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Vol. 14, No 33 3 AUGUST 16 - 22, 2017
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Library is overdue
Criminal
contempt
Plattekill still out deposit money for a deal that fell through
case in court
ADA describes path of false
kidnapping and rape case
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
On Tuesday August 8, Amber
Malagoli, 22, of New Windsor, was back
in Marlborough Town Court before
Judge Daniel Jackson to answer to the
charges of Criminal Contempt in the 1st
Degree and Perjury in the 2nd Degree
stemming from an August 1 incident
when she falsely reported that she had
been kidnapped and raped after being
found on the side of Quaker Hill Road in
Milton just past dawn.
ADA Daniel Martuscello said the
August 8 court date was for a preliminary
hearing on the Malagoli matter. He said
her attorney, David Castagna, waived the
time to hold the hearing.
“When someone is charged with a
felony, a preliminary hearing is supposed
to be held within so many hours of the
arraignment, but the defendant can waive
that,” Martuscello said. “So she was
remanded and is back up at the [Ulster
County] jail. Her attorney waived that
time period and he is possibly looking to
get the defendant into a mental health
facility for treatment.”
Martuscello said Castagna “can make
a proposal to the court and to myself as to
what he has lined up. The court will make
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The library board paid a deposit of $9,250 on a parcel that it was considering purchasing in 2014.
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
At last week’s meeting of the
Plattekill Library Board of Trustees,
President Lynn Ridgeway said the board
has still not received a check for $9,250
that they requested from Victor Nemeth,
the owner of the Cider Mill property on
Route 32. The library had paid him this
amount as a deposit when they were
considering purchasing his parcel for
a new library. She indicated that this
would continue to be discussed with
their own attorney, however the board
has been advised by counsel that they
would end up spending far more trying
to recover their money through the
courts.
In early 2014 the board sent Nemeth
the deposit check, which he cashed.
However, by November 2014 Nemeth had
changed his mind and sent a check of
his own back to the library for the stated
amount, indicating that the deal was off.
Email records show that the check was
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placed in a folder but Ridgeway insists
no one gave instructions to do this.
“I didn’t tell anybody to do that and
this board did not tell me to do that,” she
insisted.
The record shows that the attorney
for the library board, in response to a
query from a board member, said the
board told him to place the check in a
folder. There is no mention of this in the
library board minutes.
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