South Blooming Grove Allegedly Fabricates Meeting Minutes to Hide Election Fraud

Alleged phantom meetings and last-minute minutes suggest South Blooming Grove officials may have moved the village election to Oct. 22, 2025, without proper public notice or required documentation.

Pictured Above: Disgraced Clarkstown justice-turned South Blooming Grove village attorney Scott Ugell, took time out of his busy schedule of doing nothing for his $75,000-a-year job with the village to hang out with old friend, Congressman Mike Lawler, this Summer.

Mr. Ugell, according to “Village Executive” Joel Stern, is said to have informed Mr. Stern that the Village of South Blooming Grove could move its elections to October 2025 from March 2026, pending a public referendum.

Something tells me that, at the end of this South Blooming Grove story, it’s not going to be Joel Stern and Yitzchok “Isaac” Ekstein that go to jail — just look at the sweetheart deal Shalom Lamm got for conspiracy to corrupt the electoral process — but it’s going to be people like Ugell and village clerk Kerry Dougherty.

In Ugell’s case, the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct told The Monroe Gazette that if Ugell faces criminal charges, it would likely reopen its own investigation into him that was …