In 2007 Leonard Meyerson was the Westchester County Deputy Commissioner of Environmental Health. In a July 2007 email sent to Health Commissioner Joshua Lipsman, Commissioner Meyerson itemized the severe health threats that had plagued Hen Island for years. Included in his correspondence was detailed information regarding three possible remedies island residents should undertake.

A few weeks later, Mr. Meyerson did an about face, and issued letters that were then sent to Judge O Bellantoni which stated that after a number of inspections of Hen Island, there were no health threats to residents or community members on the mainland.

As a result of Meyerson’s letters, Judge Bellantoni dismissed the NYS Supreme court case entitled Ray Tartaglione v. Kuder Island Colony. In the fall of 2009, Commissioner Meyerson was terminated from his position in Westchester County government.