$25,000 Reward Offered for Arrest, Conviction of O’Brien, Sherwood
By Robin Vinci at January 24, 2024 | 7:29 pm | Print
Anyone who knows information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of Mayor Tim O’Brien or Deputy Chief of Staff Phil Sherwood are being offered a $25,000 reward from Taxpayers and Associates, affiliated with Farmington Hills, in an attempt to “clean up City of a corrupt and dirty administration”.
“The reward is for anything illegal or showing the betrayal of public trust that will lead to their arrest or conviction. We will gladly pay $25,000 to that person,” said Sam Zherka, owner of Farmington Hills. “The reason we are doing this is because New Britain is a poor town where everyone is struggling and there is a 14 percent unemployment rate. There is hard working people and the politicians that are currently there are bilking it. They are lying to the people. They are stealing tax funds. The schools in New Britain have a lack of paper and products and books and school supplies, yet the mayor is misappropriating money and doling out no-bid contracts and hiring his cronies. Information we got from the inside shows he is using millions of dollars from other departments to cover up losses and deficiencies in his administration. And he is lying about it to the public.”
The group says the only way to do away with a corrupt administration like this is by digging up dirt and bringing men like these to their knees.
“Basically we need to evict them from City Hall and bring some light to a City that has been struggling for many, many years,” said Zherka. “For the seven years we have been involved in the City, this is absolutely the worst administration we have ever seen. We are from New York and there is corruption in every City. But, this administration is blatantly corrupt.”
Zherka, said he wants people in New Britain to understand it is the residents’ City. The mayor works for residents and the taxpayers.
“We are his bosses. If our employees gets caught stealing and continue to act the way O’Brien and Sherwood have been acting and abusing the rights and tax dollars of the City, its taxpayers and its residents, we as their bosses have every right to complain and fire them,” said Zherka. “People need to start standing up and taking a look at what is going on in the City. They are depriving every citizen in that City of what is rightfully theirs.”
Zherka, who owns the newspaper The Westchester Guardian, said “people should use the US Constitution, which was written to restrain government from abuses.”
Zherka said there are federal and state laws that grant taxpayers the right to sue City officials.
“Taxpayers have the right to bring lawsuits against politicians and government officials under the false claims acts and under qui tam lawsuits and taxpayer lawsuits,” said Zherka. “If they are stealing dollars and doing illegal activities, we as taxpayers have a right to sue them.”
Zherka said he brought a case in Aug. of 2012 against the chief investigator for the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office.
“We caught him stealing some money and, as taxpayers, forced him to pay back all the money. As of Dec. 30, 2012 he has paid back a substantial amount of the money we caught him stealing,” said Zherka. “Tim O’Brien, Sherwood, members of his administration and members of the council will be on the receiving end, over the next 6 months to a year, of many of those lawsuits for anything we catch them doing that we deem unethical, illegal and alike.”
Anyone who has any information is asked to send it to: The New Britain City Journal, PO Box 2111, New Britain, CT 06050 and it will be forwarded to Taxpayers and Associates affiliated with Farmington Hills.
