The Village Trustees of Southampton are livid with the town’s mayor — claiming he lied to the press in a bid to prevent their choice for police chief from getting the post.
Former NYPD inspector Anthony Carter had been selected to replace the ritzy enclave’s “million dollar cop” with the backing of the trustees.
But he rejected the job — and the $225,000 salary that comes with it — after Mayor Jesse Warren said in an interview with The Post earlier this month that Carter wasn’t qualified because “we wanted a candidate who had taken and passed the [chief’s] exam.”
Now, the village board is revolting against the mayor, claiming in a statement Monday that he “made several materially false statements” to the press about Carter, who is the current Deputy Police Commissioner in Suffolk County.
“After recruiting Commissioner Carter for the position and advising him that he would support his candidacy, the Mayor not only voted against his appointment but made several materially false statements about his reasons for so,” the trustees said.
“Mayor Warren continued with this reprehensible conduct by authoring an Op Ed piece in the Southampton Press that doubled down on his false narrative. He repeated some of the same falsehoods in an article that ran recently in the NY Post.”
A person familiar with the hiring process said the mayor’s claims that he opposed Carter because of the test didn’t add up, and insisted that Carter was more than willing to take the exam.
“Not wanting to...
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