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    The Noble RenardAllie Jones
    2/24/16 1:05pm

    Demeza Delhomme is a corrupt, racist, antisemitic psychopath who believes that he can rule Spring Valley the same way as if he was a corrupt mayor back in Haiti. The village has essentially descended into complete and utter chaos. The village’s Haitian-majority population clashes heavily with the spillover of Orthodox Jews from nearby villages (part of the East Ramapo school district includes Spring Valley, and that’s the school district cataloged by This American Life for its fuckery) and there’s also a large Central American community as well with its own interests.

    As mentioned, the King of the Village outburst is infamous. This transcript (audio is included) shows how fucking nuts Delhomme is:

    “Fonvil,” Delhomme says, “The supervisor works for (explicative) me. He ain’t working for you”

    Trustee Emilia White interrupts. “You’re cursing again,” she says.

    “Sorry,” Delhomme says. “Sorry. Sorry.”

    An argument ensues. Delhomme stands and waves his hands.

    “You heard from me,” he shouts. “That’s the king! That’s the king! You heard it from the king! The king get it from the soldiers!”

    “Who is the king?” Fonvil asks.

    “I am!” Delhomme shouts.

    “King of what?” Fonville asks.

    “King of the village,” Delhomme says.

    Several of the trustees break into laughter.

    About five seconds later, Fonvil asks, “So what are we doing here? What are the trustees doing here?”

    “To vote and get your tail out of here,” Delhomme replies. “The mayor runs the village. Not you.”

    Delhomme has also previously been jailed for contempt of court for refusing a court order to allow the community center to be opened for its use as a day camp.

    His antisemitism is legendary too:

    Asked whether he would vote against, “anything a Jew brings,” Delhomme replied, “Yes,” during a conversation recorded last March at Village Hall.

    Delhomme later said, “I swear to God. On the application. Any Jew that comes in.”

    The mayor, who is Haitian, said if a Haitian brought the same application as a Jew, he would support it.

    “I’m voting for them,” he said on the recording. “Because they voted for me. They supported me.”

    Oh, and in case people think it’s just him, his predecessor Noramie Jasmin was federally indicted for taking bribes. Oh, and the town Spring Valley is in, Ramapo, had a former Town Supervisor, Christopher St. Lawrence, who’s also under investigation from the Feds for corruption, and who gave out millions in tax breaks for a fucking non-MLB baseball stadium where The Rockland Boulders play. It’s ridiculous.

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      DuddyKravitzThe Noble Renard
      2/24/16 1:07pm

      Sounds like he’d be popular in America.

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      eliezabethThe Noble Renard
      2/24/16 1:15pm

      You know, the thing about Jewish developers is actually understandable. And I say that as a Jewish developer (offices, not residential) The orthodox are really the worst up there and further north in Kiryas Joel.

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    PsonicPsunspotAllie Jones
    2/24/16 1:05pm

    Huh. I assumed that Spring Valley was way in the middle of bumblefuck nowhere. But it’s surprisingly not! Maybe it’s time for a road trip?

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      blazerJ77PsonicPsunspot
      2/24/16 1:09pm

      It’s next to (maybe in?) the Ramapo School District. That area is the Florida of the NYC Metro area

      http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/opi…

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      KomradKickassPsonicPsunspot
      2/24/16 1:10pm

      Damn, so close to being a Jersey story.

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    lysf: captain underpants the shovel warriorAllie Jones
    2/24/16 1:06pm
    GIF
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      Mental Iceberg's Burnerlysf: captain underpants the shovel warrior
      2/24/16 1:12pm

      Omg your new name!

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      lysf: captain underpants the shovel warriorMental Iceberg's Burner
      2/24/16 1:14pm

      i know! divine inspiration!

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    Sid and FinancyAllie Jones
    2/24/16 1:04pm

    I’d let His Honor screw my girlfriend for a generator! (She cheats on me anyway.)

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      gmoatSid and Financy
      2/24/16 1:05pm

      Wait...she’s your girlfriend...damn it!! I AM THE SIDEPIECE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      butcherbakertoiletrymakerSid and Financy
      2/24/16 1:06pm

      My generator has been on back order for months. I’d let him screw me for getting one next week.

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    Gamblor JDAllie Jones
    2/24/16 1:05pm

    “I don’t know this man”

    “You fucked my wife!”

    “Can you narrow it down any more than that?”

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      gramercypoliceGamblor JD
      2/24/16 1:10pm

      “Well, I never said I didn’t know your wife. I mean, cut me a little slack.”

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      sui_generisgramercypolice
      2/24/16 2:55pm

      To be fair, you were made aware that she agreed to participate in “political polling”.

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    norbiznessAllie Jones
    2/24/16 1:10pm

    “Sleep with your wife? Where do you get balls big enough to ask me that?”

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      Cam/ronnorbizness
      2/24/16 1:35pm

      That entire scene was ad-libbed. DeNiro and Peseci were at the top of their game.

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      norbiznessCam/ron
      2/24/16 1:37pm

      You’d think a guy sensitive to being bothered about a steak would be less tenacious in questioning his brother

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeAllie Jones
    2/24/16 1:09pm

    New York has sleepy villages untouched by the Law, where things like this happen unnoticed. When Donald J. Trump is President, he will reach out from the White House—a million tendrils into every village, hamlet, doghouse, outhouse, and boathouse—and he will flip over the tables these villagers are hiding under and expose their corruption. A million pillbugs exposed to the light of the sun, a red-faced, orange sun, Donald J. Trump, and then he is a shoe, Donald J. Trump—a nice, supple Gucci loafer—and he will come down hard on corruption and crime and things that are hidden in the sleepy hollows of our country.

    Donald J. Trump 2016.

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      FusilliJerry╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      2/24/16 1:16pm

      Wouldn’t that be “...reach out from Trump tower....”? He doesn’t like sleeping in a bed that is not his own in his penthouse in NYC. He might commute to the White House if he becomes President.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeFusilliJerry
      2/24/16 1:19pm

      A bed can be moved, and so can a house. Donald J. Trump will put the White House atop Trump Tower and it will be a beacon, and he will be the constant light shining into our homes at all hours.

      Donald J. Trump 2016.

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    HighlySelassieAllie Jones
    2/24/16 1:08pm

    The headline had me thinking he fucked the guy’s wife during the meeting.

    Still a good, fun story, but a bit of a letdown.

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      HaighaAllie Jones
      2/24/16 1:11pm

      I guess the “king” believes in droit de seigneur, so - gross, and that is an ongoing privilege, rather than a one-off.

      One takeaway from the Journal News article is that the Rockand County DA is apparently quite the tool as well. Seems unwilling to really look into some of this guy’s wrongdoing - like misuse of the village employees, etc.

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        lobstrAllie Jones
        2/24/16 1:50pm

        Delhomme then called for a 15 minute recess to help himself to the city’s cookie reserves...

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