The Pattern: Three Donors, Three Approvals, And The Donations Nobody Else Got.
Three Cornwall residents wanted three different things from town government. Each one wrote Josh Wojehowski a campaign check on the way in. Two of the three had never written a political check to anyone before — and never wrote one again. The third donates regularly. To Josh, exactly once.
The Sands-Ring story was about a contract that did not match what the public was told. This one is about who paid into the political accounts of the people who signed off — and when, relative to what they got.
Cornwall Cricket Club president Nick Patel gave $100 to Wojehowski and $50 to Councilwoman Michael-Razi in September 2021. Two years later, Wojehowski unilaterally authorized the field alteration his own 2021 board vote had forbidden. The only political donations on Patel's record.
Vivien Collens gave Wojehowski $50 in 2023 and $250 in 2025. The only candidate she has ever donated to. A year-long, seven-sculpture exhibition of her work was sited around Cornwall in 2024.
Sands-Ring co-sponsor Jeannette Redden gave Wojehowski $250 on July 28, 2025 — the day after Collens did. Redden donates to many candidates. To Josh? Once.
The Cricket Field: Voted "No Changes." Then The Changes Got Made Anyway.
The Cornwall Cricket Club — whose president is Nick Patel — has played on the public field at Laurel Crest Park (41 Harold Avenue) since 2020. In 2021, the Town Board — Supervisor Richard "Dick" Randazzo, Councilwoman Virginia Scott, and then-Councilman Joshua Wojehowski — formally approved the cricket club's use of Laurel Crest, on one explicit condition put on the record: "no changes would be made to the field for cricket ball." Wojehowski was on that vote.
Between the June 2021 Democratic primary — which Wojehowski won 75.9% to 23.9% (Mid Hudson News) — and the November general against Randazzo, the New York State Board of Elections shows two political contributions in Patel's name. They are the only ones on his record. Not before. Not after.
| Date | Amount | Donor | Donor Address | Recipient Committee | Election Cycle | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/05/2021 | $100.00 | Nick Patel | 33 Manor Drive, Cornwall NY 12518 |
Wojehowski For Cornwall — ID# 7718 | 2021 State/Local 32-Day Pre-General | County · Orange · Cornwall |
| 09/21/2021 | $50.00 | Nick Patel | 33 Manor Drive, Cornwall NY 12518 |
Rokhsha 2021 — ID# 144491 | 2021 State/Local 32-Day Pre-General | County · Orange · Cornwall |
Wojehowski won the November general too. He took office in January 2022. The "no changes" condition Wojehowski himself had voted for remained the board's standing position: never rescinded, never reopened. In mid-May 2023, sixteen months into his term and without notice to the full Town Board, Wojehowski authorized Buildings & Grounds to put fresh dirt on the cricket pitch — exactly the alteration the 2021 board had voted against. Councilwoman Virginia Scott was not consulted. She posted publicly:
Supervisor Wojehowski took it upon himself to make the changes this week without the knowledge or approval of the Town Board. He told me via email today that I do not have the authority to be part of the day to day operations. He made a unilateral decision without Town Board approval which is voted on by the entire Town Board. It's Town property and to my knowledge, not one of us approved this alteration to Laurel Crest.— Councilwoman Virginia Scott · Living in Cornwall, NY · May 16, 2023
A 2021 vote against changing the field, with Wojehowski's own name on it. Two donations from the cricket club's president weeks before the election that made Wojehowski Supervisor. A unilateral 2023 authorization, by that same Wojehowski, to make exactly the alteration he had voted against. One Supervisor breaking, by his own signature, the rule he himself had once voted for.
The Sculpture Trail: First Political Check Of Her Life. To Josh.
