Kings Park, New York 11754

Councilman Thomas McCarthy

99 West Main Street February 20, 2009

Smithtown, New York 11754

Re: Councilman Thomas “Esposito” McCarthy Will Seek Re-Election?

Dear Councilman McCarthy:

Newsday reports that you will seek re-election to the Smithtown Council. Among the things you should be ready to explain are the following:

In 1999 you publicly praised former Councilman Michael Hollander saying, “he’s the real Republican.” A few years later, Hollander pled guilty to Grand Larceny.

In 2004 you obtained a bogus opinion from Supervisor Patrick Vecchio’s Ethics Board saying that it was just fine for you to vote on a condemnation project on Southern Boulevard even though your partner Frank Esposito would benefit thereby.

In 2005 you lamented the re-election loss of your running mate, Edmund “Blue Chip Ed” Lynch who was Smithtown’s Highway Superintendent. As reported to you personally in writing, Lynch took in $186,000 in campaign contributions and spent $176,000 on a personal lifestyle worthy of a prince. On Election night you told the press that Lynch lost because of all baseless newspapers stories. Earlier, after Lynch had been exposed as a thief in Newsday and the local papers you appeared with Lynch on the steps of Town Hall endorsing him for re-election. In June 2007 Lynch pled guilty to Grand Larceny and Offering a False for Filing.

At the end of 2006, you, Vecchio and Council Members Edward Wehrheim and Patricia Biancaniello allowed the town’s Chief Building Inspector, Robert Bonerba, to slip out the back door of the Building Department with a pension knowing that the District Attorney had issued a subpoena for Bonerba’s Financial Disclosure Statements the previous September 18^th. On those statements Bonerba pleaded the Fifth Amendment. What are you and your cohorts going to say if someone – let’s say Bonerba for a hypothetical – pleads guilty to felonies and, as part of his deal, fesses up to all his dealings with you and the rest in open court, particularly that pension caper? Been there, done it many times, Tom.

For more than 10 years you were liaison to the Building Department. You practically moved your bed into the Planning Department. A look at “Friends of Tom McCarthy” shows the megabucks that you have obtained from builders and developers that do not even come from Smithtown. When you were not in the Planning and Building Departments throwing your big mouth and your weight around you were over at 59 Landing Avenue --- the business office of your partner, Frank Esposito who last year pled guilty to bribing Bonerba.

Some election cycles are ho-hum. Some are more fun than a barrel full of political pantloads. And speaking of pantloads, what does the current Smithtown Republican Chairman have to justify your designation? McCarthy, you have a lot of explaining to do.

Yours truly,

Lawrence N. Gray, Esq.