The Chronicle, via a confidential source, has received a copy of a whistleblower letter filed with the village of Croton-on-Hudson on September 8 by Code Enforcement Officer Thor Snilsberg. The letter was sent the same day that Snilsberg and other village staff received alleged death threats via email.
Given the numerous statements that have been made by village officials claiming that the legal action against Lenny Amicola for refusing to take down his Trump display was just part of routine code enforcement and had nothing to do with free speech, we are publishing this letter in the public interest and pursuant to the public’s right to know what its government is actually doing.
We want to stress that Thor Snilsberg was not the source who gave us this letter. It appears that after Snilsberg sent his complaint, it was circulated more widely than he intended and thus eventually made its way to the Chronicle. The fact that the letter was already circulating in the village, even if only in a limited and yet uncontrolled fashion, also weighed heavily in our decision to publish it now.
In the letter, Snilsberg rejected the contention that the action against Amicola was just a routine code enforcement matter, and listed four ways in which it differed from the 17 other business signs that he was dealing with.
Asked to comment, Snilsberg provided us the following statement:
“I am disappointed that my confidential whistleblower letter was leaked without my permission. At the...
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