The former deputy town supervisor of Greece steps down one day before being charged with a felony

Greece, New York – Just one day before the indictment against a former Greece deputy town supervisor who was charged with a felony was released, the supervisor of the town announced her retirement.

Michelle Marini, the Town of Greece’s current director of constituent services, is charged with surreptitiously tracking a town resident through the use of a GPS tracker. In addition, she faces charges of grand larceny and government corruption over her employment with the town, which she had from 2014 to December 2023.

Marini is named as a defendant in three federal cases brought by former Greece employees in addition to those accusations.

Maureen Bass, an attorney, is defending a number of people who have sued Marini and other Greece municipal officials.

Former Greece Police Chief Drew Forsythe faces a DUI charge in 2021. Former Greece Deputy Police Chief Casey Voekel claims Greece Town Supervisor Bill Reilich and Marini of trying to conceal the charge in a notice of claim.

“We received an interview that was done with Marini shortly after the accident that was referred to the district attorney’s office,” Bass said. “We found that several of the statements that were made in that interview were inconsistent with what we understood to be the facts.”

Jared Rene, a former Greece Police Sergeant who was the department’s public information officer at the time of Forsythe’s crash, is also represented by Bass.

“He has serious concerns with the public messages that were being sent out by the Town of Greece shortly after the chief’s accident, and how those messages were manufactured in such a way to downplay the accident and what really happened,” Bass explained.

Marini is charged in the indictment with stealing services valued at over $1,000 related to work done at her previous residence and two additional Monroe County residences.

Another customer of Bass’s, Robert Johnson, a former employee of Town of Greece, said he was forced to provide Marini and Reilich with numerous services for which he was not paid.

“You’ve got people who are working with you who are elected officials who maybe aren’t doing the right thing,” Bass said. “When does the Town of Greece say we have to take a closer look at this?”

Marini’s resignation was announced in a statement issued by the Town of Greece on Wednesday night. It says this:

We are aware of the indictment filed yesterday against former Town of Greece employee Michelle Marini. Mrs. Marini retired from the Town of Greece effective as of Monday, June 24, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. The Town has and will continue to cooperate fully with the District Attorney’s investigation into this matter.