Investigations: Even More South Blooming Grove Voter Fraud, Tony Cardone's Malignant Soul
Scandals erupt all over Southern Orange County as fraud continues in SBG and sore losers exact their revenge in Monroe.
Pictured Above: 1233 Route 208 in South Blooming Grove. As you can see, it’s advertised as a yeshiva. While investigating the property, The Monroe Gazette’s reporters were stopped by a man identifying himself as “Asher.” Asher informed The Monroe Gazette that both 1231 and 1233 Route 208 can be rented at a rate of “$5,000 per weekend.” 1233 is available “when the boys are away.”
We asked Asher for a card, but he said to look up the address online to get in touch with him. We also made sure to get a picture of his license plate. For the record, 1232 Route 208 is owned by 1232 NY 208 LLC, which is alleged to be owned by South Blooming Grove’s village executive — and actual mayor — Joel M. Stern.
Below is the yeshiva at 17 Sleepy Hollow Road. Both of these buildings are at the center of a lawsuit that will determine who your Orange County District 5 legislature is going to be. In the last photo, you’ll see a bus signaling on Mountain Road to drop off children at the yeshiva at 17 Sleepy Hollow Road on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
Town of Blooming Grove board member and South Blooming Grove Village Planning Board member Simon Schwartz is alleged, along with Joel Stern and other Village Planning Board members, to provide building permits to the yeshiva’s owners at 17 Sleepy Hollow Road in exchange for blank absentee ballots that are filled out by the students at the school. Yeshiva Bnos Ahvra Israel is the reported owner of the 17 Sleepy Hollow Road yeshiva, with its main address listed as 2 Lee Ave., Brooklyn.
According to a lawsuit filed by former Orange County Executive candidate Mike Sussman, on behalf of Democratic challenger Stephanie Powell against Republican Mike Essig and people claiming to live at both addresses, 64 people claimed to be living at 17 Sleepy Hollow Road. One hundred three voters cast absentee ballots using the address of 1233 Route 208.
If this sounds familiar, it should. Joel Stern, Yitzchok “Isaac” Ekstein and associates at the United Jewish Community of Blooming Grove are under an active and open FBI inquiry — according to communications received by The Monroe Gazette between Orange County and the FBI — for allegedly doing the same crime using the 2 Arlington Drive address.
If you’re wondering why the FBI isn’t doing anything, I reached out to their press office for comment on this story. If we hear back, we will let you know.
11.19.25 Update: Statement from the FBI:
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your inquiry. If members of the public have information about suspected criminal activity, we advise them to contact local police or their closest FBI field office. They can also call the FBI tip line at 1800-call-FBI.
Other than that, per longstanding DOJ policy, we cannot confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence of any investigation.
Sincerely,
Office of Public Affairs
FBI New York
The nearest FBI office that covers Orange County is New York City. They can be reached at 212-384-1000. The Monroe Gazette recommends calling the Tip Line and sharing the above information with them concerning 17 Sleepy Hollow and 1233 Route 208 and orchestrated by Joel M. Stern.
Steps For Calling 1800-call-FBI
Press 1 for English
When it asks what kind of crime you’re calling about, say “Election Fraud.”
Press 8 for “Any Other Issue”
Give them your phone number. Confirm by saying Yes
Give them your first name. Confirm by saying Yes.
Give them your last name. Confirm by saying yes.
Give them your birthday. Confirm by saying yes.
Give them your zip code. Confirm by saying yes.
Confirm the State abbreviation is NY
Confirm the spelling of your Town’s name.
Give them your street address. Confirm by saying yes.
You will then be directed to an operator. Tell them you’re calling about an open case involving voter fraud in the Village of South Blooming Grove. It was opened in 2021 concerning the address of 2 Arlington Drive. You are calling to report that the same exact crime by the same exact people may have happened again. Then provide them with the information found in this article concerning 17 Sleepy Hollow and 1233 Route 208.
For those who asked, I don’t have much new to report on the South Blooming Grove election lawsuit. Yes, we are working on it. If you live in South Blooming Grove (you must live within the village boundaries), email us at bjmendelson@duck.com. If you’re wondering why action isn’t happening right now: I will explain as soon as the case is filed. It’s very complicated because New York State does not have a clear procedure when a municipality is allegedly taken over by a real estate developer (Avrum Bur Jakobowitz, Ziggy Brach, Jacob Gold) and their proxies (Joel Stern, Isaac Ekstein) — conduct what could politely be described as a white-collar crime spree. The complaint also alleges an illegitimate election after missing two legally required village elections.
