“Upon learning about these accusations, leadership should have suspended this former employee pending an investigation into the matter,” County Legislator James Nolan
By Dan Murphy
County Legislator James Nolan released a statement on April 20 calling for the resignation of Board of Legislators Chair Catherine Borgia and Westchester Public Safety Commissioner Terrance Raynor. Nolan is calling for both county officials to step down after the mislanding of the Anand Singh underage sex sting scandal.
“After more and more details have come out about Westchester County Board of Legislators Chairwoman Borgia’s and Westchester County Department of Public Safety’s handling of the situation of sexual misconduct allegations against a former Board employee; I am calling on the resignation of Chairwoman Catherine Borgia and of Public Safety Commissioner Raynor because of the mishandling of the situation.
“The multiple reports surfacing concerning sexual misconduct surrounding a former legislative staffer are horrific and could potentially demonstrate that some elected legislators put protecting their own employees above protecting the public.
“This legislative assistant drove over three hours seeking one thing, a sexual encounter with a young 14-year-old child. That is nothing short of appalling and most importantly, predatory.
“This is not political rhetoric and should not be politicized for any person’s benefit. It is simply the facts concerning what transpired.
“Upon learning about these accusations, leadership should have suspended this former employee pending an investigation into the matter,” stated Nolan, who serves as one of two republican-conservative members on the 17 members county board.
Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah, and the FBI, are said to be investigating the Singh affair. DA Rocah ordered legislators and their staffs to preserve all materials related to county government.
There are still missing pieces to this story one week after the news that Anand Singh, an employee of the Westchester County Board of Leiglsators, engaged in a sex fueled conversation with who he thought was a 14-year old girl. Singh traveled 2.5 hours to Newark from his Westchester home to meet the girl for a rendezvous. Employees of OBL Global confronted Singh on camera and he quickly left.
Singh has not yet been charged with a crime.
Right now, the only legislators that we know of who knew about Singh’s livestream video in December 2002 were Legislator Colin Smith and Board Chair Catherine Borgia.. The BOL Clerk was also notified at that time.
