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MUST READ TREE REMOVAL !!! IS THIS TRUE ? I GOT THIS LETTER IN MY MAIL BOX LAST NIGHT

Attention Long beach residents, this is a very important message to address at tonight's city hall meeting I am writing this letter anonymously as I fear losing my job and I am a single parent of 2 children and work in city hall. As a Long Beach resident for my entire life and an employee of the city for over 5 years I have held my tongue for many situations among the department I work in with fear of repercussions of losing my job. But this is the 1 time I cannot hold back, I cannot watch what is going on with the UN needed tree removal, I am writing this letter to expose the truth about the tree removal. I want to make clear I have absolutely no motive or agenda, other then I feel the truth must be exposed, I have wrestled with this for a few weeks and was pushed over the edge upon coming home from work today and put on the TV which automatically was on channel news 12, more importantly the 1st segment that came on was about the current tree removal, it was then that I saw a lady so upset she had made a comment about her kids crying and that the new trees the city will plant will grow by the time her young children have died. Besides the fact I do not know of any plans the city has to plant new ones, (I can be wrong) I just haven't heard that. So here it is. the city says "they had arborist do 200 point inspection on each tree" has any one resident seen these "arborist " checking the 200 plus trees they have cut so far ? Answer NO Well maybe the relationship of the cities "arborist" and the city "contracted tree remover" and city official Joe Febrizio should all be a question or how did "contracted tree remover" get this contract? I mean they are from Brooklyn; do we not have any tree removal companies around here? Well maybe the "arborist" and "the contracted tree remover" (Dragonetti brothers tree removal) met while the owner of the company Vincent Dragonetti or as he is known in the Gambino Crime Family "vincent skinny Vinny Dragonetti" or” Vinny marbles” during community service. In April of 13 when he was ordered to do 200 hours of tree removal free for Hurricane Sandy relief, this was for a 2008 arrest for extorting Money from ACE & VMS and Duramax construction to obtain lucrative city contracts! Vincent Dragonetti is even caught on FBI wire taps saying to 1 of the developers "I don't know anyone who gets hurt unless they have to get hurt” How does the city of Long Beach hire or award a contract like this to a known mafia contractor? What kind of due diligence was done when hiring the tree removal company? Well I think we know the answer to this! So here is how it works Dragonetti gets paid for each tree cut down, the more trees they cut down the more money they get paid! So of course the connected "arborist" is saying each tree is dead, even though they are in full bloom and vibrant! and this is FEMA money ear marked for "tree removal" if the city does not use it all the money they asked FEMA for on a particular project then have to give it back, which in turn makes FEMA question other sectors of FEMA money that was asked for but perhaps not used (so I hear at work) leaving the city open for a possible audit from FEMA, and LB does not want that So why does the city have a reputed and known Mafia contractor and violent offender (refer to Google apparently served time for violent mafia crimes) as the "contracted tree remover"? Well I think from here the residents can figure out the rest, I hope this was helpful to everyone, I feel I had a moral responsibility to report this as I cannot watch the destruction of our city by corrupt and greed.

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