The sensational Orange County tale began to unravel after a local newspaper started digging
reported Wednesday that the manager of the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, the supposed location where 15 of the veterans were staying, disputed Toney-Finch’s claim and said there were no veterans housed at the hotel or being forced to leave. The manager, who did not wish to be named, also cast doubt on a receipt that was produced, which supposedly showed a $37,800 payment to the hotel for the migrants’ rooms.
The manager of the hotel, which is currently housing some migrants, also said she was unaware of Toney-Finch or her organization, refuting a prior claim of Toney-Finch’s that she had an ongoing agreement with the hotel to book rooms for veterans with her credit card on file.on Friday indicated that the lie went even further. More than a dozen men were recruited
at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to pretend to be veterans for the ruse and were promised “$200 along with food and alcohol.” According to one of the men, who wished to remain anonymous, the group met with Toney-Finch at a diner in LaGrange, where she explained that they would be attending a meeting with officials and told them to pretend to be veterans. Those who didn’t want to give answers about the specifics of their service were told to say they were “too traumatized to talk about it.”
Assemblymember Brian Maher, a Republican legislator who publicized the story, admitted that he was taken in by Toney-Finch, and said he was “devastated and disheartened” in an interview with the
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