Rodney now works as special assistant for the state’s Dept of Environmental Conservation,
Another brother Joel, 27, is the majority leader of the New York City Council and the chairman of the council’s Health Committee.
Mother Blanche Rivera is the district manager of Community Board 6 in the Bronx.
Father Jose Rivera is a state assemblyman, representing District 78 in the Bronx, and was once Bronx Democratic Party chairman.
Brother Rodney Rivera lied in bankruptcy filing, records show. Rodney lied, he told the federal government he was flat broke and jobless when he filed for bankruptcy in 2004 — even though he had a $46,000-a-year, taxpayer-funded govt job with Nassau County, according to public records.
In his June 14, 2004, Chapter 7 filing, Rodney Rivera was deeply in debtand looking to wipe out $25,398--consumer debt that stuck the rest of with his bills. Rodney falsified federal documents, and lied to bankruptcy court, stating he was “unemployed. He checked “none” on a form where debtors are required to list gross income earned for the two years prior to the filing. Using his political connections, three months earlier, Rivera, 42, had landed a govt job, records show.
On March 15, 2004, Rivera was making $48,000-a-year as assistant to the Director of Constituent Affairs in then-County Executive Tom Suozzi’s office, according to records obtained by media.
Rivera — whose sex-starved, scandal-scarred sister, Naomi, is under investigation by federal, state and city authorities is suspected of misusing public funds. Rodney could be prosecuted for committing several felonies by deliberately making false statements or omitting crucial financial information in bankruptcy papers.
In his bankruptcy filing, the married father of three claimed to live a stunningly economical life, with no monthly living expenses — no rent, mortgage, utility, phone, medical, dental, transportation, insurance or clothing costs.
His only monthly financial obligation, Rivera claimed, was a $350 car payment. His only asset, he declared, was $500 in clothing.
Rodney Rivera’s wife, Jessica Letterel-Rivera, filed her own individual petition the same day as her husband, to get out from under $25,841 in consumer debt. She, too, claimed to be broke and unemployed, with no assets and no income for at least 2 1/2 years. She listed her monthly expenses as $250 for electricity and heat, $98 for her home phone, $52 for a cellphone, $1,000 for food and $630 for her car and auto insurance.
The couple’s Elmont, LI, home is owned by Rivera parents---his politically powerful dad, state Assemblyman José Rivera, and his mother, Blanche, district manager of Community Board 6 in the Bronx. Between the two filings, the couple listed $51,239 in debt. Both claimed to have no cash, nothing in the bank, no retirement or investment funds and no furniture, computers or other household items.
Rodney Rivera owed nearly $5,000 to Sam Ash and another music store, $14,000 on a Mitsubishi car loan and more than $6,000 to Discover and another credit card for “consumer goods.” His wife’s debts included nearly $10,500 to Discover, $4,400 to another credit card, $7,700 to Mitsubishi, $126 to BP/Amoco and $71 to America Online. Both bankruptcies went through in October 2004.
Rodney Rivera continued to work for the Nassau County Executive’s Office — with a salary hike to $62,400 — until the end of January 2007, records show, when he then got a job with the county’s Office of Housing and Intergovernmental Affairs. In September that year, he got a $65,000-a-year job gathering newspaper clippings for the state Senate’s Democratic Conference but was fired in April 2010.
Rodney now works as special assistant for the state’s Dept of Environmental Conservation, raking in a $74,000 salary. Neither he nor his bankruptcy lawyer, Nancy Martorelli, returned media calls.
L/E should investigate the latino criminal uderworld-—parasites undermining the US political system——perhaps falsifying official govt documents to hide the actual use of tax dollars. L/E might find the latino underworld doled out tax funds to finance drug habits.
OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT: Bronx political cabal-— latino underworld of parasites leeching off taxpayers.
<><> Non-profit Bronx Council for Economic Development——sucked up millions of tax dollars; where is the money?
Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><> Naomi Rivera, 47, NY state Assemblyman (D-Bronx); accused of looting non-profit from state tax coffers;
Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><>José Rivera, 74——Naomi’s father, state assemblyman (D-Fordham); may have funded campaigns with n/p govt funds;
Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><> Joel Rivera, 33-—Naomi’s brother, NY City Council majority leader; rigged 2000 special election to replace his father; investigations may uncover campaigns financed with n/p govt funds;
<><> Rodney Rivera, 42—Naomi’s brother; runs Kameleon, a so-called event consulting group; sucked up $40,000 from Naomi’s non-profit; parasite also sucks up $74,000 annual as “special assistant” for state Environmental Conservation Department;
<><> Roberto Ramirez, 62——Bronx party boss in collusion with José Rivera; founded the non-profite Bronx Council for
Economic Development, now controlled and funded by the Riveras; may have funded campaigns with n/p govt fund;
Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><> Antonio Rodriguez, 44—Naomi’s ex-husband; sucked up $95,000 annual with the City Counci in collusion with Christine Quinn. In 2011, Rodriguez sucked up $109,000 as the City Council’s senior graphic designer; may have funded campaigns with n/p govt funds; Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><> Tommy Torres-—listed by Rivera on state documents as her full-time “community-relations director” collecting weekly $1,100 govt paychecks AT THE SAME TIME state DOE records list Torres as a “full-time” $78,885-a-year gym teacher, and another $10,928 as head coach and athletic director of the Brooklyn Grand Street Campus;
<><> Vincent Pinela-—ex-lover Rivera installed at Bronx n/p-—pocketed hefty salary and perks for “servicing” her 24/7.
<><> Hispanic Federation sucked up $22 million tax dollars;
Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><> Luis Miranda, Hispanic Federation co-founder/onetime president; where is the $22 million tax dollars: Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><> Roberto Ramirez, former Bronx Democratic Party boss.
Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><>Private political consulting firm, the MirRam Group; Miranda and Ramirez are paid by the Hispanic Federation and are hired by vote-crazed politicians who steer taxpayer money to the nonprofit Hispanic Federation; where is the $22 million tax dollars? Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><> The self-serving Hispanic Federation paid $681,644 between 1999-2008 to MirRam and to Miranda-Towns (a firm registered to Luis Miranda and his wife), for “consulting.”
<><><> In a shocking quid pro quo, the collusive Hispanic Federation paid MirRam $88,000 to survey Latinos
on the mayor’s race at the same time, MirRam was paid $1.37 million by one-time latino mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer.
<><> Giancarlo Fret-—Naomi’s son-—subsisted on monies from the Rivera crime family-—were tax monies used for drugs?
<><>NOTE Naomi’s brother, Joel Rivera, is married to Valerie Vazquez, director of communications and public affairs for the NYC Board of Elections....and could easily have facilitated payments to Giancarlo Fret disguised as a $10.34 an hour “temporary” clerk’s job at the Bronx Board of Elections from 2004 to 2005. Were tax dollars used to buy drugs?
<><> Lorraine Cortez-Vazquez, a former president of the tax-funded Hispanic Federation—recepient of some $22 million in public funds.
Cotrez-Vasquez was slobbering at the tax trough: (1) an ex-board member of Naomi Rivera’s non-profit-— the tax-funded Bronx Council for Economic Development, (2) headed the NY state Dept of State, and, (3) former president of the tax-sucking Hispanic Federation, (4) paid Naomi’s rapper son $22,335 tax dollars (that we know of) wgenever he shpwed up as a “student assistant” at the NY state Department in 2008 and part of 2009.
Cuomo is hot on the trail to clean up the cesspool of NY politics before he makes his run for the Democrat nomination in 2016. My bet is on the crooks, because they also know where his dirty laundry is hidden.