From: http://www.buffalonews.com/city/comm...icle380947.ece
A politically active West Seneca resident has filed a lawsuit calling for the removal of the town’s supervisor and comptroller for “maladministration and misconduct” relating to town finances and politics.
Daniel T. Warren alleges that the misuse of town credit cards by the service organization AmeriCorps occurred because of auditing and financial recording failures by Town Comptroller Robert J. Bielecki and a lack of oversight by Supervisor Wallace C. Piotrowski.
“Were those issues in the past administration? Absolutely,” Warren said. “But guess what? They continued on in the current administration.”
Warren bases his case on a state comptroller’s report released in September, minutes from Town Board meetings and recent Buffalo News articles. The state report described misuse of town credit cards by AmeriCorps employees and improper oversight by town officials from January 2006 to January 2010. Piotrowski and Bielecki took office January 2008.
Piotrowski and Bielecki declined to comment on the suit but, in statements, labeled the case a “frivolous proceeding” that would waste taxpayer dollars. They said Warren has a record of filing “baseless lawsuits for political purposes.”