely no assistance from the EPA.
This all is a ongoing investigation that will show so much more corruption that your heads will spin.
A book is expected to also work its way out of all this that is / has been exposed. The title is from “ Mill Town’s to Mineral Towns.
It will expose how municipalities are allowing the the selling off of the municipalities aggravate assets so that the municipal officials all can profit by while driving real estate values into the ground.
Over the next month my attorneys and I are modifying a multi million dollar Civil Rights Section 1983 lawsuit against the Town of Plainfield and its past administration.
We expect to file our complaints and charges soon which will now include Breach of Contact/ RICO violations and consorting with criminals to trash a federal agreement with my company to redevelop the Brunswick Mills.
(To be continued).
