Builders Complete $22M Expansion At Thornwood School In Record Time

A White Plains-based company is crediting an innovative design technique for its being able to build a dormitory at a private boarding school in Mount Pleasant in record time. Scully Construction LLC said it had a very tight deadline for the $22 million expansion project -- a 250-bed student residence -- at the EF International Academy in the hamlet of Thornwood.

Innovative Design Enabled Scully Construction to Meet Tight Schedule for New 250-Bed Student Dorm

Dec. 29, 2016 - PRLog -- Last September, 250 high school students from around the world moved into a new 55,000- square- foot residence building for EF Academy located in Thornwood, NY. For White Plains-based Scully Construction LLC-which built the state-of-the- art, 250-bed, four story structure- the project, located on property previously owned by the Legionnaires of Christ and IBM-presented a very tight schedule challenge.

Thornwood Man Among Five Charged In $33M Mortgage Fraud Conspiracy

Five people, including one from White Plains and one from Yonkers, have been indicted in a $33 million mortgage fraud conspiracy in Westchester and Putnam counties, according to Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The five defendants -- Bruce Lewis, 54 and Jacqueline Graham, 47, who are both still at large, Anthony Vigna, 59, of Thornwood, Rocco Cermele, 54, of Yonkers, and Paula Guadagno, 58, of White Plains -- are accused of committing bank fraud, wire fraud, and mail fraud in connection with a debt-elimination scheme to defraud homeowners and banks, Bharara said.