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From: Laurie Ortolano
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2022 11:25 AM
To: Board of Aldermen; Board of Assessors
Ce: Graham, Donna
Subject: A letter for the BOA packet
Attachments: Intradepartment Communication on Turgiss_Kleiner Police Investigation.pdf; DRA
Sanctions Turgiss Duhamel Revd July 2022. pdf
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Good Morning Donna,
Could you please put this in the next Board packet under communications,
The Last Man Standing (in the Nashua Assessing Office} Greg Turgiss
Some of you may remember the story of the Private Investigator (PI) hired to track a Nashua
Assessor, Greg Turgiss, whereabouts while performing assessing work. The result of this
investigation showed that the assessor was sleeping at a railtrail head and in a parking lot behind a
hotel all while signing out on a Assessing Department white board that he was doing field work.
It was discovered during the investigation that more than ten years prior the assessor had two
incidents involving the use of city computers to view pornography, confessing to spending hours on
the City computers viewing images. Despite the repeat violation, he remained employed.
One would think that the PI report would have been the nail in the coffin, but not in Nashua. Scott
Painter UAW Union Rep., Director Kleiner, Mayor Donchess and the Nashua Police Department
all rallied behind Mr. Turgiss.
Mr. Painter represented Greg Turgiss but also the office worker who identified problems with Mr.
Turgiss’ work logs. This was a major conflict. He encouraged Ms. Walley to leave and back our
sleepy porn guy. Eventually, Ms. Walley was fired by Ms. Kleiner and ultimately settled with the
City for $100,000.
Ms. Kleiner thought Mr. Turgiss’ lying on the white board was just fine, but to keep his lies more
private, she had the white board removed from the office, The Mayor wanted to promote Mr.
Turgiss to a working Assessing Chief for the City of Nashua. The less you know, the higher you
go.
The Police Department conducted an investigation addressing potential criminal charges for
mileage fraud against Mr. Turgiss and witness tampering against Ms. Kleiner. The Police were not
capable of performing an unbiased investigation of “their own.” The Mayor controls their budget
and we all remember the Mayor’s power move to take control of the Police Commissioners,
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