What happened between George Longworth & Richard Roberti.
The tale of what happened between George Longworth & Richard Roberti is an interesting story. This was covered in a November 28, 2005 article written up by Rob Masterson for the Westchester Weekly.
This had to do with the Orlandito Rosario case. Richard Roberti had grown on Nodine Hill & had been close to members to Robert Derosario’s family. These are important excerpts in the article done by Rob Masterson, an article that was originally printed in the Westchester Weekly on November 28, 2005. This will give you a clear picture of what went on between Roberti & Longworth.
On January 5, 2000, almost exactly one year after Orlandito's body was discovered along the Saw Mill River Parkway, 347 days after Orlandito's body was recovered from the trash, at about 9:15 a.m.
Richard Roberti was preparing breakfast for his family at his Lanesville, New York, home up in Green County in New York's Catskill Mountains more than one hundred miles from Nodine Hill when he alleges Police Chief George Longworth, Dobbs Ferry Detective Thomas Leahy, Westchester County Police Detective Christopher Calabrese and Westchester County Police Detective Robert Goirdano walked into his house unannounced and sat down at the table with the kids.
Beginning that day and for the next 18 months, Roberti would feel strongly enough that his rights had been violated to fight the charge until its dismissal earlier this year and, in April 2001, to file a lawsuit asking for $30 million in compensatory and punitive damages from Longworth, three other Dobbs Ferry and Westchester County detectives, the village of Dobbs Ferry and, at least for now, Westchester County."
However, before that day of January 5, 2000, was through, Roberti says he would have his house and his life "tossed.". He would be arrested on a criminal weapons charge. Roberti's lawsuit (which has been filed but not yet served) alleges that, since "it is a custom and/or policy of the Village of Dobbs Ferry Police Department, when it comes to the investigation of the Orlandito [Maldonado]Rosario homicide, to use any means necessary to find the murderer of Orlandito [Maldonado-]Rosario without regard to the constitutional rights of any other person," those law enforcement officers invaded the Roberti property without a proper warrant, authorization or identification.
The suit alleges those officers took and have never returned property to the Robertis. The suit alleges those officers detained Roberti against his will. In an affidavit prepared on February 1 of this year for the lawsuit, Roberti states that Longworth and Company rummaged through his home and his personal life with the hope of coercing and/or extorting some kind of information that would implicate the aforementioned Robert DeRosario in the murder of Orlandito Maldonado-Rosario.Throughout that day and for the next 18 months, according to Roberti's suit,
Chief Longworth and/or Dobbs Ferry detectives and/or Westchester County detectives continually demanded Roberti give them information linking DeRosario to the Orlandito's death in exchange for dropping the single gun charge, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, for which they eventually placed him under arrest.
Roberti had apparently failed to renew the license for a gun he had owned for years and, on the fifth day of the new year, found himself five days into illegal gun ownership.
The lawsuit alleges that things at the house got rougher as day progressed into evening. Sometime after 5:30 p.m., he says, after Longworth and his men had been inside the Roberti compound for over eight hours, there was a confrontation.
According to Roberti, "Longworth came back to the table where I was and started yelling at me.
[He said] 'I went over and had a talk with your son. You are a liar and your son is a fucking faggot and he allowed Bobby DeRosario to blow him. Now tell me what I want to know.'"
Another tidbit in the article was that one night, a few weeks ago in June, Roberti discussed his suit with the Weekly. He told us: [Longworth] kept saying to me, "If you tell us the information we want to know"--he assumed I knew something about this case--but he kept saying to me, "We know you know something. We know you know what we want to hear. You gotta tell us what we want to know."
I kept saying to him, "I really don't know what you're talking about.
I live here, they live down there.
I don't know. God forbid if [DeRosario] did something wrong.
He kept saying, "We have the DA in the palm of our hands. If you do what we tell you to do, if you do what we want you to do and help us with this case, whatever went down here today is finished. You'll be totally out of trouble. You'll be wiped out, clean."
In the article it also that Roberti's affidavit states, "The police continued to call me. Chief Longworth and his partner promised me if I helped them they would have the whole thing dropped.
Longworth and his partner kept telling me they had the DA [Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro] in the palm of their hand.
They called me three times a day for over a month.
The first seven days they called everyday three times a day and changed my court date by postponing my appearance date.
They said, 'Do you see that? We had your date changed so you can work with us. I told you we would take care of you, buddy. Right, buddy. We have the DA in the palm of our hand.'
"This is an interesting fact out of Masterson’s article that a civil suit has been filed on behalf of Roberti and his son, Daniel Roberti, in Green County seeking that $30 million in monetary compensation for damages incurred in what is alleged to be Longworth & Company's illegal search of their property, illegal seizure of and subsequent failure to return property, illegal detention of themselves and other family members and "conduct exceed[ing] all reasonable bounds of decency."
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