WHITE PLAINS – Federal authorities have charged the owner of a landscaping business with bribery and bid rigging and a former assistant general foreman with the Town of Cortlandt with the bribery scheme.
Authorities allege that from 2018 to February 2020, Glenn Griffin, 53, of Cortlandt Manor, owner of Griffin’s Landscaping Corporation, and Robert Dyckman, 51, of Verplanck, the former Cortlandt town employee, engaged in an unauthorized dumping scheme.
Dyckman allegedly gave Griffin and his employees unauthorized access to Arlo Lane, a Cortlandt facility, to dump hundreds of large truckloads of unauthorized materials such as thick concrete, cement with rebar, large rocks, and soil.
Based on estimates provided by third-party vendors, the Town of Cortlandt estimates it will cost between $600,000 to $1.5 million to remove the materials.
In exchange for access to Arlo Lanes, Griffin allegedly gave Dyckman cash bribes, firewood,…