Not a single state agency — from the attorney general to the Division of Election Law Enforcement, to the State Senate (allegedly, according to Isaac Ekstein, State Sen. Skoufis is not upset about the fake election, only that Skoufis was not given a heads-up), to the comptroller, down to the Orange County district attorney — has taken action.
The Comptroller claims that the audit which began in March of 2024, which they refuse to publicly acknowledge in their newsletter, is still ongoing. This is the reason they gave for not releasing any documentation to The Monroe Gazette via FOIL.
There is more news coming on both the alleged illegitimate election and these new allegations of voter fraud. I’ll keep you posted.
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Monroe: What’s Wrong With Your Face, Tony?
You know what’s really funny? OK — it’s not laugh-out-loud funny; it’s more “my God, we’re managed by morons. If I don’t laugh I’ll cry.” During today’s Orange County Sewer District 1 meeting — held in the middle of the afternoon so people couldn’t be in the room to protest being stuck with a $1,000 bill for the next 30 years — Peter Tuohy asked whether funding would be available from the Trump administration to help pay for the new sewer plant.
You mean the same Trump administration that cut SNAP benefits and sent $40 billion to Argentina to prop up wealthy associates who are heavily invested there.
That Trump administration?
The Orange County Sewer District 1 stuff is nutty. Somehow Peter Tuohy got re-elected, but given that his new district contains areas worth investigating for voter fraud, and given that Maria May did not lose by much, I hope she’s looking for the same things Stephanie Powell is — I think she’ll find it.
But we need to turn our attention to another Monroe matter. (Ha — see what I did there? I mentioned the place where the Facebook racists all hang out.)
Before anyone gets on me for swearing, please know that “ratfucking” is a real term and refers to a very specific act of political sabotage. So my use of it here is completely on point.
And no, big brave Salvatore Scancarello did not respond to the above email. He did ask me to “Bring it.” But I guess the Councilman can’t handle what the store has brought him. Of course, this post will be updated if we hear from him, but I imagine it’d be real hard for Mr. Scancarello to type, because penis’s don’t have hands.
My point here is this, a big story is brewing in the Town of Monroe, but you don’t need me to tell you it. You can, and should, watch the first 53 minutes of this meeting, and then the public comment section for yourself:
If you follow my advice, here’s what you’ll see:
Supervisor-elect Maureen Richardson and retiring Town Board member Mary Bingham reviewed the arbitrary, capricious and malicious cuts to the town budget made by outgoing Town Supervisor Tony Cardone, Dorey Ghoul (not a typo) and Sal Scancarello.
Richardson and Bingham then suggested restoring funding to each item; Ghoul, Cardone and Scancarello refused. Please remember this when Scancarello is up for re-election next November — assuming he doesn’t quit the Town Board, which I fully expect. If he does, I want his seat on the Town Board, provided people can come to the podium and harass me the same way I’ve been criticizing them in this publication. It’s only fair.
That said, there is a lot going on here. I am working on a much, much longer post with an audio podcast. You’ll likely see it this weekend.
Right now I am just letting you know the following:
-Yes. They (Cardone, Ghoul, Phallus) can do that to the budget. And yes, it’s bad for town taxpayers on multiple levels, which we will explain in our story. (This also applies to the Town of Woodbury and Calore-Luciani’s recent ratfucking. We’ll get to that soon too.)
-The Monroe Gazette spent most of the day, when we weren’t roaming around South Blooming Grove, talking to municipal attorneys about potential remedies. While Richardson, Stephens and Rivera can reverse the budget cuts, the tax levy is the tax levy — village residents would essentially be taxed twice for no reason. It also means that to pay for anything beyond the budget, money would have to come out of the reserve fund. Taxes would have to go up to pay for literally anything we need, like the IMA with the Village Police Department. In fact, Cardone, Ghoul, and Phallus took out ALL of the money from the police line, just to make getting this agreement in place even more difficult. Probably so that Ghoul, Cardone, and Mystery Friend can run again next time saying, “Maureen raised your taxes!”
The Monroe Gazette, working on your behalf, contacted the comptroller’s office and received only the standard response: “We’ll take this into consideration when we determine who to audit in the future.” Unsatisfied, we asked what other remedies might be available to residents and have not yet received an answer. We also reached out to the attorney general’s Public Integrity Bureau and filed a complaint against Tony Cardone, Dorey Houle and Sal Scancarello. If you wish to provide additional information to the attorney general’s office about these three and the 2026 budgeting process, call (800) 771-7755 and provide complaint No. 1-1152673472.
People are pissed. As they should be.
I’ll see you this weekend with a much longer thing to explain what you can do about it.