Conn. Gov. Ned Lamont had thousands of trees, bushes ‘illegally’ cut behind $7.5M home

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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont had thousands of trees and bushes illegally chopped down his sprawling Greenwich home — contempt publically championing a statewide effort to works much conifers, according to angry neighbors and different sources.

The able 70-year-old Democrat was hit pinch a citation for cutting down much than 180 trees successful a protected wetland area to allegedly get a amended position of a pond from his $7.6 cardinal abode, CT Insider reported Tuesday.

"[It’s a] chainsaw massacre," onshore usage lawyer John Tesei, who represents adjacent spot owners INCT LLC, said according to nan outlet.

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"I’ve ne'er seen anything, overall, for illustration this, ever."

"Our clients are profoundly disturbed and devastated," he said astatine a March 25 wetlands meeting.

Lamont allegedly hired workers to axe nan beloved sweetener maples, beech trees and pignut hickories without permits connected respective acres down his seven-bedroom manse successful early November, sources from nan city’s Inland Wetlands and Watercourse Agency told nan paper.

Some of nan trees were 40 feet gangly — and a captious portion of nan delicate ecosystem connected nan wooded banks of a mini river, nan sources said.

Fred Jacobsen, a spot head for privately-owned wood lands successful Greenwich’s Midcountry, heard a chainsaw buzzing adjacent nan governor’s location connected Nov. 9 and called police, he said.

"It was a coordinated demolition of nan full ecosystem successful that area," Jacobsen said astatine nan meeting.

The saw-wielding workers besides crossed a spot line, "trespassing" onto onshore owned by INCT LLC, a Delaware-based company, staffers pinch nan wetland agency said successful documents.

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"The Lamonts look to beryllium nan ones that hired nan contractor," Beth Evans, nan town’s head of biology affairs who advises nan wetland agency, told CT Insider.

Lamont, his neighbors nan Viks and nan Ashton Drive Association were each deed pinch citations for wetland  violations successful Greenwich, according to nan paper.

"It’s nary coincidence that nan cutting opened up a very wide position of nan reservoir for nan individual artistic use and viewing enjoyment of 2 dwellings, Gov. Lamont and nan Viks," said Peter Thorén, an executive of INCT LLC said astatine nan meeting.

He called nan hacked trees an "illegal invasion."

Lamont’s $7.6 cardinal location successful Greenwich, Conn. ((Google Maps)(Getty Images))

Greenwich’s wetland association yet issued a cease-and-correct bid connected Nov. 28, which was sent to nan Lamonts, nan Viks and nan Ashton Drive Association. It wasn’t instantly clear if nan leader would beryllium charged a fine.

No criminal charges were revenge complete the alleged trespassing, nan Greenwich Police told nan paper.

But nan conifer-slashing flies successful nan look of an environmentally friends scheme nan politician announced past April to works thousands of trees successful dense municipality parts of nan state.

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At nan time, Lamont sought a portion of nan $1 cardinal successful national backing for municipality forestry programs allocated by nan Inflation Reduction Act, commissioner for nan Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Katie Dykes, said successful April 2023.

Locals now want nan greenery-chopping politician to switch nan dormant trees and shrubs.

"The perpetrators should reconstruct nan full area arsenic intimately arsenic imaginable to nan measurement it was," Jacobsen said.

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Lamont, a erstwhile cablegram tv entrepreneur and Harvard University grad, raked successful much than $54 cardinal successful yearly income successful 2021, according to nan CT Mirror.

His 2.5-acre abode astatine 4 Ashton Drive is weighted astatine $7.57 million, according to redfin.com.

"This is simply a conflict betwixt nan homeowners relation and 1 of nan neighbors," a rep for Lamont told The Post Wednesday. She claims nan HOA was fixed nan citation, not nan governor.

"The relation and nan neighbors are moving it out," Lamont told CT Insider.

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A rep from nan Inland Wetlands and Watercourse Agency declined to comment, saying nan matter would beryllium discussed astatine a nationalist proceeding Monday afternoon.

The conifer conflict echos a akin conflict that collapsed retired successful June complete 32 chopped trees successful New Jersey. In that case, nan culprit was fined $13,000.