Vivien Abrams Collens is a Cornwall-on-Hudson sculptor. By her own materials, she has focused on public sculpture since 2017. In September 2023, the New York State Board of Elections records her first political contribution: $50 to Wojehowski For Cornwall. Not her first to Wojehowski. Her first to anyone.
| Date | Amount | Donor | Donor Address | Recipient Committee | Election Cycle | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/10/2023 | $50.00 | Vivien Collens | 196 Mountain Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson NY 12520 |
Wojehowski For Cornwall — ID# 7718 | 2023 State/Local 32-Day Pre-General | County · Orange · Cornwall |
| 07/27/2025 | $250.00 | Vivien Collens | 196 Mountain Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson NY 12520 |
Wojehowski For Cornwall — ID# 7718 | 2025 State/Local 32-Day Pre-General | County · Orange · Cornwall |
The year after that 2023 donation, the Greater Cornwall Chamber of Commerce hosted "Collens in Cornwall" — a year-long public exhibition of seven large outdoor sculptures sited throughout the town. In July 2025, Collens wrote a second check to Wojehowski: five times the size of the first one. Same recipient. Still the only candidate she has ever given to.
The Earthwork: Two Co-Sponsors. Two Checks. One Day Apart.
The Sands-Ring "Storm King Decision" earthwork is not Collens's project alone. Public materials list Collens and Jeannette Redden as co-sponsors. Both stood to benefit from town approval. Both wrote a check to Wojehowski's campaign within 48 hours of each other in late July 2025.
| Date | Amount | Donor | Donor Address | Recipient Committee | Election Cycle | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/28/2025 | $250.00 | Jeannette Redden | 60 Deer Hill Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson NY 12520 |
Wojehowski For Cornwall — ID# 7718 | 2025 State/Local 32-Day Pre-General | County · Orange · Cornwall |
Redden's one Wojehowski check is dated July 28, 2025 — the day after her co-sponsor on the Sands-Ring earthwork made her $250 contribution. Seven months later, on February 24, 2026, the Town Board approved the earthwork 5–0. Three months after that, the town signed an Artwork Exhibition Agreement that bound Cornwall taxpayers to fencing, lighting, cameras, police patrols, and promotion — the opposite of what residents were told on the record. (Background: "Caught Lying About Sands-Ring.")
The Pattern, In Three Numbers
Two of three donors have no other political contributions on record, in any year, for any candidate, at any level — just the ones tied to a Cornwall decision favorable to them. The third has many other contributions; her one to Wojehowski is dated the day after her partner on a town project gave hers. Three donors. Three favorable actions. The donations are not the story. The fact that, for two of them, these are the only political donations they have ever made is.
Two of three donors have never given a campaign dollar to anyone else, ever. The third has given to almost everyone — except Josh — until the moment she needed Josh.
When This Hits, Watch The Walk-Back.
Cornwall Truth predicts two lines will be deployed in the days after this story is read.
"$50, $100, $250 are not bribes. These are small donations from civically engaged neighbors."
True. New York election law does not treat $250 as a quid pro quo, and this article does not claim one. What the record does plainly show is that for two of the three donors, these are the only political contributions of their adult lives — and they all preceded a town action favorable to the donor.
"The artist was always going to reimburse the town for the equipment and labor. The crew was on the property anyway."
The executed Artwork Exhibition Agreement contains no clause requiring the artist or Newburgh Antique Gallery LLC to reimburse Cornwall for town equipment, town personnel, town gas, or town materials. A reimbursement check produced now, after photographs of the skid steer, the dump truck, and the trencher are already in the public record, is not a contract term. It is a press release written backwards to make a problem disappear.
If you hear either line in the next two weeks, you are not hearing accountability. You are hearing damage control written after the lie was caught.
Three Cornwall residents. Three things requested of the Town of Cornwall. Three sets of political contributions to Joshua Wojehowski, each preceding the favorable town action. Two of those three residents have no other political contributions on record, anywhere, ever. The third has many — and exactly one to Josh, on the day after her partner on a town project gave hers. This is not Cornwall's "follow the money" story. This is its "follow the only money" story.
And This Is Only What We Caught.
Three checks — $50, $100, $250. Three small asks of the town. We caught the pattern because the items were small enough to see: a free state database, a field with an address, a councilwoman with a Facebook account.
Cornwall is about to vote on a rezoning that will swing parcel values by millions of dollars. Those conversations are much harder to track. What are we missing?
If $100 produced what this story shows on a cricket pitch, ask what is being signed in the rooms where the dollars are big enough to matter and the records are not free to download.
If the pattern shows up where you can see it, it lives where you can't.