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PRESORTED STANDARD PERMIT #3036 WHITE PLAINS NY Vol. VI, No. XXXV Thursday, September 4, 2014 • $1.00 Westchester’s Most Influential Weekly MIDDLE EAST FORUM CHRIS ROSTENBERG Manic in Manhattan Part VIII Page 8 BLUE TRUTH PAM YOUNG There Are No Disorganized Spiders Page 8 JOHN F. MCMULLEN The Way It Was - and Is Page 10 JOHN SIMON Golda Meir An Inn Worthy of Patronage Was Right - Page 10 Part I of IV SHERIF AWAD Det.Det. 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The Guardian YPD Det. Montero Files Legal Suit to Restore His Membership will strive to report fairly, and objec- tively, reliable information without favor or compromise. Our first duty will be to the PEOPLE’S RIGHT with The Yonkers Police Benevolent Association TO KNOW, by the exposure of truth, By HEZI ARIS against Montero, a 26-year veteran of without fear or hesitation, no matter When Montero criticized Hartnett for the YPD and the Yonkers PBA, contin- cutting several police units, including the where the pursuit may lead, in the The Yonkers Tribune has ued unabated and with earnest as Olson domestic violence unit, burglary unit, and finest tradition of FREEDOM OF learned that Yonkers Police conjured up false charges against Montero the community unit that served the public THE PRESS. Detective Ray Montero that improperly would have Montero ousted through the Yonkers Police Athletic League, The Guardian will cover news and is seeking to restore his from the PBA. Since its inception over 100 Olson acquiesced and supported Harnett’s events relevant to residents and busi- membership with the plus years ago, the PBA had never ousted cuts without challenge. nesses all over Westchester County. Police Association of the City of Yonkers, As a weekly, rather than focusing a member from its ranks. For those PBA Montero’s criticism earned greater Inc., better known as the Yonkers Police members who voted to oust Montero on on the immediacy of delivery more Benevolent Association (PBA). Montero hostility from the three “renegade amigos”, associated with daily journals, we will falsehoods, knowingly or suspecting the Olson, Moran, and Mueller. The pushback asserts he was wrongfully ousted from the bullying tactics against Montero were ille- instead seek to provide the broader, PBA due to political differences with, among was so great, that Olson contrived to exclude more comprehensive, chronological gally conducted only besmirched themselves others, the Yonkers PBA President Keith Montero from meetings at Yonkers City step-by-step accounting of events, by submitting to the false, erroneous, and Olson, and “Olson’s cronies”. The “cronies” Hall and in Albany, despite, as PBA Vice- enlightened with analysis, where trumped up charges. Those alleged charges Olson, among others in the Yonkers Police are revealed herein. Notice of Petition was President, having the right to attend. Olson appropriate. seem to have been used like a “beard” to Department Gang Unit as a detective, cir- with the Chief Clerk Westchester Supreme further contrived to assert Montero was legitimize unproven allegations in a char- cumstances would come to sour by late From amongst journalism’s classic and County Courts on August 13, 2014. In derelict to his duties as PBA Vice-President acter assassination intended to silence an 2009. Montero was determined to seek the key-words: who, what, when, where, the Matter of the Application of Raymond despite Montero complying with all regula- why, and how, the why and how will adversary that maintained protocol and position of President of the Yonkers PBA yet Montero, Petitioner for a Judgment tions and protocols. drive our pursuit. We will use our more standards to which every officer is sworn to chose to run for the office of vice-president Pursuant to Article 78 of the Civil Practice Olson had Mueller call Montero abundant time, and our resources, to uphold. in deference to and respect for Olson. Yet Law and Rules –against – Police Association into Mueller’s Office in July 2012 where get past the initial ‘spin’ and ‘damage Det. Montero is highly decorated. that was not good enough for Olson, Olson of the City of Yonkers, Inc., a/k/a Yonkers Mueller was admonished to cease criticizing control’ often characteristic of imme- He has earned the prestigious Meritorious wanted Michael Farina as his v-p. Montero’s Hartnett and threatened that if he did not, diate news releases, to reach the very Police Benevolent Association, respondent. Service Award, three PBA Presidential campaign effort earned only the animosity Montero would be transferred out of the heart of the matter: the truth. We will Montero contends that “Olson and Awards for Unit Citations, at minimum nine of Olson’s admitted best friends: Sergeant take our readers to a point of under- his cronies” conducted unauthorized inves- Special Investigations Unit. Commendations in Career, six Certificates of Brian Moran and Lieutenant John Mueller, standing and insight which cannot be tigations of him, trumped up charges of When Mueller and Moran learned Excellent Police Work, and numerous letters whose animosity grew as Montero openly obtained elsewhere. misconduct about him over incorrect char- that Montero was considering to seek the of appreciation from Police Commissioners, criticized Olson for his pattern of kowtow- acterizations of his overtime that are false, office of PBA President, Olson, Moran, To succeed, we must recognize from and the Westchester County Journal News ing to then Yonkers Police Commissioner among other allegations. To which there is and Mueller conducted an unauthorized the outset that bigger is not neces- Award for investigative work. Edmund Hartnett. Montero expressed his sarily better. And, furthermore, we no proof. investigation concerning overtime slips The legal suit points out that despite concerns specifically when the PBA mem- will acknowledge that we cannot The political assassination campaign submitted by Montero. The contention be all things to all readers. We must having worked amicably with Det. Keith bership would be coerced to concede to by Olson, Moran, and Mueller that the carefully balance the presentation of RADIO Hartnett, especially