In part, Borek said, “The District Attorney’s Office will ensure that all matters involving allegations of fraud related to veterans are thoroughly investigated.” Borek told CNN his office doesn’t normally comment on the existence or non-existence of investigations. Orange County Chief Assistant District Attorney Christopher P. The office of Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus referred CNN to the county district attorney’s office and the New York State attorney general’s office. “I never said that and I never did that,” Toney-Finch told CNN. Toney-Finch allegedly took them back to the shelter once the meeting was done and told some that she was going to come back on Friday with the money, the men said. Migrants are staying on school grounds, in hotels or at police stations in several states - and some residents are furious The Migrants placed at the Gymnasium were removed around 2:00AM to unknown location in Staten Island after the City got wind of the planned protest. Students and parents from Public School MS 577 walk march around the school located at N 5th Street and Roebling Streets protesting Migrants being housed at the School gymnasium.
If they weren’t comfortable speaking, Toney-Finch told them to say they suffered from PTSD and couldn’t speak, the two men said. When the meal was over, Toney-Finch allegedly rounded them up in the parking lot and told them they were instead going to meet with a local member of the chamber of commerce, with instructions that they were to say they were veterans and they were being displaced to make room for asylum seekers. She found 15 volunteers and took them to a nearby diner where she bought them all the food and alcohol they wanted, they added. Terry and William told CNN that associates of Toney-Finch allegedly went to a homeless shelter trying to round up volunteers to go with her to Connecticut to speak with a local politician. “No one blames the asylum seekers for what’s happening,” Maher told CNN at the time. “They basically told the vets they had one day to leave,” Maher said on Monday. He previously told CNN that some veterans who were staying at the Crossroads Hotel were told on May 7 they had to leave the hotel on short notice. Maher, a Republican lawmaker who is also a volunteer spokesperson for the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, which helps veterans in need of living assistance, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “I never promised to pay anybody,” Toney-Finch said, adding that she only told State Assemblyman Brian Maher that she had homeless veterans who were displaced, not that it was because of asylum seekers. Toney-Finch denied the allegations to CNN, saying she never offered money to homeless men to say they had to leave the Crossroads Hotel in the Town of Newburgh. Now they took the carrot away and we’re angry,” William said. “They dangled a carrot in front of an animal and they led us. If they were uncomfortable saying that, William said, they were told they should say they suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. They scammed us.”Īnother man who only gave his first name, William, said the group was allegedly told to say they were military veterans who were pushed out of their hotel rooms. “It’s messed up how can they do that to us. Terry and others identified Toney-Finch as the person who allegedly offered money and never paid up. “We were scammed,” Douglas Terry, 55, said about Sharon Toney-Finch, a nonprofit leader who houses the homeless. New York City plans to temporarily house migrants in hotels in other counties.
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